2006年12月24日大学英语六级(CET-6)真题试卷(A卷)

Part I Writing (30 minutes)

Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled The Importance of Reading Classics. You should write at least 150 words following the outline given below.

1. 阅读经典书籍对人的成长至关重要

2. 现在愿意阅读经典的人却越来越少，原因是…...

3. 我们大学生应该怎么做

范文1

The Importance of Reading Classics

As many people say, reading classics plays a significant role to one‘s growing. Because all of the classics are the positive results of wisdom.

We can learn much knowledge and become more intelligent by reading them. Especially, when we are during our growing time, it helps us to read more famous books.

However, now people who enjoy reading those classical books are getting less and less. There are a lot of reasons for this phenomenon. To begin with, there are many other leisure activities in the modern society, young men go to do these things instead of reading. What‘s more, many people prefer some other books to classics because they think classics are useless.

I think, we university men should take some effective actions to prevent the situation. We should read classics as many as possible in our spare time, and we shouldn‘t just scan those words and phrases over our minds but to use our head to think more about those.

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The Importance of Reading Classics

As we all know, books, especially the classical, present the precious accumulation of wisdom and knowledge beyond the limitation of time or space, from which we can enjoy numerous anecdotes, get to know exotic culture and tradition, experience the legendary and miraculous life of our idols and make ourselves better men day by day.

Nevertheless, people, especially the young, seem to have stored those classical books merely on the shelf for an unbelievably long time, which can be attributed to various factors. On the one hand, modern people have to cope with the quick pace and unavoidable stress of their work or life; therefore, they can hardly devote time to reading books. On the other hand, people tend to be more material-oriented involving their social status, amount of wealth or prospects of getting promotion, which eclipse the important benefits from reading classical books.

To me, it is essential for most undergraduates to read certain classical books, especially ones filled with life-long motivation and sagacious thoughts, which may not guarantee them short-term returns but will bring them far-reaching reward.

2006年12月23日大学英语六级(CET-6)真题试卷(B卷)

Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled The Celebration of Western Festivals. You should write at least 150 words following outline given below.

1. 现在国内有不少人喜欢过西方的某些节日

2. 产生这种现象的原因

3. 这种现象可能带来的影响

The Celebration of Western Festivals

Nowadays, an increasing number of Chinese people are fond of celebrating some Western festivals. For example, they send chocolate and flowers to their beloved at Christmas. In addition, they cheat others as some westerners do on April Fool’s Day. There are many different factors deciding this phenomenon.

Among all these factors, language learning plays a critical role. More and younger age groups are exposed to western culture and festivals through learning English. Moreover, some western festivals provide relaxing and comfortable atmosphere, which attracts a large number of Chinese people. Besides, many businessmen view foreign festivals as golden opportunities to make money, so they may desperately try to boost the atmosphere of foreign festivals.

In my opinion, Chinese people celebrating western festivals has both advantages and disadvantages. For one thing, by celebrating western festivals, people have more opportunities to show their affection to others and to meet together. For another, our own home-grown festivals’ crucial roles may be weakened to some extent. Therefore, we must keep a balance between the western festivals and our traditional festivals.