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1、新东方六级：http:/ 六级qq群：238407043Part I Writing (30 minutes)Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a r?sum?. You should write at least 150 words following the outline given below:假设你是李明一名应届毕业生，在报纸上看到一则招聘广告，你想要到登广告的公司供职，请给该公司写一封求职信，内容应简要介绍自己的情况以及自己的经历等。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 1-4, markY (for YES ) if the statement agrees with the information given in the passage;N (for NO) if the statement contrad
3、icts the information given in the passage;NG (for NOT GIVEN) if the information is not given in the passage. For questions 5-10, complete the sentences with the information given in the passage.Americas Brain Drain CrisisLosing the Global EdgeWilliam Kunz is a self-described computer geek. A more ap
4、t description might be computer genius. When he was just 11, Kunz started writing software programs, and by 14 he had created his own video game. As a high school sophomore in Houston, Texas, he won first prize in a local science fair for a data encryption(编密码)program he wrote. In his senior year, h
5、e took up prize in an international science and engineering fair for designing a program to analyze and sort DNA patterns.Kunz went on to attend Carnegie Mellon, among the nations highest-ranked universities in computer science. After college he landed a job with Oracle in Silicon Valley, writing so
6、ftware used by companies around the world.Kunz looked set to become a star in his field. Then he gave it all up.Today, three years later, Kunz is in his first year at Harvard Business School. He left software engineering partly because his earning potential paled next to friends who were going into
7、law or business. He also worried about job security, especially as more companies move their programming overseas to lower costs. Every time youre asked to train someone in India, you think, Am I training my replacement? Kunz says.Things are turning out very differently for another standout in engin
8、eering, Qing-Shan Jia. A student at Tsinghua University in Beijing, Jia shines even among his gifted cohorts(一群人)at a school sometimes called the MIT of China. He considered applying to Harvard for his PhD, but decided it wasnt worth it.来源：His university is investing heavily in cutting-edge research
9、 facilities, and attracts an impressive roster of international professors. I can get a world-class education here and study with world-class scholars, Jia says.These two snapshots(快照)illustrate part of a deeply disturbing picture. In the disciplines underpinning the high-tech economymath, science a
10、nd engineeringAmerica is steadily losing its global edge. The depth and breadth of the problem is clear:?Several of Americas key agencies for scientific research and development will face a retirement crisis within the next ten years.?Less than 6% of Americas high school seniors plan to pursue engin
11、eering degrees, down 36% from a decade ago.?In 2000, 56% of Chinas undergraduate degrees were in the hard sciences; in the United States, the figure was 17%.?China will likely produce six times the number of engineers next year than America will graduate, according to Mike Gibbons of the American So
12、ciety for Engineering Education. Japan, with half Americas population, has minted(铸造)twice as many in recent years.Most Americans are unaware of how much science does for this country and what we stand to lose if we cant keep up, says Shirley Ann Jackson, president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institut
13、e and chair of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. David Baltimore, president of the California Institute of Technology and a Nobel laureate, puts it bluntly: We cant hope to keep intact our standard of living, our national security, our way of life, if Americans arent competiti
14、ve in science.The Crisis Americans CreatedIn January 2001, the Hart-Rudman Commission, tasked with finding solutions to Americas major national security threats, concluded that the failures of Americas math and science education and Americas system of research Pose a greater threat.than any potentia
15、l conventional war.The roots of this failure lie in primary and secondary education. The nation that produced most of the great technological advances of the last century now scores poorly in international science testing. A 2003 survey of math and science literacy ranked American 15-year-olds again
16、st kids from other industrialized nations. In math, American students came in 24th out of 28 countries; in science, Americans were 24th out of 40 countries, tied with Latvia. This test, in conjunction with others, indicates Americans start out with sufficient smartstheir fourth-graders score wellbut they begin to slide by ei
