英语六级模拟试卷（2）
Part I Listening Comprehension (20 minutes)
Section A
1. A) The storm took a heavy toll of the lives and property of the fishermen.
B) The speakers thanked the meteorologists for their help.
C) The fishermen got back safe and sound.
D) The fishing boats didn’t set sail because of the bad weather.
2. A) Cars that drive themselves will be very expensive.
B) The woman is planning to buy an intelligent car.
C) The man is working with some engineers on intelligent cars.
D) Most people do not like driving to work
3. A) They’re the only tickets to a well-paid job.
B) They don’t help much in getting a good job.
C) They’re essential in getting promoted.
D) They don’t make much difference as far as the pay is concerned.
4. A) Sacramento is a city inhabited by racial minorities
B) There is no racial tension in Sacramento.
C) Non-white Americans will outnumber white American in 60 years’ time.
D) Americans will live in perfect racial harmony 60 years from now.
5. A) He should look professional and knowledgeable about high technology.
B) He should pay special attention to his personal appearance.
C) He should wear a business suit rather than casual clothes.
D) He should make the interviewer aware of his professional qualities.
6. A) People should to everything possible to prevent it.
B) It will cause a lot of disasters for human beings.
C) People should move to cold, dry regions of the world.
D) It may offer people some opportunities, too.
7. A) She’s waiting for someone.
B) She’s enjoying her coffee.
C)She’s having a chat with the man.
D) She’s inviting the man to sit down.
8. A) The woman is good at writing poetry.
B) The man is complimenting the woman.
C) The woman dislikes the man.
D) The man is horrible insensitive person.
9. A) He often plays golf.
B) He is going to slow down.
C) He always works hard.
D) He is living in poverty.
10. A) She strives for fame.
B) She is very famous.
C) She does a lot of thinking.
D) She lives a very hard life.
Section B
Questions 11 to 13 are based on the dialogue you have just heard
11. A) The economy is slowing down..
B) She may not be able to finish college..
C) She may be not able to find a job after college..
D) The tax is going to be raised..
12. A) It is on the verge of bankruptcy..
B) It is improving steadily..
C) It has experienced a rapid increase in its sales..
D) It is going downhill fast.
13. A) She will join the man’s company.
B) She will start her own business.
C) She will stay in her parent’s house.
D) She will try to find a job.
Section C
Passage one
Questions 14 to 17 are based on the passage you have just heard.
14. A) Nuclear reactors.
B) Fuel cells.
C) Gasoline.
D) Hydrogen.
15. A) It is clean.
B) It is cheap.
C) It produces water.
D) It is safe.
16. A) They will be made of new materials.
B) Luxury cars will become the standard.
C) They will cost a lot more money.
D) They will not arrive all in one piece.
17. A) Traditional cars will disappear from the roads.
B) High-tech cars will coexist with old vehicles.
C) The cost of a car will be much lower than today.
D) All kinds of new technologies will make it into our garages.
Passage two
Questions 18 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.
18. A) She was very kind towards the students.
B) She had racial prejudices.
C) She had a high sense of responsibility..
D) She did not trust some of the teachers.
19. A) To compliment her on her achievements.
B) To test her personally.
C) To give her a copy of the examination paper.
D) To make inquiries about an accident.
20. A) She took her fists and started punching her.
B) She smiled her thanks and backed off.
C) She boiled over with anger and refused her request..
D) She decided to quit the school.
Part II Reading comprehension (35 minutes)
Passage One
It’s a brand new world --- a world built around brands. Hard-charging, noise-making, culture-shaping brands are everywhere. They’re on supermarket shelves, of course, but also in business plans for .com startups and in the names of sports complexes. Brands are infiltrating (渗透)people’s everyday lives --- by sticking their logoes (商标) on clothes, in concert programs, on subway –station walls, even in elementary school classrooms .
We live in an age in which CBS newscasters wear Nike jackets on the air, in which Burger King and McDonald’s open kiosks(小亭) in elementary school lunchrooms, in which schools like Stanford University are endowed with a Yahoo! Founders Chair. But as brands reach (and then overreach) into every aspects of our lives, the companies behind them invite more questions, deeper scrutiny—and an inevitable backlash(强烈反应) by consumers.
“Our intellectual lives and our public spaces are being taken over by marketing ---and that has real implications for citizenship,” says author and activists Naomi Klien. “It’s important for any healthy culture to have public space--- a place where people are treated as citizens instead of as consumers. We’ve completely lost that space.
Since the mid-1980s ,as more and more companies have shifted from being about products to being about ideas – Starbucks isn’t selling coffee; It’s selling community!----those companies have poured more and more resources into marketing campaigns.
To pay for those campaigns, those same companies figured out ways to cut costs elsewhere, for example, by using contract labor at home and low-wage labor in developing countries. Contract laborers are hired on a temporary, per-assignment basis, and employers have no obligation to provide any benefits (such as health insurance) or long-term job security. This saves companies money but obviously puts workers in vulnerable situations. In the United States, contract labor has given rise to so-called McJobs, which employers and workers alike pretend are temporary----even though these jobs are usually held by adults who are trying to support families.
The massive expansion of marketing campaigns in the 1980s coincided with the reduction of government spending for schools and for museums. This made those institutions much too willing, even eager, to partner with private companies. But companies took advantage of the needs of those institutions, reaching too far, and overwhelming the civic space with their marketing agendas.
21. Which of the following does the author state as a factor in the increasing presence of brands in people’s lives?
A the aggressive nature of corporate marketing
B the lack of government funding for schools and museums
C the lack of government regulations of marketing methods
D the corporate funding of public s