[外语类试卷]大学英语六级模拟试卷556及答案与解析.doc
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1、大学英语六级模拟试卷 556及答案与解析 一、 Part I Writing (30 minutes) 1 For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled Can Knowledge Change Ones Destiny? You should write at least 150 words according to the outline given below. 1有人相信知识能 改变命运 2有人则认为当今社会光靠知识已经很难改变命运 3我认为 Can Knowledge Change
2、Ones Destiny? 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 the statement agrees with the information gi
3、ven 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 12 Things Ive Learned From Traveling Around the World for Three Years On March 13, 2007, I handed over the keys to my house, put my p
4、ossessions in storage and headed out to travel around the world with nothing but a backpack, my laptop and a camera. Three and a half years and 70 countries later, Ive gotten the equivalent of a PhD in general knowledge about the people and places of Planet Earth. Here are some of the things Ive lea
5、rned: 1) People are generally good. Many people are afraid of the world beyond their door, yet the vast majority of humans are not thieves, murderers or rapists. They are people just like you and me who are trying to get by, to help their families and go about living their lives. There is no race, r
6、eligion or nationality that is exempt from this rule. How they go about living their lives might be different, but their general goals are the same. 2) The media lies. If you only learned about other countries from the news, youd think the world was a horrible place. The media will always sensationa
7、lize and simplify a story. I was in East Timor during the assassination attempts on President Jose“ Ramos-Horta, and Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao in 2008. The stories in the news the next day were filed from Jakarta or Kuala Lumpur, not Dili. It was all secondhand news. I was in Bangkok during the p
8、olitical protests this year, but youd never have any idea they were taking places if you were not in the immediate area where the protests were taking place. The media makes us scared of the rest of the world, and we shouldnt be. 3) The world is boring. If there isnt a natural disaster or an armed c
9、onflict, most places will never even be mentioned in the news. When is the last time youve heard Laos or Oman mentioned in a news story? What makes for good news are exceptional events, not ordinary events. Most of the world, just like your neighborhood, is pretty boring. It can be amazingly interes
10、ting, but to the locals, they just go about living their lives. 4) Americans dont travel. This stereotype is true. Americans dont travel overseas as much as Brits, Dutch, Germans, Canadians or Scandinavians. There are some good reasons for this (big country, short vacation time) and bad ones (fear a
11、nd ignorance). We dont have a gap year culture like they have in the UK and we dont tend to take vacations longer than a week. I cant think of a single place I visited where I met Americans in numbers anywhere close to our relative population. 5) The rest of the world isnt full of germs. Many people
12、 travel with their own supply of water and an industrial vat of hand sanitizer (消 毒剂 ). I can say in full honestly that I have never used hand sanitizer or gone out of my way to avoid contact with germs during my travels. It is true that in many places you can get nasty illnesses from drinking untre
13、ated water, but I dont think this means you have to be a traveling Howard Hughes. Unless you have a particularly weak immune system or other illness, I wouldnt worry too much about local bugs. 6) You dont need a lot stuff. Condensing my life down from a 3,000 sq/ft house to a backpack was a lesson i
14、n knowing what really matters. I found I could get by just fine without 97% of the things I had sitting around my home. Now, if I purchase something, I think long and hard about it because anything I buy I will have to physically carry around. Because I have fewer possessions, I am more likely to bu
15、y things of higher quality and durability. 7) Traveling doesnt have to be expensive. Yes, if you insist on staying in five-star hotels and luxury resorts, travel can be very expensive. However, it is possible to visit many parts of the world and only spend $10-30 per day. In addition to traveling ch
16、eap, you can also earn money on the road teaching English or working on an organic farm. Ive met many people who have been able to travel on a little more than $l,000/month. I met one man from the Ukraine who spent a month in Egypt on $300. 8) Culture changes. Many people go overseas expecting to ha
17、ve an “authentic“ experience, which really means they want to confirm some stereotype they have in their mind of happy people living in huts and villages. They are often disappointed to find urban people with technology. Visiting a different place doesnt mean visiting a different time. It is the 21s
18、t Century, and most people live in it. They are as likely to wear traditional clothes as Americans are to wear stove top hats like Abraham Lincoln. Cultures have always changed as new ideas, religions, technologies sprang up and different cultures mingled and traded with each other. Today is no diff
19、erent. 9) Everyone is proud of where they are from. When you meet someone local in another country, most people will be quick to tell you something about their city/province/country that they are proud of. Pride and patriotism seem to be universal values. I remember trying to cross the street once i
20、n Palau, one of the smallest countries in the world, and a high school kid came up to me and said, “This is how we cross the street in PALAU!“ Even crossing the street became an act to tell me about his pride in his country. People involved in making foreign policy should be very aware of this. 10)
21、Most people have a deep desire to travel around the world. It is not shocking, but every day I meet people who are fascinated by what I do and how I live. The desire to travel is there, but fears and excuses usually prevent people from doing it. I understand that few people can drop what they are do
22、ing and travel around the world for three years, but traveling overseas for even a few months is within the realm of possibility for many people at some point in their lives. Even on an island in the middle of the Pacific, people who would probably never leave their home island talked to me of one d
23、ay wishing they could see New York or London for themselves. I think the desire to explore and see new things is fundamental to the human experience. 11) You can find the internet almost everywhere. I have been surprised at where Ive found internet access. Ive seen remote villages in the Solomon Isl
24、ands with a packet radio link to another island for their internet access. Ive been at an internet cafe in the Marshall Islands that accessed the web via a geosynchronous satellite (同步卫 星 ). Ive seen lodges in the rainforest of Borneo hooked up to the web. I once counted 27 open wifi signals in Taip
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