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1、大学英语六级考试预测卷五Part Writing (30 minutes)Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled To Curb Spending? You should write at least 150 words following the outline given below:1. 现在许多大学生花钱大手大脚2. 有人认为社会整体生活水平提高了，大学生花钱多一些无可厚非3. 你的看法Part Reading Comprehension(Skimming
2、 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 14, mark Y (for YES)if the statement agrees with the information given in the passage; N (for NO)if the statement contradicts the info
3、rmation given in the passage; NG (for NOT GIVEN)if the information is not given in the passage. For questions 510, complete the sentences with the information given in the passage. Even as the economy improves, a jobless executive may face up to a year or more of unemployment. This is a lot of time,
4、 especially for hard-charging high-performers who are not used to having any free time. While some job seekers spend hundredseven thousandsof hours discovering daytime television, others seem to thrive on activities that boost their professional careers or resolve family issues when they arent worki
5、ng.Having an extended period of free time in the prime of ones life can in fact be a unique opportunity to focus on volunteer service, professional education or personal growth.Community InvolvementFor Lisa Perez, the wakeup call was burned pork chops. An executive who previously hadnt been particul
6、arly interested in home and health, she had become obsessed with homemaking during a stint of unemployment.She realized that cleaning and organizing her home wasnt helping her job search. Nevertheless, “I made lists of 50 things to do every day,” says Ms. Perez, a political and public-relations cons
7、ultant in Scottsdale, Ariz. “My house was spotless, just so Id have something to do.”One day, her boyfriend didnt arrive on time for dinner because he had to work late, and her pork chops were ruined. She threw a fit. “Id never been a person like that,” she says. “So I decided to stop feeling sorry
8、for myself, and go out and do something productive.”Ms. Perez, 35, resolved to become an active volunteer for the duration of her search. She gave her time to a health-care concern, a housing program and a political campaign.The work bolstered her self-confidence. “Volunteering takes the focus off o
9、f you. One thing you have thats still valuable is your time. And, of course, you learn that there are thousands of people with a life thats much worse than yours,” she says.Volunteer assignments are also great ways to meet powerful and well-connected people. Over a six-month period, her volunteering
10、 evolved into working as a paid consultant and then as a full-time employee, a job she still holds today. In all, she was unemployed for eight months. Before her job loss, she thought she didnt have time to volunteer while working. “Now, even though I have a demanding job, I still volunteer, because
11、 of what I got out of it,” says Ms. Perez. Continuing EducationGene Bellavance, a 36-year-old information-technology project manager, took another route during his unemployment. When he was laid off from a steel company near Cleveland, he knew his immediate prospects were bleak. He expected his sear
12、ch to take a year. He faced a decision: take a job that would set back his career or hold out for an offer he really wanted. Mr. Bellavance, single and virtually debt free, shifted his finances into survival mode. He cashed out his pension, sold his house, unloaded things he didnt need at garage sal
13、es, and rented an apartment with a roommate. Then, he says, “I signed up for every benefit I could find.”But he wasnt just waiting out the year. He spent the rest of his search updating his skills, including becoming certified in new database and project-management software. “You have to invest in y
14、ourself,” Mr. Bellavance says. “I estimated what technology was going to be the most beneficial and chose applications that were going to be pervasive, that were right for my market, and that were going to ensure top pay.”In addition to income from the occasional IT-consulting assignment, he relied
15、on a combination of displaced-worker-retraining grants and unemployment benefits. “I went out and found the classes, submitted the paperwork, and dealt with the bureaucracy. You have to stay after them, keeping your benefits moving forward. Its up to you to make it work with your overall transition
16、plan,” he says.His job search was one month shy of the full year hed expected. He looked for work during his training and says he would have finished the certification programs even if hed been hired before completing them.“People should not feel guilty”about accepting government aid, he says. “I saw this in a lot of people. They felt they were some kind of loser for taking benefits. My advice is: Get all yo
