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1、6月23日大学英语六级(CET-6)真题预测试卷(A卷)Part II Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) (15 minutes)Seven Steps to a More Fulfilling JobMany people today find themselves in unfulfilling work situations. In fact, one in four workers is dissatisfied with their current job, according to the recent “Plans for

2、 ” survey. Their career path may be financially rewarding, but it doesnt meet their emotional, social or creative needs. Theyre stuck, unhappy, and have no idea what to do about it, except move to another job.Mary Lyn Miller, veteran career consultant and founder of the Life and Career Clinic, says

3、that when most people are unhappy about their work, their first thought is to get a different job. Instead, Miller suggests looking at the possibility of a different life. Through her book, 8 Myths of Making a Living, as well as workshops, seminars and personal coaching and consulting, she has helpe

4、d thousands of dissatisfied workers reassess life and work.Like the way of Zen, which includes understanding of oneself as one really is, Miller encourages job seekers and those dissatisfied with work or life to examine their beliefs about work and recognize that “in many cases your beliefs are what

5、 brought you to where you are today.” You may have been raised to think that women were best at nurturing and caring and, therefore, should be teachers and nurses. So thats what you did. Or, perhaps you were brought up to believe that you should do what your father did, so you have taken over the fa

6、mily business, or become a dentist “just like dad.” If this sounds familiar, its probably time to look at the new possibilities for your future.Miller developed a 7-step process to help potential job seekers assess their current situation and beliefs, identify their real passion, and start on a jour

7、ney that allows them to pursue their passion through work.Step 1: Willingness to do something different.Breaking the cycle of doing what you have always done is one of the most difficult tasks for job seekers. Many find it difficult to steer away from a career path or make a change, even if it doesn

8、t feel right. Miller urges job seekers to open their minds to other possibilities beyond what they are currently doing.Step 2: Commitment to being who you are, not who or what someone wants you to be.Look at the gifts and talents you have and make a commitment to pursue those things that you love mo

9、st. If you love the social aspects of your job, but are stuck inside an office or “chained to your desk” most of the time, vow to follow your instinct and investigate alternative careers and work that allow you more time to interact with others. Dawn worked as a manager for a large retail clothing s

10、tore for several years. Though she had advanced within the company, she felt frustrated and longed to be involved with nature and the outdoors. She decided to go to school nights and weekends to pursue her true passion by earning her masters degree in forestry. She now works in the biotech forestry

11、division of a major paper company.Step 3: Self-definitionMiller suggests that once job seekers know who they are, they need to know how to sell themselves. “In the job market, you are a product. And just like a product, you most know the features and benefits that you have to offer a potential clien

12、t, or employer.” Examine the skills and knowledge that you have identify how they can apply to your desired occupation. Your qualities will exhibit to employers why they should hire you over other candidates.Step 4: Attain a level of self-honoring.Self-honoring or self-love may seem like an odd step

13、 for job hunters, but being able to accept yourself, without judgment, helps eliminate insecurities and will make you more self-assured. By accepting who you are all your emotions, hopes and dreams, your personality, and your unique way of being youll project more confidence when networking and talk

14、ing with potential employers. The power of self-honoring can help to break all the falsehoods you were programmed to believe those that made you feel that you were not good enough, or strong enough, or intelligent enough to do what you truly desire.Step 5: Vision.Miller suggests that job seekers dev

15、elop a vision that embraces the answer to “What do I really want to do?” one should create a solid statement in a dozen or so sentences that describe in detail how they see their life related to work. For instance, the secretary who longs to be an actress describes a life that allows her to express

16、her love of Shakespeare on stage. A real estate agent, attracted to his current job because her loves fixing up old homes, describes buying properties that need a little tender loving care to make them more saleable.Step 6: Appropriate risk.Some philosophers believe that the way to enlightenment com

17、es through facing obstacles and difficulties. Once people discover their passion, many are too scared to do anything about it. Instead, they do nothing. With this step, job seekers should assess what they are willing to give up, or risk, in pursuit of their dream. For one working mom, that meant tak

18、ing night classes to learn new computer-aided design skills, while still earning a salary and keeping her day job. For someone else, it may mean quitting his or her job, taking out loan and going back to school full time. Youll move one step closer to your ideal work life if you identify how much ri

19、sk you are willing to take and the sacrifices you are willing to make.Step 7: Action.Some teachers of philosophy describe action in this way, “If one wants to get to the top of a mountain, just sitting at the foot thinking about it will not bring one there. It is by making the effort of climbing up

20、the mountain, step by step, that eventually the summit is reached.” All too often, it is the lack of action that ultimately holds people back from attaining their ideals. Creating a plan and taking it one step at a time can lead to new and different job opportunities. Job-hunting tasks gain added me

21、aning as you sense their importance in your quest for a more meaningful work life. The plan can include researching industries and occupations, talking to people who are in your desired area of work, taking classes, or accepting volunteer work in your targeted field.Each of these steps will lead you

22、 on a journey to a happier and more rewarding work life. After all, it is the journey, not the destination, that is most important.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。1.According to the recent “Plans for ” survey, most people are unhappy with their current jobs.2.Mary Lyn Millers job is to advise people on their life

23、 and career.3.Mary Lyn Miller herself was once quite dissatisfied with her own work.4.Many people find it difficult to make up their minds whether to change their career path.5.According to Mary Lyn Miller, people considering changing their careers should commit themselves to the pursuit of _.6.In t

24、he job market, job seekers need to know how to sell themselves like _.7.During an interview with potential employers, self-honoring or self-love may help a job seeker to show _.8.Mary Lyn Miller suggests that a job seeker develop a vision that answers the question “_”9.Many people are too scared to

25、pursue their dreams because they are unwilling to _.10.What ultimately holds people back from attaining their ideals is _.Part IV Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth) (25 minutes)Section AGoogle is a world-famous company, with its headquarters in Mountain View, California. It was set up in a Sil

26、icon Valley garage in 1998, and inflated (膨胀) with the Internet bubble. Even when everything around it collapsed the company kept on inflating. Googles search engine is so widespread across the world that search became Google, and google became a verb. The world fell in love with the effective, fasc

27、inatingly fast technology.Google owes much of its success to the brilliance of S. Brin and L. Page, but also to a series of fortunate events. It was Page who, at Stanford in 1996, initiated the academic project that eventually became Googles search engine. Brin, who had met Page at a student orienta

28、tion a year earlier, joined the project early on. They were both Ph.D. candidates when they devised the search engine which was better than the rest and, without any marketing, spread by word of mouth from early adopters to, eventually, your grandmother.Their breakthrough, simply put, was that when

29、their search engine crawled the Web, it did more than just look for word matches, it also tallied (记录) and ranked a host of other critical factors like how websites link to one another. That delivered far better results than anything else. Brin and Page meant to name their creation Googol (the mathe

30、matical term for the number 1 followed by 100 zeroes), but someone misspelled the word so it stuck as Google. They raised money from prescient (有先见之明旳) professors and venture capitalists, and moved off campus to turn Google into business. Perhaps their biggest stroke of luck came early on when they

31、tried to sell their technology to other search engines, but no one met their price, and they built it up on their own.The next breakthrough came in , when Google figured out how to make money with its invention. It had lots of users, but almost no one was paying. The solution turned out to be advert

32、ising, and its not an exaggeration to say that Google is now essentially an advertising company, given that thats the source of nearly all its revenue. Today it is a giant advertising company, worth $100 billion.47.Apart from a series of fortunate events, what is it that has made Google so successfu

33、l?48.Googles search engine originated from _ started by L. Page.49.How did Googles search engine spread all over the world?50.Brin and Page decided to set up their own business because no one would _.51.The revenue of the Google company is largely generated from _.Section BPassage OneYou hear the re

34、frain all the time: the U.S. economy looks good statistically, but it doesnt feel good. Why doesnt ever-greater wealth promote ever-greater happiness? It is a question that dates at least to the appearance in 1958 of The Affluent (富裕旳) Society by John Kenneth Galbraith, who died recently at 97.The A

35、ffluent Society is a modern classic because it helped define a new moment in the human condition. For most of history, “hunger, sickness, and cold” threatened nearly everyone, Galbraith wrote. “Poverty was found everywhere in that world. Obviously it is not of ours.” After World War II, the dread of

36、 another Great Depression gave way to an economic boom. In the 1930s unemployment had averaged 18.2 percent; in the 1950s it was 4.5 percent.To Galbraith, materialism had gone mad and would breed discontent. Through advertising, companies conditioned consumers to buy things they didnt really want or

37、 need. Because so much spending was artificial, it would be unfulfilling. Meanwhile, government spending that would make everyone better off was being cut down because people instinctivelyand wronglylabeled government only as “a necessary evil.”Its often said that only the rich are getting ahead; ev

38、eryone else is standing still or falling behind. Well, there are many undeserving richoverpaid chief executives, for instance. But over any meaningful period, most peoples incomes are increasing. From 1995 to , inflation-adjusted average family income rose 14.3 percent, to $43,200. people feel “sque

39、ezed” because their rising incomes often dont satisfy their rising wantsfor bigger homes, more health care, more education, faster Internet connections.The other great frustration is that it has not eliminated insecurity. People regard job stability as part of their standard of living. As corporate

40、layoffs increased, that part has eroded. More workers fear theyve become “the disposable American,” as Louis Uchitelle puts it in his book by the same name.Because so much previous suffering and social conflict stemmed from poverty, the arrival of widespread affluence suggested utopian (乌托邦式旳) possi

41、bilities. Up to a point, affluence succeeds. There is much les physical misery than before. People are better off. Unfortunately, affluence also creates new complaints and contradictions.Advanced societies need economic growth to satisfy the multiplying wants of their citizens. But the quest for gro

42、wth lets loose new anxieties and economic conflicts that disturb the social order. Affluence liberates the individual, promising that everyone can choose a unique way to self-fulfillment. But the promise is so extravagant that it predestines many disappointments and sometimes inspires choices that h

43、ave anti-social consequences, including family breakdown and obesity (肥胖症). Statistical indicators of happiness have not risen with incomes.Should we be surprised? Not really. Weve simply reaffirmed an old truth: the pursuit of affluence does not always end with happiness.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。52.What q

44、uestion does John Kenneth Galbraith raise in his book The Affluent Society?A) Why statistics dont tell the truth about the economy.B) Why affluence doesnt guarantee happiness.C) How happiness can be promoted today.D) What lies behind an economic boom.53.According to Galbraith, people feel discontent

45、ed because _.A) public spending hasnt been cut down as expectedB) the government has proved to be a necessary evilC) they are in fear of another Great DepressionD) materialism has run wild in modern society54.Why do people feel squeezed when their average income rises considerably?A) Their material

46、pursuits have gone far ahead of their earnings.B) Their purchasing power has dropped markedly with inflation.C) The distribution of wealth is uneven between the r5ich and the poor.D) Health care and educational cost have somehow gone out of control.55.What does Louis Uchitelle mean by “the disposabl

47、e American” (Line 3, Para. 5)?A) Those who see job stability as part of their living standard.B) People full of utopian ideas resulting from affluence.C) People who have little say in American politics.D) Workers who no longer have secure jobs.56.What has affluence brought to American society?A) Ren

48、ewed economic security.B) A sense of self-fulfillment.C) New conflicts and complaints.D) Misery and anti-social behavior.Passage TwoQuestions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage.The use of deferential (敬重旳) language is symbolic of the Confucian ideal of the woman, which dominates conservativ

49、e gender norms in Japan. This ideal presents a woman who withdraws quietly to the background, subordinating her life and needs to those of her family and its male head. She is a dutiful daughter, wife, and mother, master of the domestic arts. The typical refined Japanese woman excels in modesty and

50、delicacy; she “treads softly (谨言慎行)in the world,” elevating feminine beauty and grace to an art form.Nowadays, it is commonly observed that young women are not conforming to the feminine linguistic (语言旳) ideal. They are using fewer of the very deferential “womens” forms, and even using the few stron

51、g forms that are know as “mens.” This, of course, attracts considerable attention and has led to an outcry in the Japanese media against the defeminization of womens language. Indeed, we didnt hear about “mens language” until people began to respond to girls appropriation of forms normally reserved

52、for boys and men. There is considerable sentiment about the “corruption” of womens languagewhich of course is viewed as part of the loss of feminine ideals and moralityand this sentiment is crystallized by nationwide opinion polls that are regularly carried out by the media.Yoshiko Matsumoto has arg

53、ued that young women probably never used as many of the highly deferential forms as older women. This highly polite style is no doubt something that young women have been expected to “grow into”after all, it is assign not simply of femininity, but of maturity and refinement, and its use could be tak

54、en to indicate a change in the nature of ones social relations as well. One might well imagine little girls using exceedingly polite forms when playing house or imitating older womenin a fashion analogous to little girls use of a high-pitched voice to do “teacher talk” or “mother talk” in role play.

55、The fact that young Japanese women are using less deferential language is a sure sign of changeof social change and of linguistic change. But it is most certainly not a sign of the “masculization” of girls. In some instances, it may be a sign that girls are making the same claim to authority as boys

56、 and men, but that is very different from saying that they are trying to be “masculine.” Katsue Reynolds has argued that girls nowadays are using more assertive language strategies in order to be able to compete with boys in schools and out. Social change also brings not simply different positions f

57、or women and girls, but different relations to life stages, and adolescent girls are participating in new subcultural forms. Thus what may, to an older speaker, seem like “masculine” speech may seem to an adolescent like “liberated” or “hip” speech.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。57.The first paragraph describes

58、in detail _.A) the standards set for contemporary Japanese womenB) the Confucian influence on gender norms in JapanC) the stereotyped role of women in Japanese familiesD) the norms for traditional Japanese women to follow58.What change has been observed in todays young Japanese women?A) They pay les

59、s attention to their linguistic behavior.B) The use fewer of the deferential linguistic forms.C) They confuse male and female forms of language.D) They employ very strong linguistic expressions.59.How do some people react to womens appropriation of mens language forms as reported in the Japanese med

60、ia?A) They call for a campaign to stop the defeminization.B) The see it as an expression of womens sentiment.C) They accept it as a modern trend.D) They express strong disapproval.60.According to Yoshiko Matsumoto, the linguistic behavior observed in todays young women _.A) may lead to changes in so

61、cial relationsB) has been true of all past generationsC) is viewed as a sign of their maturityD) is a result of rapid social progress61.The author believes that the use of assertive language by young Japanese women is _.A) a sure sign of their defeminization and maturationB) an indication of their d

62、efiance against social changeC) one of their strategies to compete in a male-dominated societyD) an inevitable trend of linguistic development in Japan todayPart V Cloze (15 minutes)Directions:There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D

63、) on the right side of the paper. You should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.Part V CLOZE Historically, humans get serious about avoiding disasters only after one has just struck them. _62_ tha

64、t logic, should have been a breakthrough year for rational behavior. With the memory of 9/11 still _63_ in their minds, Americans watched hurricane Katrina, the most expensive disaster in U.S. history, on _64_ TV. Anyone who didnt know it before should have learned that bad things can happen. And th

65、ey are made _65_ worse by our willful blindness to risk as much as our _66_ to work together before everything goes to hell.Granted, some amount of delusion (错觉) is probably part of the _67_ condition. In A.D. 63, Pompeii was seriously damaged by an earthquake, and the locals immediately went to work _68_, in the same spotuntil they were buried altogether by