恩波：2008年12月英语六级预测试卷及解析(一)

　　Third, don’t stop yet. You’ve selected a career and trained yourself. Learn on reading now to help you succeed on the job. A variety of magazines and books will provide guidance and help.

　　But that’s not all. The day of only one lifetime career may be almost over. All too often, change throws hundreds out of work. Change hits the aircraft industry, for example. Result? Hundreds of well-qualified engineers suddenly out on the street.

　　If you manage things well, keeping a close eye on changing conditions. You can avoid the pain of waking up to find yourself out of a job. Through reading develop some new skills and interests. Then if conditions change, you can slip with comparative ease from one field into another, hardly breaking stride.

　　Most of the things taught in school—typing, shorthand, key punching, language, farming, business management—are readily available in interesting self-help articles and books. Let them smooth your path in any new direction you decide to take.

　　Your Experience Extender

　　What’s the best teacher? Experience, of course! It’s priceless. It comes from what you yourself have seen, heard, tasted, smelled, and felt — what you yourself have lived through.

　　Take a closer look. Look at our limitations. No wonder experience is so precious. We can’t begin to get enough of it. We can’t even experience again what we just lived through. We’re not born with instant replay. We can’t actually relive any moment. And, obviously, we’re limited to one lifetime.

　　Space and time! How they limit us. Who has a time machine to carry him back into history? No one. It’s the same with space. We can’t literally be in two places at the same time. Right now you can’t be sitting where you are and at the same time be strolling down the famed Champs Elysees in Paris.

　　Here’s where reading fits. It can bring us almost unlimited additional experience. To be sure, it’s secondhand experience. But it’s often so vivid that it seems firsthand, just as if we’re living through it ourselves, being moved to tears, laughter, or suspense. That rich range of experience provides the ideal supplement to our own limited experience. In this way, reading becomes one of our most profound mind-shaping activities.

　　Furthermore, all this experience is available when we want it. Books never impose on us. When we want them, we reach out and pull them off the shelf or table. At our convenience we invite them to share their unbelievable wealth with us.

　　Carlyle sums this all up nicely,“All that mankind has done, thought, gained, or been; it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.” Help yourself! Make reading your experience-extender for the rest of your life.

　　1. According to the passage, reading is the lasting pleasure.

　　2. Reading provides all the people in the world with a source of deepest and fullest enjoyment.

　　3. Reading is a fountain of youth in that one can always learn something new from books and never cease to be young in spirit.

　　4. The passage explains how books help fulfill your long-cherished dreams.

　　5. To find your own identity simply means .

　　6. To make an intelligent decision on what to do, you should have an adequate knowledge of your own .

　　7. According to the author, reading is even after you have selected a career and trained yourself.

　　8. You should develop some new skills and interests with the help of books in order to prepare for .

　　9. Though our experience is limited by , reading can bring us unlimited additional secondhand experience.

　　10. Carlyle calls on people to make reading their for the rest of their life.

　　Part ⅢListening Comprehension(35 minutes)

　　Section A

　　Directions: In this section,you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations.At the end of each conversation,one or more questions will be asked about what was said.Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once.After each question there will be a pause. During the pause,you must read the four choices marked A),B),C)and D),and decide which is the best answer.Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.

　　11. A) He feels very excited. B) He feels very happy.

　　C) He feels very angry. D) He feels very sorry.

　　12. A) Reading newspaper. B) Watching television.

　　C) Discussing a sports program. D) Listening to the music.

　　13. A) At a railway station. B) At an airport.

　　C) On an airplane. D) At a bus stop.