1、大学英语六级模拟试卷 728（无答案）一、Part I Writing (30 minutes)1 On the Losing of Traditional CultureI现在许多传统文化正慢慢消失2传统文化消失的原因3我的看法二、Part II Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) (15 minutes)Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions attached t
2、o the passage. For questions 1-4, mark：Y (for YES) if the statement agrees with the information given in the passage;N (for NO) if the statement contradicts the information given in the passage;NG (for NOT GIVEN) if the information is not given in the passage.1 Universities Branch OutFrom their stud
3、ent bodies to their research practices, universities are becoming more global.By Richard LevinAs never before in their long history, universities have become instruments of national competition as well as instruments of peace. They are the locus of the scientific discoveries that move economies forw
4、ard, and the primary means of educating the talent required to obtain and maintain competitive advantage. But at the same time, the opening of national borders to the flow of goods, services, information and especially people has made universities a powerful force for global integration, mutual unde
5、rstanding and geopolitical stability.In response to the same forces that have propelled the world economy, universities have become more self-consciously global: seeking students from around the world who represent the entire spectrum of cultures and values, sending their own students abroad to prep
6、are them for global careers, offering courses of study that address the challenges of an interconnected world and collaborative research programs to advance science for the benefit of all humanity.Of the forces shaping higher education none is more sweeping than the movement across borders. Over the
7、 past three decades the number of students leaving home each year to study abroad has grown at an annual rate of 3.9 percent, from 800,000 in 1975 to 2.5 million in 2004. Most travel from one developed nation to another, but the flow from developing to developed countries is growing rapidly. The rev
8、erse flow, from developed to developing countries, is on the rise, too. Today foreign students earn 30 percent of the doctoral degrees awarded in the United States and 38 percent of those in the United Kingdom. And the number crossing borders for undergraduate study is growing as well, to 8 percent
9、of the undergraduates at Americas Ivy League institutions and 10 percent of all undergraduates in the U.K. In the United States, 20 percent of newly hired professors in science and engineering are foreign-born, and in China the vast majority of newly hired faculty at the top research universities re
10、ceived their graduate education abroad.What are the consequences of these shifts among the highly educated? Consider this: on the night after the attacks on the World Trade Center, Jewish students at Yale (most of them American) came together with Muslim students (most of them foreign) to organize a
11、 vigil. Or this: every year the student-run Forum for American/Chinese Exchange at Stanford (FACES) organizes conferences in both China and at Stanford, bringing together students from both countries chosen to discuss Sino-U. S. relations with leading experts. The leaders of student groups promoting
12、 international collaboration are in touch with each other daily via e-mail and Skype, technologies that not only facilitate cooperative projects but also increase the likelihood of creating lifelong personal ties. The bottom line: the flow of students across national borders- students who are dispro
13、portionately likely to become leaders in their home countries- enables deeper mutual understanding, tolerance and global integration.As part of this, universities are encouraging students to spend some of their undergraduate experience in another country. In Europe, more than 140,000 students partic
14、ipate in the Erasmus program each year, taking courses for credit in one of 2,200 participating institutions across the continent. And in the United States, institutions are mobilizing their alumni to help place students in summer internships abroad to prepare them for global careers. Yale and Harva
15、rd have led the way, offering every undergraduate at least one international study or internship opportunity- and providing the financial resources to make it possible. Universities are also establishing more-ambitious foreign outposts to serve students primarily from the local market rather than th
16、e parent campus. And true educational joint ventures are gaining favor, such as the 20-year-old Johns Hopkins-Nanjing program in Chinese and American Studies, the Duke Goethe executive M. B. A. program and the MIT-Singapore alliance, which offers dual graduate degrees in a variety of engineering fie
17、lds.Globalization is also reshaping the way research is done. One new trend involves sourcing portions of a research program to another country. Yale professor and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator Tian Xu directs a research center focused on the genetics of human disease at his alma mate
18、r, Shanghais Fudan University, in collaboration with faculty colleagues from both schools. The Shanghai center has 95 employees and graduate students working in a 4,300-square-meter laboratory facility. Yale faculty, postdocs and graduate students visit regularly and attend videoconference seminars
19、with scientists from both campuses. The arrangement benefits both countries; Xus Yale lab is more productive, thanks to the lower costs of conducting research in China, and Chinese graduate students, postdocs and faculty get on-the-job training from a world-class scientist and his U.S. team.Indeed,
20、China is intent on playing all its cards. By investing heavily in research, tripling university enrollments between 1998 and 2004, and encouraging top students to think independently, the country is self-consciously using its universities as a means to stimulate economic growth. At the same time, si
21、nce Deng Xiaoping first permitted Chinese students to seek education in the West in 1978, no country has made a more deliberate effort to send its most talented students abroad for a top education -especially at the graduate level. Today, in contrast to 10 or 20 years ago when economic opportunity w
22、as limited at home, most Chinese students return after graduation- often with an appreciation of the values of a free society and a greater understanding of the countries where they studied.Europe, by contrast, has lost its competitive edge. According to “The Future of European Universities: Renaiss
23、ance or Decay?“ a devastating recent critique by Confederation of British Industry Director General Richard Lambert and Nick Butler, Chief of Strategic Planning at British Petroleum, European governments have systematically weakened their top universities, once the pride of the world. They have inve
24、sted too little in research, spread limited resources across too many institutions, expanded enrollments without increasing faculty and refused to allow universities sufficient autonomy, the report says. To flourish, they need to concentrate more resources in the hands of the strongest universities
25、and allow them to generate revenue by charging tuition fees like their U.S. counterparts- and awarding financial aid to those in greatest need.For all its success, the United States remains deeply ambivalent about sustaining the research-university model. Most politicians recognize the link between
26、investment in science and national economic strength, but support for research funding has been fitful and sporadic rather than steady. The budget of the National Institutes of Health doubled between 1998 and 2003, but has risen more slowly than inflation since then. Support for the physical science
27、s and engineering barely kept pace with inflation during that same period; legislation to double these expenditures in 10 years is currently pending. The attempt to make up lost ground is welcome, but the nation would be better served by steady, predictable increases in science funding at the rate o
28、f long-term GDP growth, which is on the order of inflation plus 3 percent per year.2 Globalized universities are powerful in enhancing national competition and international stability. （A）Y（B） N（C） NG3 Students from one developed nation to another equal students from developing to developed countrie
29、s in number. （A）Y（B） N（C） NG4 Chinas most famous research universities hire mostly those who received their graduate education in U.K. and U.S. in the recent years. （A）Y（B） N（C） NG5 FACES brings together students both from China and Stanford together in America every year. （A）Y（B） N（C） NG6 _ partici
30、pate in the Erasmus program in Europe to prepare students for global careers. 7 Globalized research has made Xus Yale lab more competitive because the labs research work in China _. 8 In China, most talented students have been sent abroad to _ - chiefly at the graduate level. 9 For European governme
31、nts, _ in the hands of the strongest universities and allowing them to generate revenue are important ways to grow vigorously. 10 Budget for legislation may double the expenditures on _ in 10 years. 11 As a result of steady and predictable increases in science funding _. Section ADirections: In this
32、 section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At the end of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must re
33、ad the four choices marked A, B, C and D, and decide which is the best answer.（A）On Thursday night.（B） On Monday night.（C） On Friday morning.（D）On Thursday morning.（A）Try to help him from rooms in another hotel.（B） Check to see if there are any vacancies in here hotel.（C） Let him move to a room with
34、 two single beds.（D）Show him the way Imperial Hotel.（A）Robust.（B） Brave.（C） Generous.（D）Dangerous.（A）He loves his present job.（B） He is to open a store.（C） He is about to retire.（D）He works in a repair shop.（A）She has confidence in him.（B） She has also won a scholarship.（C） She is surprised at the n
35、ews.（D）She is not interested in the news.（A）His only son is dying.（B） His mother died some time ago.（C） He didnt look after his sick wife.（D）He hasnt taken good care of his son.（A）At the airport.（B） In a travel agency.（C） In a hotel.（D）At the reception desk.（A）He is not equal to the job.（B） He doesn
36、t think the job is challenging enough.（C） He is not well paid for his work.（D）He cannot keep his mind on his work.（A）He might do some evening teaching.（B） He could bring unfinished work home.（C） He might have time to pursue his interests.（D）He could invest more emotion in his family.（A）To be a mathe
37、matician.（B） To write his own books.（C） To teach in high school.（D）To be a medical doctor.（A）For an easy grade.（B） To follow his father.（C） To change his specialty.（D）For knowledge of poetry.（A）The size of the cafeteria.（B） The food served in the cafeteria.（C） The cost of meals in the cafeteria.（D）C
38、areer opportunities in cafeterias.（A）Inform students of the disadvantages of frying food.（B） Find other students who will work in the cafeteria.（C） Ask students to try a new dish he has made.（D）Collect students opinions about meals.（A）Use less sauce on the food.（B） Serve some less expensive food.（C）
39、 Make some of the meals less fattening.（D）Stop serving hamburgers and fried chicken.（A）Very doubtful.（B） Quite annoyed.（C） Somewhat curious.（D）Indifferent.Section BDirections: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage
40、and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D.（A）Because many people believe in old ways of predicting weather.（B） Because city dwellers have no other ways of predicting weather.（C） Because it is base
41、d on long experience and observation.（D）Because we have no other origins of foretelling weather.（A）Because human beings are close to nature.（B） Because human beings depend on weather forecasting warnings.（C） Because senses of ours are not useful as that of animals.（D）Because human beings dont depend
42、 on the senses.（A）Animals extraordinary ability to predict weather.（B） Some old ways of weather predicting.（C） The wisdom of ancient people.（D）Why we should pay more respect to animals.（A）It can be used to fight pains.（B） It can be used to reduce high body temperature.（C） It can be used to help bloo
43、d pass through blockage.（D）It can be used to stop heart attacks or strokes.（A）It has shown that aspirin can improve survival in colon cancer patients.（B） It has shown that colon cancer had not spread to other parts of the body.（C） It has shown that aspirin users increased thirty percent risks from t
44、heir cancer.（D）It has shown that aspirin had been discovered for eleven years.（A）A controlled study.（B） A trial study.（C） An observational study.（D）A successful study.（A）They eat or destroy plants.（B） They provide plants with continued oxygen supply.（C） Their manure is eaten by plants.（D）Their manur
45、e improves the quality of soil which plants live on.（A）A community of plants.（B） A community of animals.（C） The study and understanding of plants and animals.（D）The interacting physical factors of the environment.（A）Realistic and valuable.（B） Idealistic and a waste of time.（C） Idealistic but valuabl
46、e.（D）Idealistic but worthless.（A）All creatures live on one another.（B） Plants are more important than animals.（C） Animals are more important than plants.（D）Ecosystem has been destroyed by animals.Section CDirections: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for
47、the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from 36 to 43 with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks numbered from 44 to 46 you are required to fill in the missing informatio
48、n. For these blanks, you can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the 36 Small dogs generally live longer than big dogs so that small Yorkshire terrier (猎狐狗) next door could be around for a long time. But body size isnt the only factor that【B1】_how long dogs survive. Personal
49、ity influences life span, too, according to a new study that might help explain how animal【B2】_evolve.Study on animals from ants to apes has found that different【B3】_have different personalities. Some are timid, others【B4】_. Biologists have proposed that temperaments (性情) evolved along with life history.【B5 】_, violent animals use a lot of energy fast in【B6】_short lives, the thinking goes, whereas calmer animals last longer, saving themselves to【B7】_ later in l
