[外语类试卷]大学英语六级模拟试卷442及答案与解析.doc
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1、大学英语六级模拟试卷 442 及答案与解析 一、 Part I Writing (30 minutes) 1 Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled A Cover Letter. You should write at least 150 words following the outline given below. 1. 你是如何得知招生信息的 2. 自我推荐并说 明选择该校的理由 3. 希望得到该校的回复 二、 Part II Reading Compre
2、hension (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 the statement agrees with the information given in the passage; N (for NO) if the s
3、tatement contradicts the information given in the passage; NG (for NOT GIVEN) if the information is not given in the passage. 1 Part Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions on Answer Shee
4、t 1. For questions 1-7, choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). For questions 8-10, complete the sentences with the information given in the passage. Bring Our Schools out of the 20th Century Theres a dark little joke exchanged by educators with an opposing trace: Rip
5、Van Winkle awakens in the 21 century after a hundred-year sleep and is, of course, utterly bewildered by what he sees. Men and women dash about, talking to small metal devices attached to their ears. Young people sit at home on sofas, moving miniature athletes around on electronic screens. Older fol
6、k defy death and disability with devices in their chests and with hips made of metal and plastic. Airports, hospitals, shopping wallsevery place Rip goes just baffles him. But when he finally walks into a schoolroom, the old man knows exactly where he is. “This is a school,“ he declares. “We used to
7、 have these back in 1906. Only now the blackboards are green.“ American schools arent exactly frozen in time, but considering the pace of change in other areas of life, our public schools tend to feel like throwbacks. Kids spend much of the day as their grandparents once did. sitting in rows, listen
8、ing to teachers lecture, scribbling notes by hand, reading from textbooks that are out of date by the time they are printed. A yawning gap separates the world inside the schoolhouse from the world outside. For the past five years, the national conversation on education has focused on reading scores,
9、 math tests and closing the “achievement gap“ between social classes. This is not a story about that conversation. This is a story about the big public conversation the nation is not having about education, the one that will ultimately determine not merely whether some fraction of our children get “
10、left behind“ but also whether an entire generation of kids will fail to make the grade in the global economy because they cant think their way through abstract problems, work in teams, distinguish good information from bad or speak a language other than English. Right now were aiming too low. Compet
11、ency in reading and math is just the minimum. Scientific and technical skills are, likewise, utterly necessary but insufficient. Todays economy demands not only a high-level competence in the traditional academic disciplines but also what might be called 21st century skills. Heres what they are: Kno
12、wing more about the world. Thinking outside the box. Becoming smarter about new sources of information. Developing good people skills. Real Knowledge in the Google Era Learn the names of all the rivers in South America. That was the assignment given to Deborah Stipeks daughter Meredith in school, an
13、d her mom, whos dean of the Stanford University School of Education, was not impressed. “Thats silly,“ Stipek told her daughter. “Tell your teacher that if you need to know anything besides the Amazon, you can look it up on Google.“ Any number of old-school assignment memorizing the battles of the C
14、ivil War or the periodic table of the elements now seem faintly absurd. That kind of information, which is poorly retained unless you routinely use it, is available at a keystroke. Still, few would argue that an American child shouldnt learn the causes of the Civil War or understand how the periodic
15、 table reflects the atomic structure and properties of the elements. As school critic E. D. Hirsch Jr. points out in his book, The Knowledge Deficit, kids need a substantial fund of information just to make sense of reading materials beyond the grade-school level. Without mastering the fundamental b
16、uilding blocks of math, science or history, complex concepts are impossible. Many analysts believe that to achieve the right balance between such core knowledge and what educators call “portable skills“ critical thinking, making connections between ideas and knowing how to keep on learning the US cu
17、rriculum needs to become more like that of Singapore, Belgium and Sweden, whose students outperform American students on math and science tests. Classes in these countries dwell on key concepts that are taught in depth and in careful sequence, as opposed to a succession of forgettable details so oft
18、en served in U.S. classrooms. Textbooks and tests support this approach. “Countries from Germany to Singapore have extremely small textbooks that focus on the most powerful and generative ideas,“ says Roy Pea, co-director of the Stanford Center for Innovations in Learning. These might be the key rul
19、es in math,“ the laws in science or the relationship between supply and demand in economics. Americas thick textbooks, by contrast, tend to go through a mind-numbing stream of topics and subtopics in an attempt to address a vast range of educational standards. Depth over breadth and the ability to l
20、eap across disciplines are exactly what teachers aim for at the Henry Ford Academy, a public school in Dearborn, Michigan. Last fall, 10th-graders in Charles Dershimers science class began a project that combines concepts from earth science, chemistry, business and design. After .reading about Nikes
21、 effort to develop a more environmentally friendly sneakers, students had to choose a consumer product, analyze and explain its environmental impact and then develop a plan for reengineering it to reduce pollution costs without sacrificing its commercial appeal. Says Dershimers. “Its a challenge for
22、 them and for me.“ A New Kind of Literacy The Juniors in Bill Strouds class are bound by a documentary called Loose Change playing on a small TV screen at the Baccalaureate School for Global Education, in urban Astoria, N. Y. The film uses 9/11 films and interviews with building engineers and Twin T
23、owers survivors to make an oddly compelling case that interior explosions unrelated to the impact of the airplanes brought down the World Trade Center on that fateful day. Afterward, the students an ethnic mix of New Yorkers with their own 9/11 memoriesdive into a discussion about the nature of trut
24、h. Throughout the year, the class will examine news reports, websites, history books, blogs, even pop songs. The goal is to teach kids to be sharp consumers of information and to research, form and defend their own views, says Str0ud, who is the founder and principal of the four-year-old public scho
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