六级考前冲刺试题一

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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?

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.

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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 was a horrible

place. The media will always sensationalize and simplify a story. I was in East Timor when the assassination attempts on President José Ramos-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 mentioned 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.

4) Americans don’t travel.

This stereotype is true. Americans don t travel overseas as much as Brits, Dutch, Germans,

Canadians or Scandinavians. There are some good reasons for this (big country, short vacation time) and bad ones (fear and ignorance). We don t have a gap year culture like they have in the UK and we don t tend to take vacations longer than a week. I can t think of a single place I visited where I met Americans in numbers anywhere close to our relative population.

5) The rest of the world isn’t full of germs.

Many people travel with their own supply of water and an industrial vat of hand sanitizer (消毒

剂). I can say in full honestly that I have never used hand sanitizer or gone out of my way to avoid contact with germs during my travels. It is true that in many places you can get nasty illnesses from drinking untreated water, but I don t think this means you have be a traveling Howard Hughes. Unless you have a particularly weak immune system or other illness, I wouldn t worry too much about local bugs.

6) You don’t need a lot stuff.

Condensing my life down from a 3,000 sq/ft house to a backpack was a lesson in knowing what

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really matters. I found I could get by just fine without 97% of the things I had sitting around my home. Now, if I purchase something, I think long and hard about it because anything I buy I will have to physically carry around. Because I have fewer possessions, I am more likely to buy things of higher quality and durability.

7) Traveling doesn’t have to be expensive.

Yes, if you insist on staying in five-star hotels and luxury resorts, travel can be very expensive.

However, it is possible to visit many parts of the world and only spend $10-30 per day. In addition to traveling cheap, you can also earn money on the road teaching English or working on an organic farm. I ve met many people who have been able to travel on a little more than $1,000/month. I met one man from the Ukraine who spent a month in Egypt on $300.

8) Culture changes.

Many people go overseas expecting to have an “authentic” experience, which really means they

want to confirm some stereotype they have in their mind of happy people living in huts and villages. They are often disappointed to find urban people with technology. Visiting a different place doesn t mean visiting a different time. It is the 21st Century, and most people live in it. They are as likely to wear traditional clothes as Americans are to wear stove top hats like Abraham Lincoln. Cultures have always changed as new ideas, religions, technologies sprang up and different cultures mingled and traded with each other. Today is no different.

9) Everyone is proud of where they are from.

When you meet someone local in another country, most people will be quick to tell you

something about their city/province/country that they are proud of. Pride and patriotism seem to be universal values. I reme …… 此处隐藏：29753字，全部文档内容请下载后查看。喜欢就下载吧 ……