六级考前冲刺试题一

六级考前冲刺试题一

Part I Writing (30 minutes)

Directions:For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled Should Retirement Age Be Raised?You should write at least 150 words according to the outline given below.

1. 有人赞成提高退休年龄

2. 有人则反对

3. 你的看法

Should Retirement Age Be Raised?

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Part II 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 1-7, choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). For questions 8-10, complete the sentences with the information given in the passage.

12 Things I‟ve Learned From Traveling Around the World for Three Years

On March 13, 2007, I handed over the keys to my house, put my possessions in storage and headed out to travel around the world with nothing but a backpack, my laptop and a camera.

Three and a half years and 70 countries later, I‟ve gotten the equivalent of a Ph.D in general knowledge about the people and places of Planet Earth.

Here are some of the things I‟ve learned:

1) People are generally good.

Many people are afraid of the world beyond their door, yet the vast majority of humans are not thieves, murderers or rapists. They are people just like you and me who are trying to get by, to help their families and go about living their lives. There is no race, religion or nationality that is exempt from this rule. How they go about living their lives might be different, but their general goals are the same.

2) The media lies.

If you only learned about other countries from the news, you‟d think the world wa s a horrible place. The media will always sensationalize and simplify a story. I was in East Timor when the assassination attempts on President JoséRamos-Horta, and Prime Minister Xanana Gusmão in 2008. The stories in the news the next day were filed from Jakarta or Kuala Lumpur, not Dili. It was all secondhand news. I was in Bangkok during the political protests this year, but you‟d never have any idea they were taking places if you were not in the immediate area where the protests were taking place. The media makes us scared of the rest of the world, and we shouldn‟t be.

3) The world is boring.

If there isn‟t a natural disaster or an armed conflict, most places will never even be mentioned in the news. When is the last time you‟ve heard Laos or Oman menti oned in a news story? What makes for good news are exceptional events, not ordinary events. Most of the world, just like your neighborhood, is pretty boring. It can be amazingly interesting, but to the locals, they just go about living their lives.