1、大学英语六级分类模拟题 478 及答案解析(总分：253.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、Part Writing(总题数：1，分数：20.00)1.Directions : For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay entitled Never Lose Confidence by commenting on the saying “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.“ You should write
2、 at least 150 words but no more than 200 words. （分数：20.00）_二、Part Reading Compr(总题数：0，分数：0.00)三、Section A(总题数：1，分数：71.00)Thirst grows for living unpluggedMore people are taking breaks from the connected life amid the stillness and quiet of retreats like the Jesuit Center in Wernersville, Pennsylvani
3、a. AAbout a year ago, I flew to Singapore to join the writer Malcolm Gladwell, the fashion designer Marc Ecko and the graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister in addressing a group of advertising people on “Marketing to the Child of Tomorrow.“ Soon after I arrived, the chief executive of the agency that h
4、ad invited us took me aside. What he was most interested in, he began, was stillness and quiet. BA few months later, I read an interview with the well-known cutting-edge designer Philippe Starck. What allowed him to remain so consistently ahead of the curve? “I never read any magazines or watch TV,“
5、 he said, perhaps with a little exaggeration. “Nor do I go to cocktail parties, dinners or anything like that.“ He lived outside conventional ideas, he implied, because “I live alone mostly, in the middle of nowhere.“ CAround the same time, I noticed that those who part with $2285 a night to stay in
6、 a cliff-top room at the Post Ranch Inn in Big Sur, California, pay partly for the privilege of not having a TV in their rooms; the future of travel, I“m reliably told, lies in “black-hole resorts,“ which charge high prices precisely became you can“t get online in their rooms. DHas it really come to
7、 this? The more ways we have to connect, the more many of us seem desperate to unplug. Internet rescue camps in Korea (ROK) and China try to save kids addicted to the screen. Writer friends of mine pay good money to get the Freedom software that enables them to disable the very Internet connections
8、that seemed so emancipating not long ago. Even Intel experimented in 2007 with conferring four uninterrupted hours of quiet time (no phone or e-mail) every Tuesday morning on 300 engineers and managers. Workers were not allowed to use the phone or send e-mail, but simply had the chance to clear thei
9、r heads and to hear themselves think. EThe average American spends at least eight and a half hours a day in front of a screen. Nicholas Carr notes in his book The Shallows. The average American teenager sends or receives 75 text messages a day, though one girl managed to handle an average of 10,000
10、every 24 hours for a month. Since luxury is a function of scarcity, the children of tomorrow will long for nothing more than intervals of freedom from all the blinking machines, streaming videos and scrolling headlines that leave them feeling empty and too full all at once. FThe urgency of slowing d
11、ownto find the time and space to thinkis nothing new. Of course, and wiser sods have always reminded us that the more attention we pay to the moment, the less time and energy we have to place it in some larger context. Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries, the French philo
12、sopher Blaise Pascal wrote in the 17th century, “and yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.“ He also famously remarked that all of man“s problems come from his inability to sit quietly in a room alone. GWhen telegraphs and trains brought in the idea that convenience was more important than c
13、ontent, Henry David Thoreau reminded us that “the man whose horse trots (奔跑) a mile in a minute does not carry the most important messages.“ Marshall McLuhan, who came closer than most to seeing what was coming, warned, “When things come at you very fast, naturally you lose touch with yourself.“ We
14、have more and more ways to communicate, but less and less to say. Partly because we are so busy communicating. And we are rushing to meet so many deadlines that we hardly register that what we need most are lifelines. HSo what to do? More and more people I know seem to be turning to yoga, or meditat
15、ion (沉思), or tai chi (太极); these aren“t New Age fads (时尚饰物) so much as ways to connect with what could be called the wisdom of old age. Two friends of mine observe an “Internet sabbath (安息日)“ every week, turning off their online connections from Friday night to Monday morning. Other friends take wal
16、ks and “forget“ their cellphones at home. IA series of tests in recent years has shown, Mr. Carr points out, that after spending time in quiet rural settings, subjects “exhibit greater attentiveness, stronger memory and generally improved cognition. Their brains become both calmer and sharper.“ More
17、 than that, empathy (同感，共鸣), as well as deep thought, depends (as neuroscientists like Antonio Damasio have found) on neural processes that are “inherently slow.“ JI turn to eccentric measures to try to keep my mind sober and ensure that I have time to do nothing at all (which is the only time when
18、I can see what I should be doing the rest of the time). I have yet to use a cellphone and I have never Tweeted or entered Facebook. I try not to go online till my day“s writing is finished, and I moved from Manhattan to rural Japan in part so I could more easily survive for long stretches entirely o
19、n foot. None of this is a matter of asceticism (苦行主义); it is just pure selfishness. Nothing makes me feel better than being in one place, absorbed in a book, a conversation, or music. It is actually something deeper than mere happiness: it is joy, which the monk (僧侣) David Steindl-Rast describes as
20、“that kind of happiness that doesn“t depend on what happens.“ KIt is vital, of course, to stay in touch with the world. But it is only by having some distance from the world that you can see it whole, and understand what you should be doing with it. For more than 20 years, therefore, I have been goi
21、ng several times a yearoften for no longer than three daysto a Benedictine hermitage (修道院), 40 minutes down the road, as it happens, from the Post Ranch Inn. I don“t attend services when I am there, and I have never meditated, there or anywhere; I just take walks and read and lose myself in the stil
22、lness, recalling that it is only by stepping briefly away from my wife and bosses and Mends that I will have anything useful to bring to them. The last time I was in the hermitage, three months ago, I happened to meet with a youngish-looking man with a 3-year-old boy around his shoulders. L“You“re P
23、ico, aren“t you?“ the man said, and introduced himself as Larry; we had met, I gathered, 19 years before, when he had been living in the hermitage as an assistant to one of the monks. “What are you doing now?“ I asked. We smiled. No words were necessary. “I try to bring my kids here as often as I ca
24、n,“ he went on. The child of tomorrow, I realized, may actually be ahead of us, in terms of sensing not what is new, but what is essential.（分数：71.00）(1).The French philosopher Blaise Pascal says distraction is our greatest misery in life.（分数：7.10）(2).The author says what the children of tomorrow wil
25、l need most is the time away from all electronic gadgets.（分数：7.10）(3).The Post Ranch Inn is special in that it has no access to television in its rooms.（分数：7.10）(4).The neuroscientist Antonio Damasio“s finding is that when people think deeply, their neural processes are slow.（分数：7.10）(5).According t
26、o Marshall McLuhan, we will not know what to do with our own lives if things come at us very fast.（分数：7.10）(6).Yoga, meditation and tai chi can help people understand ancient wisdom.（分数：7.10）(7).The author walks and reads and loses himself in the stillness of the hermitage so that he can bring peopl
27、e around him anything valuable.（分数：7.10）(8).In order to see the whole world, the author thinks it necessary to have some distance from the world.（分数：7.10）(9).The author moved from Manhattan to rural Japan partly because he could live without modem transportation.（分数：7.10）(10).In the author“s opinion
28、, the youngish-looking man takes his little boy to the hermitage frequently so that the boy will know what is essential when he grows up.（分数：7.10）四、Section B(总题数：0，分数：0.00)五、Passage One(总题数：1，分数：71.00)Aimlessness has hardly been typical of the postwar Japan whose productivity and social harmony are
29、the envy of the United States and Europe. But increasingly the Japanese are seeing a decline of the traditional work-moral values. Ten years ago young people were hard working and saw their jobs as their primary reason for being, but now Japan has largely fulfilled its economic needs, and young peop
30、le don“t know where they should go next. The coming of age of the postwar baby boom and an entry of women into the male-dominated job market have limited the opportunities of teenagers who are already questioning the heavy personal sacrifices involved in climbing Japan“s rigid social ladder to good
31、schools and jobs. In a recent survey, it was found that only 24.5 percent of Japanese students were fully satisfied with school life, compared with 67.2 percent of students in the United States. In addition, far more Japanese workers expressed dissatisfaction with their jobs than did their counterpa
32、rts in the ten other countries surveyed. While often praised by foreigners for its emphasis on the basics, Japanese education tends to stress test taking and mechanical learning over creativity and self-expression. “Those things that do not show up in the test scores personality, ability, courage or
33、 humanity are completely ignored,“ says Toshiki Kaifu, chairman of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party education committee. “Frustration against this kind of thing leads kids to drop out and run wild. “ Last year Japan experienced 2,125 incidents of school violence, including 929 assaults on teacher
34、s. Amid the outcry, many conservative leaders are seeking a return to the pre-war emphasis on moral education. Last year Mitsuo Setoyama, who was then education minister, raised eyebrows when he argued that liberal reforms introduced by the American occupation authorities after World War II had weak
35、ened the “Japanese morality of respect for parents. “ But that may have more to do with Japanese life-styles. “In Japan,“ says educator Yoko Muro, “it“s never a question of whether you enjoy your job and your life, but only how much you can endure. “ With economic growth has come centralization (集中)
36、; fully 76 percent of Japan“s 119 million citizens live in cities where community and the extended family have been abandoned in favor of isolated, two-generation households. Urban Japanese have long endured length commutes (travels to and from work) and crowded living conditions, but as the old gro
37、up and family values weaken, the discomfort is beginning to tell. In the past decade, the Japanese divorce rate, while still well below that the United States, has increased by more than 50 percent, and suicides have increased by nearly one-quarter.（分数：71.00）(1).Compared with people a decade ago, Ja
38、panese nowadays _.（分数：14.20）A.are less likely to observe conventional ideas on workingB.tend to work harder for themselves than for a companyC.are more clear about what they should do in their livesD.are always confused by the western standard on hard working(2).According to the passage, Japanese te
39、enagers _.（分数：14.20）A.are more interested in studying in the U.S. than in other countriesB.are not sure about whether their personal sacrifices are worth the effortC.take personal sacrifices as a burden for individual developmentD.are eager to graduate from school and hunt for a good job(3).In Toshi
40、ki Kaifu“s opinion, Japanese education _.（分数：14.20）A.should reinforce the basic aspects of educationB.aims to eliminate the root of campus violenceC.has failed in nurturing kids“ moral virtuesD.should undergo a complete reform on morals(4).It can be inferred that Mitsuo Setoyama _.（分数：14.20）A.thinks
41、 it necessary to stick to liberal reformsB.advocates conservative ideas on social reformsC.is not satisfied with the present education idealsD.regards the respect for parents as the core of education(5).According to the passage, urban Japanese _.（分数：14.20）A.enjoy more the convenience of modem life t
42、han rural peopleB.have realized the objective set down a decade agoC.cherish more the chance to live with other relativesD.are more likely to be the victim of the current life-styles六、Passage Two(总题数：1，分数：71.00)According to a study conducted last April, female seniors studying at Boston College left
43、 the university with lower self-confidence than when they entered as freshmen. The study, administered by the Office of Institutional Research, Planning and Assessment at Boston College, examined two surveys: the first of which was taken by students during their freshman year, and the second of whic
44、h was taken by students exiting their senior year. Despite reports of high academic achievement, most female students gave themselves weaker self evaluations in the second survey. Abbey Clark, a senior and founder of the Boston College chapter (分会) of I AM THAT GIRL, a female-empowerment (赋权) commun
45、ity, says the finding is “startling“. Clark hopes to change the trend by creating an open community that will ignite (点燃) confidence and empowerment in young women. I AM THAT GIRL, a global community which aims to help girls turn their self-doubt into self-love, is all about celebrating women“s uniq
46、ue selves, Clark says. “I AM THAT GIRL helps girls turn their stories of struggle and adversity (逆境) into stories of connectedness and empowerment and feeling good about themselves,“ Clark says. “I think that all high school girls at one time or another can relate to the feeling of not being good en
47、ough.“ To help young girls overcome these feelings, Clark says I AM THAT GIRL at Boston College, which boasts 100 members in its first registered year on campus, holds weekly meetings offering a “safe space“ for college students in which they can discuss topics like body image, relationships, family
48、 dynamics and finding one“s passions. Maria Pascucci, the founder of Campus Calm, a national organization that aims to help college women lead healthy, happy lives, says females feel the pressure to be perfect on a regular basis. She added that the media sends mixed messages to young girls, advising
49、 them to be the best they can be while simultaneously persuading them to buy more and strive for more. “In our society, being a perfectionist is a glorified and socially acceptable form of self-abuse,“ Pascucci says. Pascucci, who was teased as a young girl and suffered self-esteem issues, says her main message to young girls is to let them know their sense of worth comes from within. “When we begin to compare ourselves to others, especially when we“re vulnerabl
