2011年6月及12月英语六级真题及答案详解.doc

2011年6月大学英语六级真题 Part?Ⅰ? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? Writing? ?? ?? ?? (30minutes) 1．现在许多人热衷于各类证书考试 2．其目的各不相同 3．在我看来…… The Certificate Craze Part II? ?? ??Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)? ?? ?? ?? ? (15 minutes) Minority Report American universities are accepting more minorities than ever. Graduating them is another matter. Barry Mills, the president of Bowdoin College, was justifiably proud of Bowdoins efforts to recruit minority students. Since 2003 the small, elite liberal arts school in Brunswick, Maine, has boosted the proportion of so-called under-represented minority students in entering freshman classes from 8% to 13%. It is our responsibility to reach out and attract students to come to our kinds of places, he told a?NEWSWEEK?reporter. But Bowdoin has not done quite as well when it comes to actually graduating minorities. While 9 out of 10 white students routinely get their diplomas within six years, only 7 out of 10 black students made it to graduation day in several recent classes. If you look at who enters college, it now looks like America, says Hilary Pennington, director of postsecondary programs for the Bill Melinda Gates Foundation, which has closely studied enrollment patterns in higher education. But if you look at who walks across the stage for a diploma, its still largely the white, upper-income population. The United States once had the highest graduation rate of any nation. Now it stands 10th. For the first time in American history, there is the risk that the rising generation will be less well educated than the previous one. The graduation rate among 25- to 34-year-olds is no better than the rate for the 55- to 64-year-olds who were going to college more than 30 years ago. Studies show that more and more poor and non-white students want to graduate from college – but their graduation rates fall far short of their dreams. The graduation rates for blacks, Latinos, and Native Americans lag far behind the graduation rates fo