2016年12月英语六级考试模拟题及答案解析(6)

　　Part Ⅳ

　　Error Correction (15 minutes)

　　Directions:This part consists of a short passage. In this passage, there are altogether 10 mistakes, one in each numbered line. You may have to change a word, add a word or delete a word. Mark out the mistakes and put the corrections in the blanks provided. If you change a word, cross it out and write the correct word in the corresponding blank. If you add a word, put an insertion mark (∧) in the right place and write the missing word in the blank. If you delete a word, cross it out and put a slash (/) in the blank.

　　Example:

　　Television is rapidly becoming the literatures of our periods.Many of

　　1.time

　　the arguments having used for the study of literature as a school subject

　　2.

　　are valid for ∧ study of television. 3.the

　　Poverty exists because our society is an unequal one, and there are powerful

　　political pressures to keep it that way. Any attempt to redistributing wealth and in 71.____come in the United States will inevitably be opposed by powerful middle and upperclass interests. People can be relatively rich only if you are relatively poor, and as 72.____power is mainly in the hands of the rich, public policies reflect their interests than 73.____those of the poor.

　　As Mr. Herbert Gans has pointed out, poverty is actually functional from the

　　point of view of the non poor. Poverty ensures that dirty work gets doing. If there 74.____were no poor poeple to scrub floors and empty bedpans, there jobs will have to be 75.____

　　rewarded with high incomes before anyone would touch them. Poverty creates jobs for many of the non poor, such as police officers, welfare workers, and government bureaucrats. Poverty makes life easier for the rich by providing them with cookers, 76.____gardeners, and other workers to perform basic chores when their employers enjoy 77.____more pleasurable activities. Poverty provides a market for more inferior goods and 78.____service, such as day old bread, rundown automobiles, or the advice of competent 79.____physicians and lawyers. Poverty also provides a group that can be made to absorb the costs of change. It is just that poverty is an inevitable outcome of the American economic system, in which the poor are politically powerless to influence or change. 80.____

　　Part Ⅴ

　　Writing (30 minutes)

　　Directions:For this part you are allowed thirty minutes to write a composition on the topic: How to Cope with Personal Crisis.

　　You should write at least 150 words and base your composition on the outline given in Chinese below:

　　How to Deal with Personal Crisis

　　1.造成个人危机的起因。

　　2.应对个人危机的方法。

　　答案

　　Part Ⅱ

　　Passage One

　　内容概要:

　　本文讲述了美国"工作场所操作规范"诞生的背景和实施情况。1996年，美国一些地方和部门的低收入工人抗议血汗工厂，随后克林顿政府发起"无血汗"运动，要求零售商和制造商签署《工作场所操作规范》。可是国防部拒绝执行;美国劳工部作为政府部门，却称主要要求制造商们遵守安全和卫生规定。