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大学英语六级模拟试题新题型（18） (1/1)Part Ⅰ Writing
irection: For this part, you are allowed thirty minutes to write a composition on the topic \—A Social Problem\base your composition on the outline (given in Chinese) below:
1．下岗人员(laid-off personnel)面临一个严肃的问题——再就业； 2．下岗人员要改变就业观念，树立坚强信心，重新就业； 3．人们要关心、帮助下岗人员，克服困难，争取胜利。 __________________下一题
(1~10/共10题)Part II Reading Comprehension (Skimming and scanning) (15 minutes)Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passages quickly and answer the questions on Answer Sheet 1.For questions 1-7, choose she 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.
Here They Come
Most of the immigrants came because they were hungry—hungry for more bread and for better bread. America offered that. Europe was old; America was young. European soil had been farmed for many years; American soil was practically untouched. In Europe the land was in the hands of a few people, the upper classes; in America the land was available to all. In Europe it was difficult to get work; in America it was easy to get work. In Europe there were too many laborers looking for the few available jobs, so wages were low; in America there weren′t enough laborers to fill the available jobs, so wages were high.
A bigger and better loaf of bread, then, attracted most of the inpouring hordes of people to America. But many came for other reasons. One was religious persecution. If you were a Catholic in a Protestant country, or a Protestant in another kind of Protestant country, or a Jew in almost any country, you were oftentimes made very uncomfortable, You might have difficulty in getting a job, or you might be laughed at, or have stones thrown at you, or you might even be murdered — just for having the wrong (that is, different) religion. You learned about America where your religion didn′t make so much difference, where you could be what you pleased, where there was room for Catholic, Protestant, Jew. To America, then!
Or perhaps you had the right religion but the wrong politics. Perhaps you thought a few people in your country had too much power, or that there should be no kings, or that the poor people paid too much taxes, or that the masses of people should have more to say about governing the country. Then, oftentimes, your government thought you were too radical and tried to get hold of you to put you into prison, where your ideas might not upset the people. You didn′t want to go to prison, so you had to leave the country to avoid being caught. Where to go under the circumstances? Some place where you could be a free man, where you weren′t clapped into jail for talking. Probably you turned to the place Joseph described in his letter to his brother. \and write what you like, and talk as you have a mind to, and no one arrests you. \ For several hundred years America was advertised just as Lucky Strike cigarettes and Buick ears are advertised today. The wonders of America were told in books, pamphlets, newspapers, pictures, posters—and always this advice was given,\be interested in whether or not Patrick McCarthy or Hans Knobloch moved from his European
home to America? There were two groups interested at different times, but for the same reason — business profits.
In the very beginning, over three hundred years ago, trading companies were organized which got huge tracts of land in America for nothing or almost nothing. That land, however, was valueless until people lived on it, until crops were produced, or animals killed for their furs. Then the trading company would step in, buy things from the settlers and sell things to company would step in, buy things from the settlers and sell things to them — at a profits. The Dutch West India Company, the London Company, and several others were trading companies that gave away land in America with the idea of eventually making money on cargoes from the colonists. They wanted profits — needed immigrants to get them — advertised — and people came.
In later years, from 1870 on, other groups interested in business profits tried to get people to come to America. The Cunard line, the White Star line, the North German Lloyed, and several others earned money only when people used their ships. They therefore sent advertisements to all parts of the world to get people to travel to America — in their ships. They sent not only advertisements, but also agents whose business it was to %up emigrants. \All the other reasons mentioned before were operating, and along came a man who promised to help you, gave you complete directions, aided you in all the little details that were necessary, sometimes even got you a passport, and finally led you to the right ship — To America !
For one reason or another, then, people were attracted to America and came of their own free will. There were others who came not because they wanted to, but because they had to.
In the early days when America was a colony of England, that country saw a chance to get rid of people who seemed to be \on ships and sent to America. Some of the latter were real criminals, but many had been put in prison for small offenses such as poaching, or stealing a loaf of bread, or being in debt. However, they were not \citizens\as far as English was concerned, so what better idea could that country have than to get rid of them? Off to America, whether they liked it or not!
There were two groups of indentured servants. There were those who voluntarily sold themselves for a four-to-seven-year term just to get their passage paid. There was another group, however, \— hustled on board ships, borne across the sea and sold into bondage. The streets of London were full of Kidnappers — \as they were called; no workingman was safe; the very beggars were afraid to speak with anyone who mentioned the terrifying word America. Parents were torn from their homes, husbands from their wives, to disappear forever as if swallowed up in death. Children were bought from worthless fathers, orphans from their guardians, dependent or undesirable relatives from families weary of supporting them. \
Still another group of immigrants were brought against their will. When the early settlers found it practically impossible to make good slaves of the Indians they found here, because the red man was too proud to work under the lash, they turned to Africa, where Negroes could be obtained. For most of the eighteenth century over twenty thousand slaves were transported every year. Negro slave trading became a very profitable business. Many great English fortunes were founded on the slave trade. The Gladstone family fortune is a famous example.
As might be expected, the privations suffered by the whites in the sea crossing were nothing when compared to the misery of the Negroes. Here is a sample account of conditions on the slave ships:
\had been out seventeen days, during which she had thrown overboard 54.The slaves were all enclosed under grated hatchways, between decks. The space was so low that they sat between each other′s legs, and stowed so close together that there was no possibility of their lying down, or at all changing their position, by night or day. Over the hatchway stood a ferocious-looking fellow, with twisted thongs in his hand, who was the slave-driver of the ships, and whenever he heard the slightest noise below, he shook the whips over them.
But the circumstance which struck us most forcibly was, how it was possible for such a number of human beings to exist, packed up and wedged together as tight as they could cram, in low cells, three feet high, the greater part of which, except that immediately under the grated hatchways was shut out from light or air, and this when the thermometer, exposed to the open sky, was standing in the shade, on our deck at 89 degrees.
It was not surprising that they should have endured much sickness and loss of life in their Short passage. They had sailed from the coast of Africa on the 7th of May, and had been out but seventeen days, and they had thrown overboard no less than fifty-five, who had died of dysentery and other complaints, in that space of time, though they had left the coast in good health. Indeed, many of the survivors were seen lying about the decks in the last stage of emaciation, and in a state of filth and misery not to be looked at. \ And so they came, both the willing and the unwilling. 第1题
Why did people willingly or unwillingly come to America? A.Because they wanted to achieve a better life. B.Because of religious persecution. C.Because of political reasons. D.All of the above reasons.
第2题
The trading companies used advertisements and ____ to persuade people in all parts of the world to go to America. A.agents B.passports C.money D.profits
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In later years, other groups tried to get people to come to America for ____. A.nothing B.friendship C.profits D.help 第4题
People who voluntarily worked as servants for several years in exchange for passage to America were called ____. A.negro slaves
B.indentured servants C.negro servants
D.indentured slaves
第5题
The beggars in ____ were afraid to speak with anyone who talked about America. A.London B.England C.America D.Africa 第6题
The Gladstone family made a great fortune by ____. A.shipping negro slaves B.buying negro slaves C.renting negro slaves D.selling negro slaves
第7题
Many criminals in England were sent to ____ because they were not \ A.America B.Africa C.England D.Australia 第8题
____ were made uncomfortable in almost any European country. 第9题
We learn from the passage that conditions for the early whites traveling to America by ships were much better than ____.
第10题
Some ____ who were real criminals were put in prison for small offenses. 上一题 下一题
(11~15/共15题)Part Ⅲ Listening ComprehensionSection ADirections: 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 questions 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 corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. Play00:00… Volume
第11题
A.The woman always talks to other men. B.The woman wouldn′t find the restaurant.
C.The woman started a conversation with a stranger. D.The woman finished talking to the men. 第12题
A.All of them disagreed with him. B.Some of them disagreed with him. C.There was no reaction.