1、大学英语六级分类模拟题 372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)Largely for “spiritual reasons,“ Nancy Manos started home-schooling her children five years ago and has studiously avoided public schools ever since. Yet last week, she was enthusiastically enrolling her 8-year-old daught
2、er, Olivia, in sign language and modern dance classes at Eagleridge Enrichmenta program run by the Mesa, Ariz, public schools are taught by district teachers. Manos still wants to handle the basics, but likes that Eagleridge offers the extras, “things I couldn“t teach.“ One doubt, though, lingers in
3、 her mind: why would the public school system want to offer home-school families anything? A big part of the answer is economics. The number of home-schooled kids nationwide has risen to as many as 1.9 million from an estimated 345,000 in 1994, and school districts that get state and local dollars p
4、er child are beginning to suffer. In Maricopa County, which includes Mesa, the number of home-schooled kids has more than doubled during that period to 7,526; at about $4,500 a child, that“s nearly $34 million a year in lost revenue. Not everyone“s happy with these innovations. Some states have take
5、n the opposite tack. Like about half of the states, West Virginia refuses to allow home-schooled kids to play public-school sports. And in Arizona, some complain that their tax dollars are being used to create programs for families who, essentially, eschew participation in public life. “That makes m
6、y teeth grit,“ says Daphne Atkeson, whose 10-year-old son attends public school in Paradise Valley. Even some committed home-schoolers question the new programs, given their central irony: they turn home-schoolers into public-school students, says Bob Parsons, president of the Alaska Private and Hom
7、e Educators Association. “We“ve lost about one third of our members to those programs. They“re so enticing,“ Mesa started Eagleridge four years ago, when it saw how much money it was losing from home-schoolers, and how unprepared some students were when they re-entered the schools. Since it began, t
8、he program“s enrolment has nearly doubled to 397, and last year the district moved Eagleridge to a strip mall (between a pizza joint and a laser-tag arcade). Parents typically drop off their kids once a week; because most of the children qualify as quarter-time students, the district collects $911 p
9、er child. “It“s like getting a taste of what real school is like,“ says 10-year-old Chad Lucas, who“s learning computer animation and creative writing. Other school districts are also experimenting with novel ways to court home schoolers. The town of Galena, Alaska, (pop. 600) has just 178 students.
10、 But in 1997, its school administrators figured they could reach beyond their borders. Under the program, the district gives home-schooling families flee computers and Internet service for correspondence classes. In return, the district gets $3,100 per student enrolled in the programS9.6 million a y
11、ear, which it has used partly for a new vocational school. Such alternatives just might appeal to other districts. Ernest Felty, head of Hardin County schools in southern Illinois, has 10 home-schooled pupils. That may not sound like muchexcept that he has a staff of 68, and at $4,500 a child, “that
12、“s probably a teacher“s salary,“ Felty says. With the right robotics or art class, though, he could take the home out of home schooling.（分数：20.00）(1).What changes will Olivia face in the future?（分数：4.00）A.She will face her mother“s punishment.B.She will start to learn some knowledge in the public sc
13、hool.C.Her mother Nancy Manos are likely to teach in the school.D.Her home-learning is forbidden by government.(2).What can we infer from the statistics in paragraph 2?（分数：4.00）A.It is a great loss for the public school system to have so many home-schoolers.B.The number of the home-schoolers is stea
14、dily increasing.C.Economics is greatly influenced by so many home-schoolers.D.Home-schooling has an incomparable advantage over the public school system.(3).The statement “That makes my teeth grit“ in paragraph 3 implies that _.（分数：4.00）A.I was in favour of what the public school had doneB.I wanted
15、to eat somethingC.I was angry and dissatisfiedD.I was indifferent to the policy(4).The reason why Mesa began Eagleridge is that _.（分数：4.00）A.the public school system has an incomparable advantage over home-schoolingB.she can obtain more money from those home-schoolers by helping them do some prepara
16、tionC.more and more people are wealthy enough to pay for intuitionD.parents are too busy to take care of their children(5).Which one of the following classes is not mentioned in the passage?（分数：4.00）A.Art class.B.Computer animation.C.Sign language class.D.Pizza making class.There was a time when big
17、-league university presidents really mattered. The New York Times covered their every move. Presidents, the real ones , sought their counsel. For Woodrow Wilson and Dwight Eisenhower, being head of Princeton and Columbia, respectively, was a stepping-stone to the White House. Today, though, the job
18、of college president is less and less removed from that of the Avon lady (except the house calls are made to the doorsteps of wealthy alums). Ruth Simmons, the newly installed president of Brown University and the first African American to lead an Ivy League school, is a throwback to the crusading c
19、ampus leaders of the old. She doesn“t merely marshal funds; she invests them in the great educational causes of our day. With the more than $300 million she raised as president of Smith College from 1995 to 2001, Simmons established an engineering program (the first at any women“s school) and added
20、seminars focused on public speaking to purge the ubiquitous “likes“ and “urns“ from the campus idiom. At a meeting to discuss the future of Smith“s math department, one professor timidly requested two more discussion sections for his course. Her response: “Dream bigger.“ Her own dream was born in a
21、sharecropper“s shack in East Texas where there was no money for books or toysshe and her 11 siblings each got an apple, an orange and 10 nuts for Christmas. Though she was called Negro on her walk to school, entering the classroom, she says, “was like waking up.“ When Simmons won a scholarship to Di
22、llard University, her high school teachers took up a collection so she“d have a coat. She went on to Harvard to earn a Ph.D. in Romance languages. Simmons has made diversity her No. 1 campus crusade. She nearly doubled the enrolment of black freshmen at Smith, largely by travelling to high schools i
23、n the nation“s poorest ZIP codes to recruit. Concerned with the lives of minority students once they arrived at school, she has fought to ease the racial standoffs that plague so many campuses. At Smith she turned down a request by students to have race-specific dorms. In 1993, while vice provost at
24、 Princeton, she wrote a now famous report recommending that the university establish an office of conflict resolution to defuse racial misunderstandings before they boiled over. Her first task at Brown will be to heal one such rupture last spring after the student paper published an incendiary ad by
25、 conservative polemicist David Horowitz arguing that blacks economically benefited from slavery. “There“s no safe ground for anybody in race relations, but campuses, unlike any other institution in our society, provide the opportunity to cross racial lines,“ says Simmons. “And even if you“re hurt, y
26、ou can“t walk away. You have to walk over that line.“（分数：20.00）(1).What does the “ones“ (Line 2, Para.1) refer to?（分数：4.00）A.Counsellors in the White HouseB.Famous people in a countryC.Presidents of universitiesD.Presidents of nations(2).Which one of the following is NOT TRUE on how Simmons spend wi
27、th the funds she had raised?（分数：4.00）A.She enlarged the number of those students who can win scholarship.B.She paid more attention on public speaking by adding more seminars.C.An engineering program was established by her.D.She encouraged professors to practice their ideas.(3).What can we infer from
28、 “was like waking up“ in paragraph 3?（分数：4.00）A.Simmons is realistic.B.Simmons is creative.C.Simmons is coward.D.Simmons is optimistic.(4).Why did Simmons reject the request to allow students with same race to live together in one dormitory?（分数：4.00）A.She intended to allow students to make more frie
29、nds.B.She expected students from different races to know more about each other, thus reducing racial misunderstanding.C.Students from the same race would be isolated.D.She anticipated avoiding quarrels of students from diverse background.(5).What is a typical role played by colleges from the perspec
30、tive of Simmons?（分数：4.00）A.A safe ground for students.B.A remote area for entertainment.C.A place with less discrimination.D.A small society for students to get prepared for the future.Roger Rosenblatt“s book Black Fiction , in attempting to apply literary rather than sociopolitical criteria to its
31、subject, successfully alters the approach taken by most previous studies. As Rosenblatt notes, criticism of Black writing has often served as a pretext for expounding on Black history. Addison Gayle“s recent work, for example, judges the value of Black fiction by overtly political standards, rating
32、each work according to the notions of Black identity which it propounds. Although fiction assuredly springs from political circumstances, its authors react to those circumstances in ways other than ideological, and talking about novels and stories primarily as instruments of ideology circumvents muc
33、h of the fictional enterprise. Rosenblatt“s literary analysis discloses affinities and connections among works of Black fiction which solely political studies have overlooked or ignored. Writing acceptable criticism of Black fiction, however, presupposes giving satisfactory answers to a number of qu
34、estions. First of all, is there a sufficient reason, other than the facial identity of the authors, to group together works by Black authors? Second, how does Black fiction make itself distinct from other modern fictions, with which it is largely contemporaneous? Rosenblatt shows that Black fiction
35、constitutes a distinct body of writing that has an identifiable, coherent literary tradition. Looking at novels written by Black over the last eighty years, he discovers recurring concerns and designs independent of chronology. These structures are thematic, and they spring, not surprisingly, from t
36、he central fact that the Black characters in these novels exist in a predominantly white culture, whether they try to conform to that culture or rebel against it. Black Fiction does leave some aesthetic questions open. Rosenblatt“s thematic analysis permits considerable objectivity; he even explicit
37、ly states that it is not his intention to judge the merit of the various worksyet his reluctance seems misplaced, especially since an attempt to appraise might have led to interesting results. For instance, some of the novels appear to be structurally diffuse. Is this a defect, or are the authors wo
38、rking out of, or trying to forge, a different kind of aesthetic? In addition, the style of some Black novels, like Jean Toomer“s Cane , verges on expressionism or surrealism; does this technique provide a counterpoint to the prevalent theme that portrays the fate against which Black heroes are pitte
39、d, a theme usually conveyed by more naturalistic modes of expression? In spite of such omissions, what Rosenblatt does included in his discussion makes for an astute and worthwhile study. Black Fiction surveys a wide variety of novels, bringing to our attention in the process some fascinating and li
40、ttle-known works like James Weldon Johnson“s Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man . Its argument is tightly constructed, and its forthright, lucid style exemplifies levelheaded and penetrating criticism.（分数：20.00）(1).In what ways is the book Black Fiction different from traditional ones?（分数：4.00）A.The
41、 opinions the author holds.B.The rhetorics used in the book.C.The way that it adopts literary standard to study its topic.D.The background of black people“s social life.(2).The word “affinities“ (Line 4, Para.2) is closet in the meaning to _.（分数：4.00）A.relationshipB.affabilityC.concentrationD.vigila
42、nce(3).It is generally acknowledged that the Black characters in literary works _.（分数：4.00）A.live in a white-dominated environmentB.attempt to fight against white cultureC.become more independent than beforeD.suffer from severe competition(4).What is the author“s attitude to the book Black Fiction ?
43、（分数：4.00）A.Indifferent.B.Argumentative.C.Positive.D.Critical.(5).The author of the text employs all of the following in the discussion of Rosenblatt“s book EXCEPT _.（分数：4.00）A.rhetorical questionsB.definition of termsC.comparison and contrastD.specific examples“I want to criticize the social system,
44、 and to show it at work, at its most intense.“ Virginia Woolf“s provocative statement about her intentions in writing Mrs. Dalloway has regularly been ignored by the critics, since it highlights an aspect of her literary interests very different from the traditional picture of the “poetic“ novelist
45、concerned with examining states of reverie and vision and with following the intricate pathways of individual consciousness. But Virginia Woolf was a realistic as well as a poetic novelist, a satirist and social critic as well as a visionary: literary critics“ cavalier dismissal of Woolf“s social vi
46、sion will not withstand scrutiny. In her novels, Woolf is deeply engaged by the questions of how individuals are shaped (or deformed) by their social environments, how historical forces impinge on people“s lives, how class, wealth, and gender help to determine people“s fates. Most of her novels are
47、rooted in a realistically rendered social setting and in a precise historical time. Woolf“s focus on society has not been generally recognized because of her intense antipathy to propaganda in art. The pictures of reformers in her novels are usually satiric or sharply critical. Even when Woolf is fu
48、ndamentally sympathetic to their causes, she portrays people anxious to reform their society and possessed of a message or program as arrogant or dishonest, unaware of how their political ideas serve their own psychological needs. (Her Writer“s Diary notes: “the only honest people are the artists,“
49、whereas “these social reformers and philanthropists.Harbour.discreditable desires under the disguise of loving their kind.“) Woolf detested what she called “preaching“ in fiction, too, and criticized novelist D.H. Lawrence (among others) for working by this method. Woolf“s own social criticism is expressed in the language of observation rather than in direct commentary, since for her, fiction is a contemplative, not an active art. She describes phenomena and provides materials for a judgment about society and social issues; it is the reader“s work to put the obser
