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1、6级模拟卷六级考前模考试卷（一）Part I Writing (30 minutes)Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay on the topic of Chinese Parenting VS Western Parenting. You should write at least 150 words according to the outline given below.1. 在教育孩子方面，有人认为中式教育（从严）更好2. 有人则认为西式教育（从宽）更好3. 我认为Ch

2、inese Parenting VS Western Parenting_Part II Reading 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

3、A), B), C) and D). For questions 8-10, complete the sentences with the information given in the passage.Food Inflation Kept Hidden in Tinier BagsChips are disappearing from bags, candy from boxes and vegetables from cans.As an expected increase in the cost of raw materials looms for late summer, con

4、sumers are beginning to encounter shrinking food packages.With unemployment still high, companies in recent months have tried to hide price increases by selling their products in tiny and tinier packages. So far, the changes are most visible at the grocery store, where shoppers are paying the same a

5、mount, but getting less.For Lisa Stauber, stretching her budget to feed her nine children in Houston often requires careful monitoring at the store. Recently, when she cooked her usual three boxes of pasta for a big family dinner, she was surprised by a smaller yield, and she began to suspect someth

6、ing was up.“Whole wheat pasta had gone from 16 ounces to 13.25 ounces,” she said. “I bought three boxes and it wasnt enough that was a little embarrassing. I bought the same amount I always buy, I just didnt realize it, because who reads the sizes all the time?” Ms. Stauber, 33, said she began inspe

7、cting her other purchases, aisle by aisle. Many canned vegetables dropped to 13 or 14 ounces from 16; boxes of baby wipes went to 72 from 80; and sugar was stacked in 4-pound, not 5-pound, bags, she said.Five or so years ago, Ms. Stauber bought 16-ounce cans of corn. Then they were 15.5 ounces, then

8、 14.5 ounces, and the size is still dropping. “The first time Ive ever seen an 11-ounce can of corn at the store was about three weeks ago, and I was just floored,” she said. “Its sneaky, because they figure people wont know.”In every economic downturn in the last few decades, companies have reduced

9、 the size of some products, disguising price increases and avoiding comparisons on same-size packages, before and after an increase. Each time, the marketing campaigns are coy; this time, the smaller versions are “greener” (packages good for the environment) or more “portable” (little carry bags for

10、 the takeout lifestyle) or “healthier” (fewer calories).Where companies cannot change sizes as in clothing or appliances they have warned that prices will be going up, as the costs of cotton, energy, grain and other raw materials are rising. “Consumers are generally more sensitive to changes in pric

11、es than to changes in quantity,” John T. Gourville, a marketing professor at Harvard Business School, said. “And companies try to do it in such a way that you dont notice, maybe keeping the height and width the same, but changing the depth so the silhouette (轮廓) of the package on the shelf looks the

12、 same. Or sometimes they add more air to the chips bag or a scoop in the bottom of the peanut butter jar so it looks the same size.”Thomas J. Alexander, a finance professor at Northwood University, said that businesses had little choice these days when faced with increases in the costs of their raw

13、goods. “Companies only have pricing power when wages are also increasing, and were not seeing that right now because of the high unemployment,” he said. Most companies reduce products quietly, hoping consumers are not reading labels too closely. But the downsizing keeps occurring. A can of Chicken o

14、f the Sea albacore tuna is now packed at 5 ounces, instead of the 6-ounce version still on some shelves, and in some cases, the 5-ounce can costs more than the larger one. Bags of Doritos, Tostitos and Fritos now hold 20 percent fewer chips than in 2009, though a spokesman said those extra chips wer

15、e just a “limited time” offer. Trying to keep customers from feeling cheated, some companies are introducing new containers that, they say, have terrific advantages and just happen to contain less product. Kraft is introducing “Fresh Stacks” packages for its Nabisco Premium saltines and Honey Maid g

16、raham crackers. Each has about 15 percent fewer crackers than the standard boxes, but the price has not changed. Kraft says that because the Fresh Stacks include more sleeves of crackers, they are more portable and “the packaging format offers the benefit of added freshness,” said Basil T. Maglaris,

17、 a Kraft spokesman, in an e-mail. And Procter & Gamble is expanding its “Future Friendly” products, which it promotes as using at least 15 percent less energy, water or packaging than the standard ones. “They are more environmentally friendly, thats true but theyre also smaller,” said Paula Rosenblu

18、m, managing partner for retail systems research at F, an online specialist network. “They announce it as great new packaging, and in fact what it is is smaller packaging, smaller amounts of the product,” she said.Or marketers design a new shape and size altogether, complicating any effort to compari

19、son shop. The unwrapped Reeses Minis, which were introduced in February, are smaller than the foil-wrapped Miniatures. They are also more expensive $0.57 an ounce at FreshDirect, versus $0.37 an ounce for the individually wrapped. At H. J. Heinz, prices on ketchup, condiments, sauces and Ore-Ida pro

20、ducts have already gone up, and the company is selling smaller-than-usual versions of condiments, like 5-ounce bottles of items like Heinz 57 Sauce sold at places like Dollar General. “I have never regretted raising prices in the face of significant cost pressures, since we can always course-correct

21、 if the outcome is not as we expected,” Heinzs chairman and chief executive, William R. Johnson, said last month. While companies have long adjusted package sizes to appeal to changing tastes, from supersizes to 100-calorie packs, the recession drove a lot of corporations to think small. The standar

22、d size for Edys ice cream went from 2 liters to 1.5 in 2008. And Tropicana shifted to a 59-ounce carton rather than a 64-ounce one last year, after the cost of oranges rose. With prices for energy and for raw materials like corn, cotton and sugar creeping up and expected to surge later this year, co

23、mpanies are barely bothering to cover up the shrinking packs. “Typically, the product manufacturers are doing this slightly ahead of the perceived inflationary issues,” Ms. Rosenblum said. “Lately, it hasnt been subtle I mean, theyve been shrinking by noticeable amounts.”That can work to a companys

24、benefit. In the culture of thinness, smaller may be a selling point. It lets retailers honestly claim, for example, that a snack package contains fewer calories without having to change the ingredients a smidge. “For indulgences like ice cream, chocolate and potato chips, consumers may say I dont mi

25、nd getting a little bit less because I shouldnt be consuming so much anyway, ” said Professor Gourville. “Thats a harder argument to make with something like diapers or orange juice.” But even while companies blame the recession for smaller packages, they rarely increase sizes in good times, he said

26、.He traced the shrinking package trends to the late 1980s, when companies like Chock full oNuts downsized the one-pound tin of ground coffee to 13 ounces. That shocked consumers, for whom a pound of coffee had been as standard a purchase unit as a dozen eggs or a six-pack of beer, he said.Once the e

27、conomy rebounds, he said, a new “jumbo” size product typically emerges, at an even higher cost per ounce. Then the gradual shrinking process of all package sizes begins anew, he said. “Its a continuous cycle, where at some point the smallest package offered becomes so small that perhaps theyre phase

28、d out and replaced by the medium-size package, which has been shrunk down,” he said.1. According to the author, why are the food companies beginning to change packages?A) They would like to help people save more in shopping.B) They think the prices for raw good are likely to go up very soon.C) They want to increase the visibility of their products.D) They expect that the cost of raw materials will plunge t