最新冲刺英语六级考试大作战模拟题.docx

1、最新冲刺英语六级考试大作战模拟题最新冲刺英语六级考试大作战-模拟题Part Writing (30 minutes)Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essayentitled On Paying back Student Loans. You should write at least 150 words following the outline given below. 1. 现今，在高校有许多大学生通过助学贷款完成自己的学业2. 但是有些学生毕业后没有能力或拒绝按时还贷3. 我认

2、为贷款的学生应如何对待还贷问题On Paying back Student LoansPart 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 1-4, markY (for YES) if the statement agrees with the in

3、formation given 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. For questions 5-10, complete the sentences with the information given in the passage. Reading Babys MindThe helpless, seeming

4、ly awkward infant staring up at you from his little bed, has a lot more going on inside his head than you ever imagined. A wealth of new research is leading child psychologists to rethink their long-held beliefs about the emotional and intellectual abilities of even very young babies. Science is now

5、 giving us a much different picture of what goes on inside their hearts and heads. Long before they form their first words or attempt the feat of sitting up, they are already mastering complex emotions-jealousy, empathy (移情), frustration-that were once thought to be learned much later. A New Baby Re

6、search Little Victoria Bateman is blue-eyed and as cute a baby as there ever was. At 6 months, she is also trusting and unsuspecting, which is a good thing, because otherwise shed never go along with whats about to happen. Its a sunny June afternoon in Lubbock, Texas, and inside the Human Sciences l

7、ab at Texas Tech University, Victorias mother is settling her daughter into a high chair, where she is the latest subject in an ongoing experiment aimed at understanding the way babies think. Sybil Hart, an associate professor of human development and leader of the study, trains video cameras on mot

8、her and daughter. Everything is set. Hart hands the mother, Cheryl Bateman, a childrens book, Elmo Pops In, and instructs her to engross herself in its pages. Just have a conversation with me about the book, Hart tells her. The most important thing is, do not look at Victoria. As the two women chat,

9、 Victoria looks around the room, feeling a little bored. After a few minutes, Hart leaves the room and returns cradling a lifelike baby doll. Dramatically, Hart places it in Cheryl Batemans arms, and tells her to embrace the doll while continuing to ignore Victoria. Thats OK, little baby, Bateman co

10、os, hugging and rocking the doll. Victoria is not bored anymore. At first, she cracks her best smile. When that doesnt work, she begins kicking. But her mom pays her no mind. Thats when Victoria loses it. Soon shes crying so hard it looks like she might spit up. Hart rushes in. OK, were done, she sa

11、ys, and takes back the doll. Cheryl Bateman goes to comfort her daughter. Ive never seen her react like that to anything, she says. Over the last 10 months, Hart has repeated the scene hundreds of times. Its the same in nearly every case: tiny babies, overwhelmed with jealousy. Even Hart was stunned

12、 to find that infants could experience an emotion, which, until recently, was thought to be way beyond their grasp. Findings of Baby Research The new research is sure to confuse new parents-see, Junior is a genius-but its more than just an academic exercise. Armed with the new information, pediatric

13、ians (儿科医生) are starting to change the way they evaluate their youngest patients. In addition to tracking physical development, they are now focusing much more deeply on emotional advancement. The research shows how powerful emotional well-being is to a childs future health. A baby who fails to meet

14、 certain key emotional milestones may have trouble learning to speak, read and, later, do well in school. By reading emotional responses, doctors have begun to discover ways to tell if a baby as young as 3 months is showing early signs of possible psychological disorders, including depression, anxie

15、ty, learning disabilities and perhaps autism. One of the earliest emotions that even tiny babies display is, admirably enough, empathy. In fact, concern for others may be hard-wired into babies brains. Place a newborn down next to another crying infant, and chances are, both babies will soon be wail

16、ing (悲叹) away. People have always known that babies cry when they hear other babies cry, says Martin Hoffman, a psychology professor at New York University who did the first studies on infant empathy in the 1970s. The question was, why are they crying? Does it mean that the baby is truly concerned f

17、or his fellow human, or just annoyed by the racket? A recent study conducted in Italy, which built on Hoffmans own work, has largely settled the question. Researchers played for infants tapes of other babies crying. As predicted, that was enough to start the tears flowing. But when researchers playe

18、d babies, recordings of their own cries, they rarely began crying themselves. The verdict:there is some empathy in place, right from birth, Hoffman says. The intensity of the emotion tends to fade over time. Babies older than 6 months no longer cry but grimace (作苦相) at the discomfort of others. By 1

19、3 to 15 months, babies tend to take matters into their own hands. Theyll try to comfort a crying playmate. What I find most charming is when, even if the two mothers are present, theyll bring their own mother over to help, Hoffman says. Part of that empathy may come from another early-baby skill, th

20、e ability to discern emotions from the facial expressions of the people around them. Most textbooks still say that babies younger than 6 months dont recognize emotions, says Diane Montague, assistant professor of psychology at LaSalle University in Philadelphia. To put that belief to the test, Monta

21、gue came up with a twist on every infants favorite game, and recruited dozens of 4-month-olds to play along. She began by peeking around a cloth with a big smile on her face. Predictably, the babies were delighted, and stared at her intently-the time-tested way to tell if a baby is interested. On th

22、e fourth peek, though, Montague emerged with a sad look on her face. This time, the response was much different. They not only looked away, she says, but wouldnt look back even when she began smiling again. Refusing to make eye contact is a classic baby sign of distress. An angry face got their atte

23、ntion once again, but their faces showed no pleasure. They seemed primed to be alert, even vigilant, Montague says. I realize thats speculative in regard to infants. . . I think it shows that babies younger than 6 months find meaning in expressions. They are also far more sophisticated intellectuall

24、y than we once believed. Babies, as young as 4 months, have advanced powers of deduction and an ability to understand the intricate patterns. They have a surprisingly visual palette(燃料，调色板), which enables them to notice small differences, especially in faces, that adults and older children lose the

25、ability to see. Until a baby is 3 months old, he can recognize a photograph of his mother just as quickly as a photo in which everything is in the right place. Challenges and Dangers of Baby ResearchThis might be a good place to pause for a word about the challenges and dangers of baby research. Sin

26、ce the subjects cant speak for themselves, figuring out whats going on inside their heads is often a matter of reading their faces and body language. If this seems speculative, its not. Over decades of trial and error, researchers have fine-tuned their observation skills and zeroed in on numerous co

27、nsistent baby responses to various stimuli: how long they stare at an object, what they reach out for and what makes them recoil in fear or disgust can often tell experienced researchers everything they need to know. More recently, scientists have added EEGs and laser eye tracking, which allow more

28、precise readings. 1. The passage is mainly about those researches that focus on the emotional and intellectual abilities of those very young babies. 2. The purpose of the experiment on Victoria Bateman is to find out how important the mothers love is to her baby. 3. In the experiment, Victoria Batem

29、an cried because she thought that her mother didnt love her any more. 4. Only through reading emotional responses can doctors tell whether a 3-month baby will get possible psychological disorders. 5. Pediatricians are now paying less attention to physical development of their baby patients but more

30、to _. 6. Hoffmans study revealed that babies are born to show other crying babies _. 7. The findings of Dianes test demonstrated the babys ability to recognize _. 8. It is amazing to find that the visual palette of a baby helps him to notice _. 9. As for the challenges, those researchers have to obt

31、ain those findings about babies mind by reading _. 10. In order to gain more precise readings about babies mind, scientists have adopted the skills of EEGs and _. Part Listening Comprehension (35 minutes)Section A Directions: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversati

32、ons. At the end of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A), B), C) and D), and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line throug