[外语类试卷]大学英语六级模拟试卷151及答案与解析.doc
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1、大学英语六级模拟试卷 151及答案与解析 一、 Part I Writing (30 minutes) 1 Directions: For this part, you are allowed thirty minutes to write a short essay entitled Energy Crisis. You should write at least 150 words following the outline given below in English: 1. Energy crisis is one of the main problems facing the wor
2、ld today. 2. Importance of energy. 3. Conserving energy. 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 to the passage. For questions 1-4, mark: Y (for YES) if t
3、he 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 THE BLENDING OF THE UNITED STATES For years, Jorge Del Pinals job as assistant chief of th
4、e Census Bureaus Population Division was to fit people into neat, distinct racial and ethnic boxes: white, black, Hispanic, Asian or Native American. As the son of an Anglo mother and a Hispanic father, however, he knew all along that the task was not always possible. For the 2000 decennial census,
5、that will no longer be the case. For the first time, the census forms will allow people to check off as many races as apply. As a result, the Census Bureau should obtain a better picture of the extent of intermarriage in the United States. In the absence of such a direct method, a few years ago ,vet
6、eran demographer Barry Edmonston used sophisticated mathematical modeling techniques to calculate how intermarriage is changing the face of the United States as part of an immigration study he directed for the National Research CounciIof the American Academy of Sciences. His research was summarized
7、in a report entitled The New Americans: Economic, Demographic and Fiscal Effects of Immigration. But as the Canadian - born, white husband of sociologist Sharon Lee, a Chinese - American, Edmonsto really needed no computer to understand the transformation under way in this society. He and his family
8、 are living, breathing participants. The face of America is changing literally. As former President Clinton has said, “within 30 or 40 years, when there will be no single race in the majority in the United States, we had best be ready for it.“ For his part, Clinton is preparing for that time by talk
9、ing about racial tolerance and the virtues of multiculturalism. Others are debating immigration policy. Almost all discussion focuses on the potential divisiveness inherent in a nation that is no longer a predominantly white country with a mostly European ancestry. But afoot behind the scenes is ano
10、ther trend that, if handled carefully, could bring the country closer together rather than drive it apart. This quiet demographic counter- revolution is a dramatic upsurge in intermarriage. Edmonstons study projected that by 2050, 21 percent of the U.S. population will be of mixed racial or ethnic a
11、ncestry, up from an estimate of seven percent today. Among third - generation Hispanic and Asian Americans, exogamy - marriage outside ones ethnic group or tribe is at least 50 percent, he and others estimate. Exogamy remains much less prevalent among African Americans, but it has increased enormous
12、ly, from about 1,5 percent in the 1960s to 8 to 10 percent today. Such a profound demographic shift could take place while no one was watching because, officially, no one was watching. Federal agencies traditionally collected racial data using a formula one person, one race similar to the time - hon
13、ored voting principle. Thus, the Census Bureau could estimate that on census forms no more than two percent of the population would claim to be multiracial. In the absence of a more straightforward count, no one could know for sure what the demographics are. Thats about to change. After the 2000 cen
14、sus, the U.S. Government should have a better idea. In 1997, the Office of Management and Budget, which oversees federal statistical practices, approved a directive allowing people to check as many racial boxes as they believe apply to them. The shift was a compromise between the demands of some int
15、erest groups that wanted the addition of a “multiracial“ box, and those that objected to any change, fearing dilution of their numbers. Meanwhile, in the absence of Official numbers, with the heightened tension surrounding racial issues, and with the mutual suspicion that exists among competing raci
16、al and ethnic interest groups, theres little agreement on what intermarriage will mean for U.S. society in the future. Melting Pot To see the new face of the United States, go to a grocery store and look at a box of Betty Crocker - brand food products. Bettys portrait is now in its eighth incarnatio
17、n since the first composite painting debuted in 1936 with pale skin and blue eyes. Her new look is brown - eyed and dark - haired. She has a duskier complexion than her seven predecessors, with features representing an amalgam of white, Hispanic, Indian, African and Asian ancestry. A computer create
18、d this new Betty in the mid - 1990s by blending photos of 75 diverse women. That process was relatively quick, General Mills Inc. spokesmen explain. But they acknowledge that it took quite a while to spread the new image to the whole range of Betty Crocker products. The slow pace of that process its
19、elf could be a metaphor for gradual racial and ethnic intermixing in this country. Indeed, its taking a long time for the new bended American to surface in societys consciousness. Tiger Woods, the young golf great, publicized the trend by identifying himself as Cablinasian, a mixture of Caucasian, b
20、lack, Native American and Asian For the most part, the market-place not government is leading the way in this evolution. Mixed -race models, particularly men, are in great demand, according to fashion industry experts. And multiracial child actors are now more likely to be tapped for television adve
21、rtisements. That serious scholars should be talking about a melting pot is itself a reversal. As a metaphor for American diversity, the melting pot was first discredited after World War I, when the European immigrants streaming into American cities formed distinct ethnic and national enclaves that d
22、idnt melt together. The timing was off, it turned out, and the metaphorical pot was in the wrong place. Interracial and multiethnic fusion started after World War II and happened in the suburbs. City folk moved from their Italian, Irish, Polish or Jewish urban neighborhoods into diffuse suburban set
23、tings, then sent their kids to large public universities, throwing them together with youngsters from other ethnic backgrounds who, nonetheless, came from families with similar lifestyles. Whether blacks will follow other minorities into the melting pot remains a subject of debate. Skeptics point to
24、 the much smaller proportion of black -white marriages and say it wont happen soon. Others respond that the Statistical base is very small because, until 1967, such marriages were illegal in 19 states. Countervailing Forces While many forces are at work to facilitate intermarriage, others militate a
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