大学英语六级考试全真预测卷（二）

PartⅠ Writing(30 minutes)

Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on thetopic To Curb Spending. You should write at least 150 words according to the outlinegiven below in Chinese.

1. 现在许多大学生普遍花钱大手大脚，消费水平高。

2. 有人认为社会整体生活水平提高了，大学生花钱多一些无可厚非。

3. 你的看法。

To Curb Spending

Part ⅡReading 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.

Freud’s Study on “Human Mind”

Most people often dream at night. When they wake in the morning they say to themselves, “What a strange dream I had! I wonder what made me dream that.”Sometimesdreams are frightening. Sometimes, in dreams, wishes come true. At other times we are troubled by strange dreams in which the world seems to have been turned upside-down and nothing makes sense.

In dreams we do things which we would never do when we re awake. We think and saythings we would never think and say. Why are dreams so strange and unfamiliar? Wheredo dreams come from?

No one has produced a more satisfying answer than a man called Sigmund Freud. Hesaid that dreams come from a part of one s mind which one can neither recognizenor control. He named this the “unconscious mind” .

Sigmund Freud was born about a hundred years ago. He lived most of his life in Vienna,Austria, but ended his days in London, soon after the beginning of the Second WorldWar. The new worlds Freud explored were inside man himself. For the unconscious mindis like a deep well, full of memories and feelings. These memories and feelings havebeen stored there from the moment of our birth. Our conscious mind has forgottenthem. We do not suspect that they are there until some unhappy or unusual experiencecauses us to remember, or to dream dreams. Then suddenly we see the same thing andfeel the same way we felt when we were little children.

This discovery of Freud's is very important if we wish to understand why peopleact as they do. For the unconscious forces inside us are at least as powerful asthe conscious forces we know about. Sometimes we do things without knowing why. Ifwe don t, the reasons may lie deep in our unconscious minds.

When Freud was a child he cared about the sufferings of others, so it isn tsurprising that he became a doctor when he grew up. He learned all about the wain which the human body works. But he became more and more curious about the humanmind. He went to Paris to study with a famous French doctor, Charcot. At that timeit seemed that no one knew very much about the mind. If a person went mad, or “out of his mind”, there was not much that could be done about it. People didn t understand at all what was happening to the madman. Had he been possessed by a devil

or evil spirit? Was God punishing him for wrong doing? Often such people were shutaway from the ordinary people as if they had done some terrible crime.

This is still true today in many places. Doctors prefer to experiment on those partsof a man which they can see and examine. If you cut a man s head open you can seehis brain. But you can t see his thoughts or ideas or dreams.

In Freud’s day few doctors were interested in these subjects. Freud wanted to know how our minds work. He learned a lot from Charcot. He returned to Vienna in 1886and began work as a doctor in nerve diseases. He got married and began to receivemore and more patients at home. Most of the patients who came to see him were women.

They were over excited and anxious, sick in mind rather than in body. Medicinedid not help them. Freud was full of sympathy but he could do little to make thembetter.

Then one day a friend, Dr Josef Breuer, came to see him. He told Freud about a girlhe was looking after. The girl seemed to get better when she was allowed to talk about herself. She told Dr Breuer everything that came into her mind. And each time she talked to him she remembered more about her life as a little child. Freud wasexcited when he heard this. He began to try to cure his patients in the same way.

He asked about the events of their early childhood. He urged them to talk about theirown experiences and relationships. He himself said very little. Often, as he listened,his patients relived moments from their past life. They trembled with anger and fear,hate and love. They acted as though Freud was their father or mother or lover. Thedoctor did not make any attempt to stop them. He quietly accepted whatever they toldhim, the good things and the bad. Also one young woman who came to him couldnt drink anything, although she was very thirsty. Something prevented her from

drinking. Freud discovered the reason for this. One day, as they were talking, thegirl remembered having seen a dog drink from her nurse s glass. She hadn t toldthe nurse, whom she disliked. She had forgotten the whole experience. But suddenlythis childhood memory returned to mind. When she had told it all to Dr Freud — thenurse, the dog, the glass of water — the girl was able to drink again.

Freud called this treatment the “talking cure”. Later it was called psychoanalysisWhen patients talked freely about the things that were troubling them they often felt better.

The things that patients told him sometimes gave Freud a shock. He discovered thatthe feelings of very young children are not so different from those of their parents.

A small boy may love his mother so much that he wants to kill his father. At thesame time he loves his father and is deeply ashamed of this wish. It is difficultto live with such mixed feelings, so they fade away into the unconscious mind andonly return in troubled dreams. It was hard to believe that people could become blind,or lose the power of speech, because of what had happened to them when they were

children.

Freud was attacked from all sides for what he discovered. But he also found firmfriends. Many people believed that he had at last found a way to unlock the secretsof the human mind, and to help people who were very miserable. He had found the answerto many of life s great questions. He became famous all over the world and taughtothers to use the talking cure. His influence on modern art, literature and sciencecannot be measured. People who wrote books and plays, people who painted picturesand people who worked in schools, hospitals and prisons all learned something from

the great man who discovered a way into the unconscious mind. Not all of Freuds ideas are accepted today. But others have followed where he led and have helped us to understand ourselves better. Because of him, and them, there is more hope today than there has ever been before for people who were once just called “crazy”.

1. So far, Freud is the only one who can .

A) study human s thoughts, ideas and dreams

B) provide us the most satisfying reply to where dreams come from

C) tell us the reason why we will dream at night

D) offer us some help in mental problems

2. Freud .

A) spent most of his life in Vienna as well as London

B) ended his life after World War II

C) spend most of his life in Vienna, Austria

D) passed away in Austria before the World War Ⅱ

3. When Freud was a grown up, .

A) he was more interested in human mind than the way the human body works

B) he focused his study on the human mind instead of human body

C) he shifted his attention to the study of psychology

D) he was most interested in the study of how human body works

4. In Freud s day, .

A) a number of doctors concentrated on the human s dreams

B) a lot of students admired Freud s study very much

C) no doctor would like to work with Freud together

D) no doctors were interested in human s ideas, thoughts or dreams

5. According to the passage, Dr Josef Breuer .

A) gave Freud some help in Freud s study

B) was one of the workmates of Freud

C) was a doctor who specialized in the study of human body

D) offered some advice in Freud s study

6. According to the passage, psychoanalysis was a process .

A) in which patients would not participate

B) in which patients must say something great they encountered before

C) in which patients could do what they like to do

D) in which patients could speak out his bad fortune freely in order to make

themselves reassured

7. Freud found with a shock that .

A) young children and their parents couldn t stay together for a long time

B) yong children were always obedient to their parents

C) young children were not so different from their parents in feelings

D) young children and his parents differed largely in feelings

8. Although much attack pointed to Freud, it was also thought by many people that

Freud had a way to uncover the secrets of and to help miserable people.

9. According to the passage, it is hardly to measure Freud s influence on modern

art, .

10. According to the passage, at present Freud s study brings a lot of hope to

people once called “”.