1、大学英语六级分类模拟题 371 及答案解析(总分：100.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、Reading Comprehensio(总题数：0，分数：0.00)Exceptional children are different in some significant way from others of the same age. For these children to develop to their full adult potential, their education must be adapted to those differences. Although we focus
2、 on the needs of exceptional children, we find ourselves describing their environment as well. While the leading actor on the stage captures our attention, we are aware of the importance of the supporting players and the scenery of the play itself. Both the family and the society in which exceptiona
3、l children live are often the key to their growth and development. And it is in the public schools that we find the full expression of society“s understandingthe knowledge, hopes, and fears that are passed on to the next generation. Education in any society is a mirror of that society. In that mirro
4、r we can see the strengths, the weaknesses, the hopes, the prejudices, and the central values of the culture itself. The great interest in exceptional children shown in public education over the past three decades indicates the strong feeling in our society that all citizens, whatever their special
5、conditions, deserve the opportunity to fully develop their capabilities. “All men are created equal.“ We“ve heard it many times, but it still has important meaning for education in a democratic society. Although the phrase was used by this country“s founders to denote equality before the law, it has
6、 also been interpreted to mean equality of opportunity. That concept implies educational opportunity for all childrenthe right of each child to receive help in learning to the limits of his or her capacity, whether that capacity be small or great. Recent court decisions have confirmed the right of a
7、ll childrendisabled or notto an appropriate education, and have ordered that public schools take the necessary steps to provide that education. In response, schools are modifying their programs, adapting instruction to children who are exceptional, to those who cannot profit substantially from regul
8、ar programs.（分数：20.00）(1).What is the purpose for the author to cite the example of stage in paragraph 2?（分数：4.00）A.To show those exceptional children are more easily influenced than normal children.B.To indicate those exceptional children have great potentials.C.To identify all men are born to be e
9、qual.D.To illustrate the importance of environment such as family and society.(2).Why does public pay much attention to exceptional education?（分数：4.00）A.Exceptional education is a part of compulsory education.B.The belief that exceptional children should develop their potentials as well.C.Exceptiona
10、l education has been underestimated for a long time.D.Exceptional education is a reflection of society.(3).Which one of the following actions has NOT been taken to facilitate exceptional education?（分数：4.00）A.Courts have confirmed the right for exceptional children to receive education.B.Governments
11、have made policies to protect exceptional education.C.Schools are forced by courts to take actions to offer education for exceptional children.D.Schools have appropriated programs and instruction to satisfy the need of exceptional children.(4).The word “substantially“ in the paragraph 4 is closest i
12、n meaning to _.（分数：4.00）A.stunninglyB.generallyC.adequatelyD.fundamentally(5).What is the main idea of this passage?（分数：4.00）A.The necessity of adapting education to exceptional children.B.The specialty of exceptional children.C.The introduction of education programs.D.The responsibilities of govern
13、ment for those exceptional children.The close relationship between poetry and music scarcely needs to be argued. Both are aural modes which employ rhythm, rime and pitch as major devices; to those the one adds linguistic meaning, connotation and various traditional figures, and the other can add, at
14、 least in theory, all of these plus harmony, counterpoint and orchestration techniques. In English the two are closely bound historically. Anglo-Saxon heroic poetry seems certainly to have been read or chanted to a harpist“s accompaniment; the verb used in Beowulf for such a performance, the Finn ep
15、isode, is singan, to sing, and the noun gyd, to song. A major source of the lyric tradition in English poetry is the songs of the troubadours. The distance between the gyd in Beowulf and the songs of “Lenoard Cohen“ or “Bob Dylan“ may seem great, but is one of time rather than aesthetics. The lyric
16、poem as a literary work and the lyrics of a popular song are both still essentially the same thing: poetry. Whether the title of the work be “Gerontion“ or “Hound Dog“, our criteria for evaluating the work must remain the same. The most important prerequisite for both a significant poem and signific
17、ant lyrics in a popular song is that the writer be faithful to his own personal vision or to the vision of the poem he is writing. Skill and craft for writing poetry are indeed necessary because these are the only means by which a poet can preserve the integrity of this vision in the poem. A poet mu
18、st not, either because of lack of skill or because of worship of popularity, wealth, or critical acclaim, go outside of his own or his own poem“s visionon pain of writing only the derivative or the trivial. Historically, the writers and singers of the lyrics of popular songs have seemed often to be
19、incapable of personal vision, and to have confused both originality and morality with a servile compliance to popular taste.（分数：20.00）(1).What is the relationship between poetry and music according to the passage?（分数：4.00）A.They are separated from each other.B.Whether their relationship is close or
20、not is under debate.C.They are in an intimate relationship.D.Their relationship in not close enough.(2).What does “the other“ (Line 3, Para.1) refer to?（分数：4.00）A.Music.B.Poetry.C.Rhythm.D.Figure.(3).Which one of the following is NOT TRUE according to the passage?（分数：4.00）A.The songs of troubadours
21、can be applied as lyric in poetry.B.Beowulfhas been chanted by people with harpist.C.Poems and songs are basically same.D.The major difference of gyd inBeowulfand the songs lies in aesthetics instead of time.(4).The word “prerequisite“ in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to _.（分数：4.00）A.prescriptio
22、nB.premiseC.preferenceD.prediction(5).What is the major difference between an excellent lyrics and a popular song according to the passage?（分数：4.00）A.Most writers of popular songs are not loyal to himself but to outside world.B.The materials and content.C.Excellent lyrics have implied meanings.D.Pop
23、ular songs lack of orchestration techniques.That experiences influence subsequent behaviour is evidence of an obvious but nevertheless remarkable activity called remembering. Learning could not occur without the function popularly named memory. Constant practice has such an effect on memory as to le
24、ad to skilful performance on the piano, to recitation of a poem, and even to reading and understanding these words. So-called intelligent behaviour demands memory, remembering being a primary requirement for reasoning. The ability to solve any problem or even to recognize that a problem exists depen
25、ds on memory. Typically, the decision to cross a street is based on remembering many earlier experiences. Practice (or review)tends to build and maintain memory for a task or for any learned material. Over a period of no practice, what has been learned tends to be forgotten; and the adaptive consequ
26、ences may not seem obvious. Yet, dramatic instances of sudden forgetting can seem to be adaptive. In this sense, the ability to forget can be interpreted to have survived through a process of natural selection in animals. Indeed, when one“s memory of an emotionally painful experience lead to serious
27、 anxiety, forgetting may produce relief. Nevertheless, an evolutionary interpretation might make it difficult to understand how the commonly gradual process of forgetting survived natural selection. In thinking about the evolution of memory together with all its possible aspects, it is helpful to co
28、nsider what would happen if memories failed to fade. Forgetting clearly aids orientation in time, since old memories weaken and the .new tend to stand out, providing clues for inferring duration. Without forgetting, adaptive ability would suffer, for example, learned behaviour that might have been c
29、orrected a decade ago may no longer be. Cases are recorded of people who (by ordinary standards)forgot so little that their everyday activities were full of confusion. This forgetting seems to serve that survival of the individual and the species. Another line of thought assumes a memory storage sys
30、tem of limited capacity that provides adaptive flexibility specifically through forgetting. In this view, continual adjustments are made between learning or memory storage (input) and forgetting (output). Indeed, there is an evidence that the rate at which individuals forget is directly related to h
31、ow much they have learned. Such data offers gross support of contemporary models of memory that assume an input-output balance.（分数：20.00）(1).The word “recitation“ in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to _.（分数：4.00）A.repetitionB.reputationC.memorizationD.recreation(2).What should we do in order to re
32、main remembering?（分数：4.00）A.Keep healthy.B.Stay young at heart.C.Practice and review.D.Keep learning.(3).Which one of the following is not an advantage of forgetting?（分数：4.00）A.Forgetting is able to relieve ourselves.B.Forgetting could enhance our adaptive ability.C.Forgetting is a response to learn
33、ing.D.Forgetting makes us grateful for what we have now.(4).What can we infer from the last paragraph?（分数：4.00）A.The relationship of forgetfulness and learning is not static and fixed.B.Memory is a compensation for forgetting.C.The capacity of a memory storage system is limited.D.There is little rel
34、ation between forgetting and learning.(5).What is the proper title for this passage?（分数：4.00）A.The Advantages of AdaptionB.The Function of ForgetfulnessC.The Side Effect of LearningD.The More You Experience, the More You Will ForgetAmericans today don“t place a very high value on intellect. Our hero
35、es are athletes, entertainers, and entrepreneurs, not scholars. Even our schools are where we send our children to get a practical educationnot to pursue knowledge for the sake of knowledge. Symptoms of pervasive anti-intellectualism in our schools aren“t difficult to find. “Schools have always been
36、 in a society where practice is more important than intellect“, says education writer Diane Ravitch. “Schools could be a counterbalance“. Ravitch“s latest book, Left Back: A Century of Failed School Reforms , traces the roots of anti-intellectualism in our schools, concluding they are anything but a
37、 counterbalance to the American distaste for intellectual pursuits. But they could and should be. Encouraging kids to reject the life of the mind leaves them vulnerable to exploitation and control. Without the ability to think critically, to defend their ideas and understand the ideas of others, the
38、y cannot fully participate in our democracy. Continuing along this path, says writer Earl Shorris, “We will become a second-rate country. We will have a less civil society“. “Intellect is resented as a form. of power or privilege“, writes historian and Professor Richard Hofstadter in Anti-Intellectu
39、alism in American Life , a Pulitzer Prize winning book on the roots of anti-intellectualism in U.S. politics, religion, and education. From the beginning of our history, says Hofstadter, our democratic and populist urges have driven us to reject anything that smells of elitism. Practicality, common
40、sense, and native intelligence have been considered more noble qualities than anything you could learn from a book. Ralph Waldo Emerson and other Transcendentalist philosophers thought schooling and rigorous book learning put unnatural restraints on children, “We are shut up in schools and college r
41、ecitation rooms for 10 or 15 years and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing“. Mark Twain“s Huckleberry Finn exemplified American anti-intellectualism. Its hero avoids being civilizedgoing to school and learning to read, so he can preserve his innate goodness. Intellect,
42、according to Hofstadter, is different from native intelligence, a quality we reluctantly admire. Intellect is the critical, creative, and contemplative side of the mind. Intelligence seeks to grasp, manipulate, re-order, and adjust, while intellect examines, ponders, wonders, theorizes, criticizes a
43、nd imagines. School remains a place where intellect is mistrusted. Hofstadter says our country“s educational system is in the grips of people who “joyfully and militantly proclaim their hostility to intellect and their eagerness to identify with children who show the least intellectual promise“.（分数：
44、20.00）(1).What do American parents expect their children to learn in school?（分数：4.00）A.To be spiritually independent.B.To acquire higher intelligence.C.To seek knowledge for practice.D.To train emotional intelligence.(2).What contributes to the citizens“ active participation in democracy?（分数：4.00）A.
45、Self-evaluation.B.Critical thinking.C.Social environment.D.Law enforcement.(3).The opinions held by Ravitch and Mark Twain on school education are _.（分数：4.00）A.identicalB.complementaryC.sameD.opposite(4).According to the passage, Emerson is likely to be _.（分数：4.00）A.an opponent of environment protec
46、tionB.a pioneer of classical learningC.an advocator of anti-intellectualismD.a scholar at college(5).The word “hostility“ in the last paragraph is closest in meaning to _.（分数：4.00）A.awarenessB.oppositionC.willingnessD.toleranceCompetition for admission to the country“s top private schools has always
47、 been tough, but this year Elisabeth Krents realized it had reached a new level. Her wake-up call came when a man called the Dalton School in Manhattan, where Krents is admission director, and inquired about the age cut off for their kindergarten program. After providing the information (they don“t
48、use an age cut off), she asked about the age of his child. The man paused for an uncomfortably long time before answering. “Well, we don“t have a child yet,“ he told Krents. “We“re trying to figure out when to conceive a child so the birthday is not a problem.“ School obsession is spreading from Man
49、hattan to the rest of the country. Precise current data on private schools are unavailable, but interviews with representatives of independent and religious schools all told the same story: a glut of applicants, higher rejection rates. “We have people calling us for spots two years down the road,“ said Marilyn Collins of the Seven Hills School in Cincinnati. “We have grandparents calling for pregnant daughters.“ Public-opinion poll after poll indicates that Americans“ No. 1 concern is education. Now that the long economic boom has given parents more disposa
