大学英语六级(CET6)模拟试卷及答案

　　Model Test Four

　　Part Ⅰ Writing (30 minutes)

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

　　1.大学校园内各种证书的报考十分火热

　　2.大学生考证的利弊

　　3.考证面前，我的选择

　　The Popularity of Getting Certificates on Campus

　　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.

　　Guide Dogs

　　For most dog owners, the expression “work like a dog” doesn’t make much sense. But some dogs happily perform very demanding jobs for much of their life, putting in a full day’s work just like the rest of us. Guide dogs, one of the most familiar sorts of working dog, provide an invaluable service to humans. Every day, they help their masters get from place to place more safely.

　　What Guide Dogs Do

　　Guide dogs help blind or visually impaired people get around in the world. In most countries, they are allowed to anyplace where the public is allowed, so they can help their handlers be in any place they might want to go to. To do this, a guide dog must know how to:

　　Keep on a direct route, ignoring distractions such as smells, other animals and people

　　Maintain a steady pace, to the left and just ahead of the handler

　　Stop at all curbs until told to proceed

　　Turn left and right, move forward and stop on command

　　Recognize and avoid obstacles that the handler won’t be able to fit through (narrow passages and low overheads) Stop at the bottom and top of stairs until told to proceed

　　Bring the handler to elevator buttons

　　Lie quietly when the handler is sitting down

　　Help the handler to board and move around buses, subways and other forms of public Vehicles

　　Obey a number of verbal commands

　　Additionally, a guide dog must know to disobey any command that would put the handler in danger. This ability, called selective disobedience, is perhaps the most amazing thing about guide dogs that they can balance obedience with their own assessment of the situation.

　　This capacity is extremely important at crosswalks, where the handler and dog must work very closely together to navigate the situation safely. Dogs cannot distinguish the color of traffic lights, so the handler must make the decision of when it is safe to proceed across the road. The handler listens to the flow of traffic to figure out when the light has changed and then gives the command “forward”. If there is no danger, the dog proceeds across the road in a straight line. If there are cars approaching, the dog waits until the danger is gone and then follows the forward command.

　　On the Job and After Hours

　　Guide dogs enjoy their work immensely, and they get a lot of satisfaction from a job well done, but there is no