英语六级历年真题及答案

2009年6月大学英语六级考试真题及答案详解Part I Writing(30 minutes)Directions:For this part,you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled On the Importance of a Name.youshould write at least 150 words following the outline given below.1.有人说名字或名称很重要2.也有人觉得名字或名称无关紧要3.我认为On the Importance of a NamePart II Reading Comprehension(S kimming and S canning)(15 minutes)Directions:In this part,you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions on AnswerS heet 1.For questions 1-7,choose the best answer from the four choices marked A.,B.,C.and D.For questions8-10,complete the sentences with the information given in the passage.Helicopter Moms vs.Free-Range KidsWould you let your fourth-grader ride public transportation without anadult?Probably not.S till,when Lenore S kenazy,a columnist for the New York S un,wrote about letting her son takethe subway alone to get back to Long story short:my son got home from a department store on the Upper East S ide,she didnt expect to get hit with a wave of criticism from readers.“Long story short:My son got home,oveijoyed with independence,S kenazy wrote on April 4 in the New YorkS un.Long story longer:Half the people Ive told this episode to now want to turn on in for child abuse.As if keepingkids under lock and key and cell phone and careful watch is the right way to rear kids.If s not.Its debilitating(使虚弱)for us and for them.Online message boards were soon full of people both applauding and condemning S kenazys decision to let herson go it alone.S he wound up defending herself on CNN(accompanied by her son)and on popular blogs like thebuffing ton post,where her follow-up piece was ironically headlined“More From Americas WorstThe episode has ignited another one of those debates that divides parents into vocal opposing camps.Are Modernparents needlessly overprotective,or is the world a more complicated and dangerous place than it was when previousgenerations were allowed to wander about unsupervised?From the shes an irresponsible mother camp came:S hame on you for being so careless about his safety,9,inComments on the buffing ton post.And there was this from a mother of four:4How would you have felt if he didntcome home?But S kenazy got a lot of support,too,with women and men writing in with stories about how they wereallowed to take trips all by them selves at seven or eight.S he also got heaps of praise for bucking the“helicopterparent“trend:Good for this one commenter wrote on the buffing ton post.t4This is a much-needed realitycheck.Last week,encouraged by all the attention,S kenazy started her own blog-Free Range,kids-promoting theidea that modern children need some of the same independence that her generation had.In the good old daysnine-year-old baby boomers rode their bikes to school,walked to the store,took busesand even subwaysall bythemselves.Her blog,she says,is dedicated to sensible parenting.At Free Range Kids,we believe in safe kids.Webelieve in car seats and safety belts.We do NOT believe that every time school-age children go outside,they need asecurity guard.”S o why are some parents so nervous about letting their children out of their sight?Are cities and towns less safeand kids more vulnerable to crimes like child kidnap and sexual abuse than they were in previous generations?Not exactly.New York City,for instance,is safer than its ever been;ifs ranked 36th in crime among allAmerican cities.Nationwide,stringer kidnaps are extremely rare;theres a one-in-a-million chance a child will betaken by a stranger,according to the Justice Department.And 90 percent of sexual abuse cases are committed bysomeone the child knows.Mortality rates from all causes,including disease and accidents,for American children arelower now than they were 25 years ago.According to Child Trends,a nonprofit research group,between 1980 and2003 death rates dropped by 44 percent for children aged 5 to 14 and 32 percent for teens aged 15 to 19.Then Iheres the whole question of whether modern parents are more watchful and nervous about safety thanprevious generations.Yes,some are.Part of the problem is that with wall to wall Internet and cable news,everymissing child case gets so much airtime that its not surprising even normal parental anxiety can be amplified.Andmany middle-class parents have gotten used to managing their childrens time and shuttling them to various enrichingactivities,so the idea of letting them out on their own can seem like a risk.Back in 1972,when many of todaysparents were kids,87 percent of children who lived within a mile of school walked or biked every day.But today,theCenters for Disease Control report that only 13 percent of children bike,walk or otherwise t themselves to school.The extra supervision is both a city and a suburb phenomenon.Parents are worried about crime,and they areworried about kids getting caught in traffic in a city thats not used to pedestrians.On the other hand,there are stillplenty of kids whose parents give them a lot of in