[外语类试卷]大学英语六级模拟试卷403及答案与解析.doc
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1、大学英语六级模拟试卷 403及答案与解析 一、 Part I Writing (30 minutes) 1 Directions: The following table gives statistics showing the aspects of quality of life in five countries. Write a composition describing the information in the table below. You should write at least 150 words. 二、 Part II Reading Comprehension (S
2、kimming 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 the statement agrees with the information given in the passage; N (for NO) if the statement c
3、ontradicts the information given in the passage; NG (for NOT GIVEN) if the information is not given in the passage. 1 Is College Really Worth the Money? The Real World Este Griffith had it all figured out. When she graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in April 2001, she had her sights set on
4、one thing: working for a labor union. The real world had other ideas. Griffith left school with not only a degree but a boatload of debt. She owed $15,000 in student loans and had racked up $4.000 in credit card debt for books, groceries and other expenses. No labor union job could pay enough to bai
5、l her out. So Griffith went to work instead for a Washington. D.C. firm that specializes in economic development. Problem solved? Nope. At age 24. she takes home about $1.800 a month. $1.200 of which-disappears to pay her tent. Add another $t80 a month to retire her student loans and $300 a month to
6、 whittle down her credit card balance. “You do the math.“ she says. Griffith has practically no money to live on. She brown-bags(自带午餐 ) her lunch and bikes to work. Above all, she fears shell never own a house or be able to retire. Its not that she regrets getting her degree. “But they dont tell you
7、 that the trade-off is the next ten years of your income.“ she says Thats precisely the deal being made by more and more college students. Theyre mortgaging their futures to meet soaring tuition costs and other college expenses. Like Griffith. theyre facing a one-two punch at graduation: hefty(沉重的 )
8、 student loans and smothering credit card debt not to mention a job market that, for now anyway, is dismal. “We are forcing our children to make a choice between two evils.“ says Elizabeth Warren. a Harvard Law professor and expert on bankruptcy. “Skip college and face a life of diminished opportuni
9、ty, or go to college end face a life shackled(束缚 ) by debt.“ Tuition Hikes For some time. colleges have insisted their steep tuition hikes are needed to pay for cutting-edge technologies, faculty and administration salaries, end rising health care costs. Now theres a new culprit(犯人 ): shrinking stat
10、e support. Caught in a severe budget crunch, many states have sharply scaled back their funding for higher education. Someone had to make up for those lost dollars. And you can guess who-especially if you live in Massachusetts, which last year hiked its tuition and fees by 24 percent, after funding
11、dropped by 3 percent, or in Missouri, where appropriations (拨款 ) fell by t0 percent, but tuition rose at double that rate. About one-third of the states, in fact, have increased tuition and fees by more then 10 percent. One of those states is California, and Janet Burrells family is feeling the palm
12、 A bookkeeper m Torrance, Burrell has a daughter at the University of California at Davis. Meanwhile, her sons attend two-year colleges because Burrell cant afford to have all of them in four-year schools at once. Meanwhile, even with tuition hikes, Californias community colleges are so strapped for
13、 cash they dropped thousands of classes last spring. The result: 54,000 fewer students. Collapsing Investments Many families thought they had a surefire plan: even if tuition kept skyrocketing, they had invested enough money along the way to meet the costs. Then a funny thing happened on the way to
14、Wall Street. Those investments collapsed with the stock market. Among the losers last year: the wildly popular “529“ plans-federal tax-exempt college savings plans offered by individual states, which have attracted billions from families around the country. “We hear fr0m many parents that what they
15、had set aside declined in value so much that they now dont have enough to see their students through,“ says Penn State financial aid director Anna Griswold, who witnessed a 10 percent increase in loan applications last year. Even with a market that may be slowly recovering, it will take time, perhap
16、s several years, for people to recoup (补偿 ) their losses. Nadine Sayegh is among those who didnt have the luxury of waiting for her college nest egg to grow back. Her father had invested money toward her tuition, but a large chunk of it vanished when stocks went south. Nadine was than only partway t
17、hrough college. By graduation, she had taken out at least $10,000 in loans, and her mother had borrowed even more on her behalf. Now 22, Nadine is attending law school, having signed for yet more loans to pay for that. “There wasnt any way to do it differently,“ she says, “and Im not happy about it.
18、 Ive sat down and calculated how long it will take me to pay off everything. Ill be 35 years old.“ Thats if shes very lucky: Nedine based her calculation on landing a job right out of law school that will pay her at least $120,000 a year. Dependent on Loans and Credit Cards The American Council on E
19、ducation has its own calculation that shows how students are more and more dependent on loans. In just five years, from 1995 to 2000, the median loan debt at public institutions rose from $10,342 to $15,375. Most of this comes from federal loans, which Congress made more tempting in 1992 by expandin
20、g eligibility (home equity no longer counts against your assets) and raising loan limits (a dependent undergraduate can now borrow up to $23 000 from the federal government). But students arent stopping there. The College Board estimates that they also borrowed $4.5 billion from private lenders in t
21、he 2000-2001 academic year, up from $1.5 billion just five years earlier. For 10ts of students, the worst of it isnt even the weight of those direct student loans. Its what they rack up on all those plastic cards in their wallets. As of two years ago, according to a study by lender Nellie Mae, more
22、than eight out of ten undergrads had their Own credit cards, with the typical student carrying four. Thats no big surprise, given the in-your-face marketing by credit card companies, which set up tables on campus to entice(诱惑 ) students to sign up. Some colleges ban or restrict this hawking, but oth
23、ers give it a boost. You know those credit cards emblazoned with a schools picture or its logo? For sanctioning such a card a must-have for some students-a college department or association gets payments from the issuer. Meanwhile, from freshman year to graduation, according to the Nellie Mae study,
24、 students triple the number of credit cards they own and double their debt on them. As of 2001, they were in the hole an average $2,327. A Wise Choice? One day, Moyer sat down with his mother, Janne ODonnell, to talk about his goal of going to law school. Dont count on it, ODonnell told him. She cou
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