《2009年06月-全国大学英语六级考试真题及答案》.docVIP

2009年6月全国大学英语六级考试真题和答 案 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. You should 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 Name 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. Helicopter Moms vs. Free-Range Kids Would you let your fourth-grader ride public transportation without an adult? Probably not. Still, when Lenore Skenazy, a columnist for the New York Sun, wrote about letting her son take the subway alone to get back to her Manhattan home from a department store on the Upper East Side, she didn抰 expect to get hit with a wave of criticism from readers. 揕ong story short: My son got home, overjoyed with independence,?Skenazy wrote on April 4 in the New York Sun. 揕ong story longer: Half the people I抳e told this episode to now want to turn on in for child abusget e. As if keeping kids under lock and key and cell phone and careful watch is the right way to rear kids. It’s not. It’s debilitating (使虚弱)—for us and for them.” Online message boards were soon full of people both applauding and condemning Skenazy’s decision to let her son go it alone. She wound up defending herself on CNN (accompanied by her son) and on popular blogs like the Buffington Post, where her follow-up piece was ironically headlined 揗ore From America抯 Worst Mom.? The episode has ignited another one of those debates that divides parents into vocal opposing camps. Are Modern parents needlessly overprotective, or is the world a more complicated and dangerous place than it was when previous generations we