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1、 2023年6月大学英语六级考试真题 Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled The Certificate Craze. You should write at least 150 words following the outline given below. 1.现在很多人热衷于各类证书考试 2.其目的各不一样 3.在我看来 The Certificate Craze 留意：此局部试题在答题卡1上。 Part II Reading Comprehension
2、 (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 sen tences wi
3、th the information given in the passage. Minority Report American universities are accepting more minorities than ever. Graduating them is another matter. Barry Mills, the president of Bowdoin College, was justifiably proud of Bowdoins efforts to recruit minority students. Since 2023 the small, elit
4、e liberal arts school in Brunswick, Maine, has boosted the proportion of so-called under-represented minority students in entering freshman classes from 8% to 13%. It is our responsibility to reach out and attract students to come to our kinds of places, he told a NEWSWEEK reporter. But Bowdoin has
5、not done quite as well when it comes to actually graduating minorities. While 9 out of 10 white students routinely get their diplomas within six years, only 7 out of 10 black students made it to graduation day in several recent classes. If you look at who enters college, it now looks like America, s
6、ays Hilary Pennington, director of postsecondary programs for the Bill Melinda Gates Foundation, which has closely studied enrollment patterns in higher education. But if you look at who walks across the stage for a diploma, its still largely the white, upper-income population. The United States onc
7、e had the highest graduation rate of any nation. Now it stands 10th. For the first time in American history, there is the risk that the rising generation will be less well educated than the previous one. The graduation rate among 25- to 34-year-olds is no better than the rate for the 55- to 64-year-
8、olds who were going to college more than 30 years ago. Studies show that more and more poor and non-white students want to graduate from college but their graduation rates fall far short of their dreams. The graduation rates for blacks, Latinos, and Native Americans lag far behind the graduation rat
9、es for whites and Asians. As the minority population grows in the United States, low college graduation rates become a threat to national prosperity. The problem is pronounced at public universities. In 2023 the University of Wisconsin-Madison one of the top five or so prestigious public universitie
10、s graduated 81% of its white students within six years, but only 56% of its blacks. At less-selective state schools, the numbers get worse. During the same time frame, the University of Northern Iowa graduated 67% of its white students, but only 39% of its blacks. Community colleges have low graduat
11、ion rates generally but rock-bottom rates for minorities. A recent review of California community colleges found that while a third of the Asian students picked up their degrees, only 15% of African-Americans did so as well. Private colleges and universities generally do better, partly because they
12、offer smaller classes and more personal attention. But when it comes to a significant graduation gap, Bowdoin has company. Nearby Colby College logged an 18-point difference between white and black graduates in 2023 and 25 points in 2023. Middlebury College in Vermont, another top school, had a 19-p
13、oint gap in 2023 and a 22-point gap in 2023. The most selective private schools Harvard, Yale, and Princeton show almost no gap between black and white graduation rates. But that may have more to do with their ability to select the best students. According to data gathered by Harvard Law School prof
14、essor Lani Guinier, the most selective schools are more likely to choose blacks who have at least one immigrant parent from Africa or the Caribbean than black students who are descendants of American slaves. Higher education has been able to duck this issue for years, particularly the more selective
15、 schools, by saying the responsibility is on the individual student, says Pennington of the Gates Foundation. If they fail, its their fault. Some critics blame affirmative action students admitted with lower test scores and grades from shaky high schools often struggle at elite schools. But a bigger
16、 problem may be that poor high schools often send their students to colleges for which they are undermatched: they could get into more elite, richer schools, but instead go to community colleges and low-rated state schools that lack the resources to help them. Some schools out for profit cynically i
17、ncrease tuitions and count on student loans and federal aid to foot the bill knowing full well that the students wont make it. The school keeps the money, but the kid leaves with loads of debt and no degree and no ability to get a better job. Colleges are not holding up their end, says Amy Wilkins o
18、f the Education Trust. A college education is getting ever more expensive. Since 1982 tuitions have been rising at roughly twice the rate of inflation. In 2023 the net cost of attending a four-year public university after financial aid equaled 28% of median (中间的)family income, while a four-year priv
19、ate university cost 76% of median family income. More and more scholarships are based on merit, not need. Poorer students are not always the best-informed consumers. Often they wind up deeply in debt or simply unable to pay after a year or two and must drop out. There once was a time when universiti
20、es took pride in their dropout rates. Professors would begin the year by saying, Look to the right and look to the left. One of you is not going to be here by the end of the year. But such a Darwinian spirit is beginning to give way as at least a few colleges face up to the graduation gap. At the Un
21、iversity of Wisconsin-Madison, the gap has been roughly halved over the last three years. The university has poured resources into peer counseling to help students from inner-city schools adjust to the rigor (严格要求)and faster pace of a university classroom and also to help minority students overcome
22、the stereotype that they are less qualified. Wisconsin has a laserlike focus on building up student skills in the first three months, according to viceprovost (教务长)Damon Williams. State and federal governments could sharpen that focus everywhere by broadly publishing minority graduation rates. For y
23、ears private colleges such as Princeton and MIT have had success bringing minorities onto campus in the summer before freshman year to give them some prepara tory courses. The newer trend is to start recruiting poor and non-white students as early as the seventh grade, using innovative tools to iden
24、tify kids with sophisticated verbal skills. Such pro grams can be expensive, of course, but cheap compared with the millions already invested in scholarships and grants for kids who have little chance to graduate without special support. With effort and money, the graduation gap can be closed. Washi
25、ngton and Lee is a small, selective school in Lexington, Va. Its student body is less than 5% black and less than 2% Latino. While the school usually graduated about 90% of its whites, the graduation rate of its blacks and Latinos had dipped to 63% by 2023. We went through a dramatic shift, says Daw
26、n Watkins, the vice president for student affairs. The school aggressively pushed mentoring (辅导) of minorities by other students and partnering with parents at a special pre-enrollment session. The school had its first-ever black homecoming. Last spring the school graduated the same proportion of mi
27、norities as it did whites. If the United States wants to keep up in the global economic race, it will have to pay systematic attention to graduating minorities, not just enrolling them. 留意：此局部试题请在答题卡1上作答。 1. What is the authors main concern about American higher education? A) The small proportion of
28、 minority students. B) The low graduation rates of minority students. C) The growing conflicts among ethnic groups. D) The poor academic performance of students. 2. What was the pride of President Barry Mills of Bowdoin College? A) The prestige of its liberal arts programs. B) Its ranking among univ
29、ersities in Maine. C) The high graduation rates of its students. D) Its increased enrollment of minority students. 3. What is the risk facing America? A) Its schools will be overwhelmed by the growing number of illegal immigrants. B) The rising generation will be less well educated than the previous
30、 one. C) More poor and non-white students will be denied access to college. D) It is going to lose its competitive edge in higher education. 4. How many African-American students earned their degrees in California community colleges according to a recent review? A) Fifty-six percent. C) Fifteen perc
31、ent. B) Thirty-nine percent. D) Sixty-seven percent. 5. Harvard, Yale, and Princeton show almost no gap between black and white graduation rates mainly because . A) their students work harder C) their classes are generally smaller B) they recruit the best students D) they give students more attentio
32、n 6. How does Amy Wilkins of the Education Trust view minority students failure to get a degree? A) Universities are to blame. B) Students dont work hard. C) The government fails to provide the necessary support. D) Affirmative action should be held responsible. 7. Why do some students drop out afte
33、r a year or two according to the author? A) They have lost confidence in themselves. B) They cannot afford the high tuition. C) They cannot adapt to the rigor of the school. D) They fail to develop interest in their studies. 8. To tackle the problem of graduation gap, the University of Wisconsin-Mad
34、ison helps minority students get over the stereotype that _. 9. For years, private colleges such as Princeton and MIT have provided minority students with _ during the summer before freshman year. 10. Washington and Lee University is cited as an example to show that the gap of graduation rates betwe
35、en whites and minorities can _. Part III Listening Comprehension (35 minutes) Section A Directions: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At the end of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the q
36、uestions 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 correspond ing letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. 留意：此局部试题请在答题卡2上作答
37、。 11. A) She will give him the receipt later. B) The man should make his own copies. C) She has not got the mans copies ready. D) The man forgot to make the copies for her. 12. A) She phoned Fred about the book. C) She ran into Fred on her way here. B) She was late for the appointment. D) She often
38、keeps other people waiting. 13. A) Mark is not fit to take charge of the Student Union. B) Mark is the best candidate for the post of chairman. C) It wont be easy for Mark to win the election. D) Females are more competitive than males in elections. 14. A) It failed to arrive at its destination in t
39、ime. B) It got seriously damaged on the way. C) It got lost at the airport in Paris. D) It was left behind in the hotel. 15. A) Just make use of whatever information is available. B) Put more effort into preparing for the presentation. C) Find more relevant information for their work. D) Simply rais
40、e the issue in their presentation. 16. A) The man has decided to choose Language Studies as his major. B) The woman isnt interested in the psychology of language. C) The man is still trying to sign up for the course he is interested in. D) The woman isnt qualified to take the course the man mentione
41、d. 17. A) They are both to blame. B) They are both easy to please. C) They can manage to get along. D) They will make peace in time. 18. A) They are in desperate need of financial assistance. B) They hope to do miracles with limited resources. C) They want to borrow a huge sum from the bank. D) They
42、 plan to buy out their business partners. Questions 19 to 22 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 19. A) We simply cannot help reacting instinctively that way. B) We wish to hide our indifference to their misfortune. C) We derive some humorous satisfaction from their misfortune. D) We
43、think it serves them right for being mean to other people. 20. A) They want to show their genuine sympathy. B) They have had similar personal experiences. C) They dont know how to cope with the situation. D) They dont want to reveal their own frustration. 21. A) They themselves would like to do it b
44、ut dont dare to. B) Its an opportunity for relieving their tension. C) Its a rare chance for them to see the boss lose face. D) They have seen this many times in old films. 22. A) To irritate them. C) To relieve her feelings. B) To teach them a lesson. D) To show her courage. Questions 23 to 25 are
45、based on the conversation you have just heard. 23. A) Smuggling drugs into Hong Kong. C) Stealing a fellow passengers bag. B) Having committed armed robbery. D) Bringing a handgun into Hong Kong. 24. A) He said not a single word during the entire flight. B) He took away Kumars baggage while he was a
46、sleep. C) He was travelling on a scholarship from Delhi University. D) He is suspected of having slipped something in Kumars bag. 25. A) Give him a lift. C) Check the passenger list. B) Find Alfred Foster. D) Search all suspicious cars. Section B Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short pa
47、ssages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. 留意：此局部试题请在答题卡2上作答。 Passage One Questions 26 to 2