英语六级CET6真题.docx

1、英语六级CET6真题2011年12月大学英语六级考试模拟试题及答案 预测卷（1）Part Writing (30 minutes)Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled To Curb Spending? You should write at least 150 words following the outline given below:1. 现在许多大学生花钱大手大脚2. 有人认为社会整体生活水平提高了，大学生花钱多一些无可厚非3. 你的看法2 快速阅读P

2、art 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 on Answer Sheet 1.For questions 14, mark Y (for YES)if the statement agrees with the information given in the passage; N (for NO)if

3、the statement contradicts the information given in the passage; NG (for NOT GIVEN)if the information is not given in the passage. For questions 510, complete the sentences with the information given in the passage. Even as the economy improves, a jobless executive may face up to a year or more of un

4、employment. This is a lot of time, especially for hard-charging high-performers who are not used to having any free time. While some job seekers spend hundredseven thousandsof hours discovering daytime television, others seem to thrive on activities that boost their professional careers or resolve f

5、amily issues when they arent working.Having an extended period of free time in the prime of ones life can in fact be a unique opportunity to focus on volunteer service, professional education or personal growth.Community InvolvementFor Lisa Perez, the wakeup call was burned pork chops. An executive

6、who previously hadnt been particularly interested in home and health, she had become obsessed with homemaking during a stint of unemployment.She realized that cleaning and organizing her home wasnt helping her job search. Nevertheless, I made lists of 50 things to do every day, says Ms. Perez, a pol

7、itical and public-relations consultant in Scottsdale, Ariz. My house was spotless, just so Id have something to do.One day, her boyfriend didnt arrive on time for dinner because he had to work late, and her pork chops were ruined. She threw a fit. Id never been a person like that, she says. So I dec

8、ided to stop feeling sorry for myself, and go out and do something productive.Ms. Perez, 35, resolved to become an active volunteer for the duration of her search. She gave her time to a health-care concern, a housing program and a political campaign.The work bolstered her self-confidence. Volunteer

9、ing takes the focus off of you. One thing you have thats still valuable is your time. And, of course, you learn that there are thousands of people with a life thats much worse than yours, she says.Volunteer assignments are also great ways to meet powerful and well-connected people. Over a six-month

10、period, her volunteering evolved into working as a paid consultant and then as a full-time employee, a job she still holds today. In all, she was unemployed for eight months. Before her job loss, she thought she didnt have time to volunteer while working. Now, even though I have a demanding job, I s

11、till volunteer, because of what I got out of it, says Ms. Perez. Continuing EducationGene Bellavance, a 36-year-old information-technology project manager, took another route during his unemployment. When he was laid off from a steel company near Cleveland, he knew his immediate prospects were bleak

12、. He expected his search to take a year. He faced a decision: take a job that would set back his career or hold out for an offer he really wanted. Mr. Bellavance, single and virtually debt free, shifted his finances into survival mode. He cashed out his pension, sold his house, unloaded things he di

13、dnt need at garage sales, and rented an apartment with a roommate. Then, he says, I signed up for every benefit I could find.But he wasnt just waiting out the year. He spent the rest of his search updating his skills, including becoming certified in new database and project-management software. You

14、have to invest in yourself, Mr. Bellavance says. I estimated what technology was going to be the most beneficial and chose applications that were going to be pervasive, that were right for my market, and that were going to ensure top pay.In addition to income from the occasional IT-consulting assign

15、ment, he relied on a combination of displaced-worker-retraining grants and unemployment benefits. I went out and found the classes, submitted the paperwork, and dealt with the bureaucracy. You have to stay after them, keeping your benefits moving forward. Its up to you to make it work with your over

16、all transition plan, he says.His job search was one month shy of the full year hed expected. He looked for work during his training and says he would have finished the certification programs even if hed been hired before completing them.People should not feel guiltyabout accepting government aid, he

17、 says. I saw this in a lot of people. They felt they were some kind of loser for taking benefits. My advice is: Get all you can. Youve been paying for these programs in your entire career, and you may as well start to benefit from them.Family MattersIn addition to pursuing training or volunteering,

18、some displaced careerists use their time off work to attend to family matters. Many executives rediscover their children or find time to help their parents. Stanford Rappaport held three jobs in San Francisco, including high-tech and teaching positions. When he was laid off from the high-tech job la

19、st year, he knew it might be a long slog before he could get another post like it in the Bay Area. I was able to do the math, says Mr. Rappaport, 46. The number of people laid off: huge; and the number of available jobs: miniscule. At the time, I thought it might be two or three years before the tec

20、h industry recovered.Mr. Rappaports remaining job, a part-time faculty position with City College of San Francisco, didnt pay enough to support him. After a couple of months of searching with no results, he decided to escape the Northern California jobs meltdown. My plan, he says, was to get out of

21、an expensive living situation, and either seek work in another section of the U.S. or overseas, for those two years. Mr. Rappaport, who speaks five languages, had worked overseas before.Before he found an assignment, his Arkansas-based mother was diagnosed with a serious chronic illness, and he was

22、called into duty as a son. Mr. Rappaport was able to help his mother get her affairs in order not to interrupt his search by using a San Francisco mail drop and cellphone. I continued to look for work in California while I was in Fayetteville, Ark., helping my mother through this crisis.He took his

23、mother to medical appointments, made repairs on her house, bought her a better car, and straightened out her legal and financial affairs. I even got to go through my fathers effects, which in the five years since he had died were simply piled in boxes in his office, he says. Mr. Rappaports stay in A

24、rkansas lasted six months. Its amazing that at this stage I had the opportunity to spend a significant amount of time with my mother and improve her life and get a lot of things done for her. Most people never have that opportunity. Im very thankful that I had the chance. It was absolutely worth it,

25、 he says. One of the unexpected benefits was the huge boost in confidence he gained from his role as caregiver. Hed been feeling depressed and defeated when he left California, but after returning, he felt renewed. He landed a job with a former employer after returning to San Francisco and remains a

26、 part-time faculty member. Discovery and ExplorationInstead of spending time off lamenting your unemployed status, ask yourself: Is there something Ive always wanted to do but havent because of the demands of my job? Felice Fisk, a 29-year-old in Seattle, recently left an account-manager position at

27、 a contract-furniture company. During seven months of unemployment, she took an interest in fine-art painting and completed 18 pieces before returning to work. I found the art work, or some kind of creative outlet, to be really beneficial, she says. Shes now an interior designer for an interior-desi

28、gn firm.Michael Ross, 42, a former IT administrator in El Cerrito, Calif., recently spent his 10 months of unemployment playing guitar and exploring his lifelong interest in scriptwriting and the movie business. After 18 years at my former employer and how hard I had worked, I knew I had to recover,

29、 to get restored, he says. I looked at this as an opportunity, rather than a penalty. This was very much about clearing space for me.At the executive level, even a very efficient and successful job search may be quite lengthy. It makes sense to spend that time in an enriching and productive manner.

30、These job seekers pursued service, continuing education and shoring up family bonds. How youll look back on a period of unemployment depends on what you do with it. 1. This passage mainly tells that being unemployed is not all bad. 2. Lisa Perez found a new interest in homemaking during the period o

31、f unemployment.3. Lisa Perez was always optimistic during the period of her unemployment.4. After she got a new job, Lisa Perez regretted that she had not done volunteering work earlier.5. Unemployment means a lot of time, especially for those hard-charging executives who are not used to having any

32、time.6. Being a volunteer is helpful because volunteer assignments can provide you with chances to meet people.7. Mr. Bellavance cashed out his pension, sold his house and unloaded things he didnt need at garage after losing his job in order to change his finances into mode.8. When unemployed, some careerists take the opportunity to family matters in addition to pursuing training or volunteering.9. Th