[外语类试卷]大学英语六级模拟试卷647(无答案).doc
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1、大学英语六级模拟试卷 647(无答案)一、Part I Writing (30 minutes)1 For this part,you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled About Keeping Indoors You should write at least 150 words following the outline given below. 1. 目前很多年轻人大部分时间喜欢“宅” 在家里,很少外出进行户外活动 2. 对这种做法有人表示支持,也有人并不赞成 3. 我的观点 二、Part II Reading
2、 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 given in the passage;N (for NO) if t
3、he statement contradicts the information given in the passage;NG (for NOT GIVEN) if the information is not given in the passage.2 Here They ComeMost of the immigrants came because they were hungryhungry for more bread and for better bread. America offered that. Europe was old; America was young. Eur
4、opean soil had been farmed for many years; American soil was practically untouched. In Europe the land was in the hands of a few people, the upper classes; in America the land was available to all. In Europe it was difficult to get work; in America it was easy to get work. In Europe there were too m
5、any laborers looking for the few available jobs, so wages were low; in America there werent enough laborers to fill the available jobs, so wages were high.A bigger and better loaf of bread, then, attracted most of the in pouring hordes of people to America. But many came for other reasons. One was r
6、eligious persecution. If you were a Catholic in a Protestant country, or a Protestant in another kind of Protestant country, or a Jew in almost any country, you were oftentimes made very uncomfortable. You might have difficulty in getting a job, or you might be laughed at, or have stones thrown at y
7、ou, or you might even be murderedjust for having the wrong(that is, different) religion. You learned about America where your religion didnt make so much difference, where you could be what you pleased, where there was room for Catholic, Protestant, Jew. To America, then!Or perhaps you had the right
8、 religion but the wrong politics. Perhaps you thought a few people in your country had too much power, or that there should be no kings, or that the poor people paid too much taxes, or that the masses of people should have more to say about governing the country. Then, oftentimes, your government th
9、ought you were too radical and tried to get hold of you to put you into prison, where your ideas might not upset the people. You didnt want to go to prison, so you had to leave the country to avoid being caught. Where to go under the circumstances? Some place where you could be a free man, where you
10、 werent clapped into jail for talking. Probably you turned to the place Joseph described in his letter to his brother. “Michael, this is a glorious country; you have liberty to do as you will. You can read what you wish, and write what you like, and talk as you have a mind to, and no one arrests you
11、.“ Off to America!For several hundred years America was advertised just as Lucky Strike cigarettes and Buick cars are advertised today. The wonders of America were told in books, pamphlets, newspapers, pictures, postersand always this advice was given,“ Come to America.“ But why should anyone be int
12、erested in whether or not Patrick McCarthy or Hans Knobloch moved from his European home to America? There were two groups interested at different times, but for the same reasonbusiness profits.In the very beginning, over three hundred years ago, trading companies were organized which got huge tract
13、s of land in America for nothing or almost nothing. That land, however, was valueless until people lived on it, until crops were produced, or animals killed for their furs. Then the trading company would step in, buy things from the settlers and sell things to company would step in, buy things from
14、the settlers and sell things to themat a profits. The Dutch West India Company, the London Company, and several others were trading companies that gave away land in America with the idea of eventually making money on cargoes from the colonists. They wanted profitsneeded immigrants to get themadverti
15、sedand people came.In later years, from 1870 on, other groups interested in business profits tried to get people to come to America. The Cunard line, the White Star line, the North German Lloyed, and several others earned money only when people used their ships. They therefore sent advertisements to
16、 all parts of the world to get people to travel to Americain their ships. They sent not only advertisements, but also agents whose business it was to “hunt up emigrants.“ All the other reasons mentioned before were operating, and along came a man who promised to help you, gave you complete direction
17、s, aided you in all the little details that were necessary, sometimes even got you a passport, and finally led you to the right shipTo America!For one reason or another, then, people were attracted to America and came of their own free will. There were others who came not because they wanted to, but
18、 because they had to.In the early days when America was a colony of England, that country saw a chance to get rid of people who seemed to be “undesirable“. Accordingly, hundreds of paupers and convicts were put on ships and sent to America. Some of the latter were real criminals, but many had been p
19、ut in prison for small offenses such as poaching, or stealing a loaf of bread, or being in debt, However, they were not “good citizens“ as far as English was concerned, so what better idea could that country have than to get rid of them? Off to America, whether they liked it or not!There were two gr
20、oups of indentured servants. There were those who voluntarily sold themselves for a four-to-seven-year term just to get their passage paid. There was another group, however, “who were carried here against their will hustled on board ships, borne across the sea and sold into bondage. The streets of L
21、ondon were full of Kidnappers“spirits,“ as they were called; no workingman was safe; the very beggars were afraid to speak with anyone who mentioned the terrifying word America. Parents were tom from their homes, husbands from their wives, to disappear forever as if swallowed up in death. Children w
22、ere bought from worthless fathers, orphans from their guardians, dependent or undesirable relatives from families weary of supporting them.“Still another group of immigrants were brought against their will. When the early settlers found it practically impossible to make good slaves of the Indians th
23、ey found here, because the red man was too proud to work under the lash, they turned to Africa, where Negroes could be obtained. For most of the eighteenth century over twenty thousand slaves were transported every year. Negro slave trading became a very profitable business. Many great English fortu
24、nes were founded on the slave trade. The Gladstone family fortune is a famous example.As might be expected, the privations suffered by the whites in the sea crossing were nothing when compared to the misery of the Negroes. Here is a sample account of conditions on the slave ships:“She had taken in,
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