六级考前热身试题二

大学英语六级考试考前热身试题二

Part I Writing (30 minutes)

Directions:For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled Credit Cards on Campus. You should write at least 150 words following the outline given below.

1. 有人认为信用卡进入大学校园是件好事

2. 也有人持反对意见

3. 你的想法

Credit Cards on Campus

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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.

The Value of Writing Well

It‟s that time of year again. No, not “the holiday season”. I mean, it is holiday time, but for professors it doesn‟t start feeling like holiday time until final grades are in and the books are closed on another semester. No, for me, it‟s paper-grading time, the time of year when I‟m reminded over and over of the importance of good writing skills--and of their rarity.

The ability to write well is not a gift. Sure, the special something that sets apart a Tolstoy or Shakespeare or Salman Rushdie or Isabel Allende is a gift, a talent born of disposition, experience, and commitment. But just to be able to communicate clearly with the written word takes no special talent; it‟s a skill like any other.

Well, not exactly like any other. Because the words we use to write with are the same words we use to think with, learning to write well has ramifications that go beyond the merely technical. As we improve our writing ability, we improve our ability to think—to build an argument, to frame issues in compelling ways, to weave apparently unrelated facts into a coherent whole.

And despite the recurring hand-wringing and chest-beating about the “end of literacy” and the “death of the printed word”, the reality is that we write more than ever these days. While it‟s a rare perso n who sits down with pen and paper in hand and writes a letter to a friend or loved one, we pour emails into the ether at an astounding rate. We text message, tweet, instant message, blog, comment, and otherwise shoot words at each other in a near-constant flow of communication. We annotate group portraits, LOL-ify cat pictures, and tag... well, everything. At work, we write letters, proposals, PowerPoint presentations, Business requirement documents, memos, speeches, mission statements, position papers, operating procedures, manuals, brochures, package copy, press releases, and dozens of