2012年6月大学英语六级(CET-6)真题试卷Part IWriting(30 minutes)注意：此部分试题在答题卡1上。Directions:For this part,you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on the topic TheImpact of the Internet on Interpersonal Communication.You should write at least150 words but no more than 200 words.H SWEETIEHOW WASYOU CAN READALL ABOUT ITON MY BLOG,DADThe Certificate CrazePart IIReading Comprehension(Skimming and Scanning)(15 minutes)Directions:In this part,you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer thequestions on Answer Sheet 1.For questions 1-7,choose the best answer from the fourchoices marked A),B),C)and D).For questions 8-10,complete the seen tenses withthe information given in the passage.The Three-Year SolutionHartwick College,a small liberal-arts school in upstate New York,makes New York,makesthis offer to well prepared students:earn your undergraduate degree in three years instead of four,and save about 543,000-the amount of one year's tuition and fees.A number of innovativecolleges are making the same offer to students anxious about saving time and money.That's both anopportunity and a warning for the best higher-education system in the world.The United States has almost all of the world's best universities.A recent Chinese survey ranks35 American universities among the top 50,eight among the top 10.Our research universities havebeen the key to developing the competitive advantages that help Americans produce 25%of all theworld's wealth.In 2007,623,805 of the world's brightest students were attracted to Americanuniversities.Yet,there are signs of peril()within American higher education.U.S.colleges have tocompete in the marketplace.Students may choose among 6,000 public,private,nonprofit,for profit,or religious institutions of higher learning.In addition,almost all of the 532 billion the federalgovernment provides for university research is awarded competitively.But many colleges and universities are stuck in the past.For instance,the idea of thefall-to-spring"school year"hasn't changed much since before the American Revolution,when wewere a summer stretch no longer makes sense.Former George Washington University presidentStephen Trachtenberg estimates that a typical college uses its facilities for academic purposes a littlemore than half the calendar year."While college facilities sit idle,they continue to generatemaintenance expenses that contribute to the high cost of running a college,"he has written.Within academic departments,.tenure(终身职位)，combined with age-discrimination laws,.makes faculty turnover-critical for a university to remain current in changing times-difficult.Instead of protecting speech and encouraging diversity and innovative thinking,the tenure systemoften stifles()them:younger professors must win the approval of established colleagues fortenure,encouraging like-mindedness and sometimes inhibiting the free flow of ideas.Meanwhile,tuition has soared,leaving graduating students with unprecedented loan debtStrong campus presidents to manage these problems are becoming harder to find,and to keep.Infact,students now stay on campus almost as long as their presidents.The average amount of timestudents now take to complete an undergraduate degree has stretched to six years and seven monthsas students interrupted by work,inconvenienced by unavailable classes,or lured by one morefootball season find it hard to graduate.Congress has tried to help students with college costs through Pell Grants and other forms oftuition support.But some of their fixes have made the problem worse.The stack of congressionalregulations governing federal student grants and loans now stands twice as tall as I do.Filling outthese forms consumes 7%of every tuition dollar.For all of these reasons,some colleges like Hartwick are rethinking the old way of doing thingsand questioning decades-old assumptions about what a college degree means.For instance,whydoes it have to take four years to earn a diploma?This fall,16 first-year students and foursecond-year students at Hartwick enrolled in the school's new three year degree program.According to the college,the plan is designed for high-ability,highly motivated student who wish tosave money or to move along more rapidly toward advanced degrees.By eliminating that extra year,there year degree students save 25%in costs.Instead of taking30 credits a year,these students take 40.During January,Hartwick runs a four week course duringwhich students may earn three to four credits on or off campus,including a number of internationalsites.Summer courses are not required,but a student may enroll in them-and pay extra.Three yearstudents get first crack at course registration.There are no changes in the number of coursesprofessors teach or in their pay.The three-year degree isn't a new idea.Geniuses have always breezed through.Judson College,a 350-student institution in Alabama,has offered students a three-year option for 40 years.Studentsattend"short terms"in May and June to earn the credits required for graduation.Bates College inMaine and Ball State University in Indiana are among other colleges offering three-year options.Changes at the high-school level are also helping to make it easier for many students to earntheir undergraduate degrees in less time.One of five students arrives at college today withAdvanced Placement(AP)credits amounting to a semester or more of college level work.Manyuniversities,including large schools like the University of Texas,make it easy for these AP studentsto graduate faster.For students who don't plan to stop with an undergraduate degree,the three-year plan mayhave an even greater appeal.Dr.John Sergent,head of Vanderbilt University Medical School'sresidency (program,enrolled in Vanderbilt's undergraduate college in 1959.He enteredmedical school after only three years as did four or five of his classmates."My first year of medicalschool counted as my senior year,which meant I had to take three to four labs a week to get all mysciences in.I basically skipped my senior year,"says Sergent.He still had time to be a studentsenator and meet his wife.There are,however,drawbacks to moving through school at such a brisk pace.For one,itdeprives students of the luxury of time to roam (intellectually.Compressing everything into