2007年12月大学英语六级考试真题
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Passage One
Questions 52 to 56 are bad on the following passage.
Like most people, I’ve long understood that I will be judged by my occupation, that my profession is a gauge people u to e how smart or talented I am. Recently, however, I was disappointed to e that it also decides how I’m treated as a person.
Last year I left a professional position as a small-town reporter and took a job waiting tables. As someone paid to rve food to people. I had customers say and do things to me I suspect they’d never say or do to their most casual acquaintances. One night a man talking on his cell phone waved me away, then beckoned财务岗位有哪些 (示意) me back with his finger minute later, complaining he was ready to order and asking where I’d been.
I had waited tables during summers in college and was treated like a 杨石头微博peon (勤杂工) plenty of people. But at 19 years old, I believed I derved inferior treatment from professional adu
lts. Besides, people responded to me differently after I told them I was in college. Customers would joke that one day I’d be sitting at their table, waiting to be rved.
Once I graduated I took a job at a community newspaper. From my first day, I heard a respectful tone from everyone who called me. I assumed this was the way the professional world worked — cordially.
I soon found out differently. I sat veral feet away from an advertising sales reprentative with a similar name. Our calls would often get mixed up and someone asking for Kristen would be transferred to Christie. The mistake was immediately evident. Perhaps it was becau money was involved, but people ud a tone with Kristen that they never ud with me.如何提高口语
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My job title made people treat me with courtesy. So it was a shock to return to the restaurant industry.
It’s no cret that there’s a lot to put up with when waiting tables, and fortunately, much of
it can be easily forgotten when you pocket the tips. The rvice industry, by definition, exists to cater to others’ needs. Still, it emed that many of my customers didn’t get the difference between rver and rvant.
I’m now applying to graduated school, which means someday I’ll return to a profession where people need to be nice to me in order to get what they want, I think I’ll take them to dinner first, and e how they treat someone who only job is to rve them.
古典音乐会52. The author was disappointed to find that _______.
[A] one’s position is ud as a gauge to measure one’s intelligence
[B] talented people like her should fail to get a respectable job
[C] one’s occupation affects the way one is treated as a person
[D] professionals tend to look down upon manual workers
53. What does the author intend to say by the example in the cond paragraph?
[A] Some customers simply show no respect to tho who rve them.
[B] People absorbed in a phone conversation tend to be abnt-minded.
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[C] Waitress are often treated by customers as casual acquaintances.
[D] Some customers like to make loud complaints for no reason at all.
电生磁原理54. How did the author feel when waiting tables at the age of 19?
[A] She felt it unfair to be treated as a mere rvant by professional.
[B] She felt badly hurt when her customers regarded her as a peon.
[C] She was embarrasd each time her customers joked with her.
[D] She found it natural for professionals to treat her as inferior.
55. What does the author imply by saying “…many of my customers didn’t get the difference between rver and rvant”(Lines 3-4, Para.7)?
[A] Tho who cater to others’ needs are destined to be looked down upon.
[B] Tho working in the rvice industry shouldn’t be treated as rvants.
[C] Tho rving others have to put up with rough treatment to earn a living.
[D] The majority of customers tend to look on a rvant as rver nowadays.
56. The author says she’ll one day take her clients to dinner in order to ________.
[A] e what kind of person they are
[B] experience the feeling of being rved
[C] show her generosity towards people inferior to her
[D] arou their sympathy for people living a humble life
Passage Two
Questions 57 to 61 are bad on the following passage.
What’s hot for 2007 among the very rich? A $7.3million diamond ring. A trip to Tanzania to hunt wild animals. Oh, and income inequality.
Sure, some leftish billionaires like George Soros have been railing against income inequality for years. But increasingly, centrist and right-wing billionaires are staring to worry about income inequality and the fate of the middle class.
In December, Mortimer Zuckerman wrote a column in U.S. News & World Report, which he owns. “our nation’s core bargain with the middle class is disintegrating,” lamented (哀叹) the 117th-richest man in America. “Most of our economic gains have gone to people at the very top of the income ladder. Average income for a houhold of people of working age, by contrast, has fallen five years in a raw.” He noted that “Tens of millions of Americans live in fear that a major health problem can reduce them to bankruptcy.”
