[外语类试卷]大学英语六级模拟试卷620及答案与解析.doc

1、大学英语六级模拟试卷 620及答案与解析 一、 Part I Writing (30 minutes) 1 Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition based on the following table. You should write at least 150 words following the outline given below: 1. 解释表格各数据： 2分析报名人 数变化的原因； 3对这一现象做出评论 二、 Part II Reading Comprehensi

2、on (Skimming and Scanning) (15 minutes) Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions attached to the passage. For questions 1-4, mark： Y (for YES) if the statement agrees with the information given in the passage; N (for NO) if the statem

3、ent contradicts the information given in the passage; NG (for NOT GIVEN) if the information is not given in the passage. 2 Ad Slogans How many times have you been in your car with your radio on, gotten out, and hours later, had some tingle(广告诗 ) playing in your head? This, my friends, is good advert

4、ising. That jingle was so catchy that hours after you had been exposed to it, it still lingered. The same can be said of ad slogans. Every day, we are surrounded by car ads, credit card ads, travel ads, food ads, clothing ads.the list goes on. The Basics The purpose of the strapline or slogan in an

5、advertisement is to leave the key brand message in the mind of the target (thats you). It is the sign-off that accompanies the logo. Its goal is to stick: “If you get nothing else from this ad, get this.!“ A few well-known examples of these slogans include: - American Express: “Dont leave home witho

6、ut it“ - Apple: “Think different“ - AT that they are intensely important in (36)_ communication is a fact. During the first two months of a babys life, the (37)_ that produces a smile is a pair of eyes. Significantly, a real human face with eyes covered will not (38)_ a smile, nor will the sight of

7、only one eye when the face is presented in (39)_. This attraction to eyes as opposed to the nose or mouth continues as the baby (40)_. In one study, when American four-year-olds were asked to draw people, 75 percent of them drew babies with mouths, but 99 percent of them drew people with eyes. In Ja

8、pan, however, where babies are carried on their mothers back, infants do not acquire as much (41)_ to eyes as they do in other cultures. The role of eye contact in a conversational exchange between two Americans is well (42)_ speakers make contact with the eyes of their listener for about one second

9、, then (43)_ away as they talk; (44)_. Listeners, meanwhile, keep their eyes on the face of the speaker, allowing themselves to glance away only briefly. (45)_, if they are not looking, the speaker assumes that they are disinterested and either will pause until eye contact is resumed or will termina

10、te the conversation. (46)_, there may be a sort of traffic jam of words caused by interruption, false starts, and unpredictable pauses. Section A Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word

11、 bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item with a single line through the center. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once. 47 Chi

12、ldren model themselves largely on their parents. They do so mainly through identification. Children【 C1】 _ with a parent when they believe they have the qualities and feeling that are【 C2】 _ of that parent. The things parents do and say - and the way they do and say them- therefore strongly influenc

13、e a childs【 C3】_ . A parents actions also affect the self-image that a child forms through identification. Children who see【 C4】 _ positive qualities in their parents will likely learn to see themselves in a positive way. Children who observe chiefly【 C5】 _ qualities in their parents will have diffi

14、culty seeing positive qualities in themselves. Children may【 C6】 _ their self-image, however, as they become increasingly influenced by peers. Isolated events, even dramatic ones, do not【 C7】 _ have a permanent effect on a childs behavior. Children【 C8】 _ such events according to their【 C9】_ attitud

15、es and previous training. Children who know they are loved can, for example, accept the divorce of their parents or a parents early death But if children feel unloved, they may interpret such events as a【 C10】 _ of rejection or punishment. In the same way, not all children are influenced by toys and

16、 games, reading matter, and television programs. As in the case of a dramatic change in the family relations, the effect of an activity or experience depends on how the child interprets it. A) react I) necessarily B) negative J) established C) complex K) identify D) interpret L) behavior E) sign M)

17、especially F) modify N) mainly G) characteristic O) informed H) sigh 48 【 C1】 49 【 C2】 50 【 C3】 51 【 C4】 52 【 C5】 53 【 C6】 54 【 C7】 55 【 C8】 56 【 C9】 57 【 C10】 Section B Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of

18、 them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice. 57 All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking, observed Nietzsche, though Ive always been a bit suspicious of the eagerness with which writers and artists celebrate the inspirational power of taking a

19、stroll. Yet it seems to work. “methinks(我想 ) the moment my legs begin to move, my thoughts begin to flow,“ was how Henry Thoreau described an experience many of us have had, be it tackling challenging work or worrying over problems. If we still dont know why walking inspires clarity and creativity,

20、its because there are too many possible explanations, not too few. An evolutionary psychologist might say were designed to thrive outside, not at a desk; a scholar of the psychological phenomenon of “priming“ might point to studies suggesting that high ceilings-and also, perhaps, the sky prompt unre

21、strained thinking. A study in the European Journal of Developmental Psychology offers more straightforward reasoning. In it, both children and adults performed a memory exercise better when walking than sitting. The researchers speculate that the physiological inspiration of walking simply makes for

22、 better brain functioning, while the normally harmful effects of multitasking are eliminated when the tasks are sufficiently different, drawing on separate “wells“ of attention, rather than fighting over one. Maybe. Going solely on anecdotal(趣闻轶事 ) experience, though, I suspect the greatest mental b

23、enefits of walking are explained not by what it is, but by what it isnt. When you go outside, you cease what youre doing, and stopping trying to achieve something is often key to achieving it. Stepping away from work combats the paralysing effects of perfectionism, because when a task is suspended,

24、the risk of failure is suspended, too; youre thus freer to dream up insights. And in some hard-to-specify way, even the distractions of walking traffic noise, people seem to help. The writer Ron Rosenbaum takes this to extremes, not just walking while thinking, but watching TV while writing. “Im sli

25、ghtly ashamed to admit it, since it sounds like such an exceedingly bad violation of the writers solitude,“ he once said. “But I have a theory of competing concentration. if you have something that you have to focus against it forces you to concentrate. “ Naturally, the self-improvement industry has

26、 ideas to optimize (充分利用 ) your inspirational walking the notebook will capture your breakthroughs. Im more sceptical of the merits of a desk for home treadmills. But all you really need do is go for a walk. “I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown,“ the naturalist

27、John Muir wrote, “for going out, I found, was really going in.“ Deep. Though apparently he never had to worry about deadlines. 58 As for Nietzsches opinion of thought and walk, the author holds that _. （ A） it will arouse a bit suspicion （ B） it is reasonable to accept it （ C） it derives from Henry

28、Thoreaus idea （ D） it only works for challenging work 59 There are many possible ways to explain why walking inspires clarity and creativity EXCEPT that _. （ A） it is believed that were designed to thrive outside （ B） high ceilings and the sky prompt unrestrained thinking （ C） walking simply makes f

29、or better brain functioning （ D） it will make people fight over one “wells“ of attention 60 What does the author mean by saying “. stopping trying to achieve something is often key to achieving it“? （ A） People could avoid failure by escaping from the reality. （ B） It is much wiser for people to jus

30、t wait for the chances. （ C） Retreating to have insight will contribute to achievement. （ D） Freedom is a fundamental basis to realize ones dream. 61 Why does Ron Rosenbaum watch TV while writing? （ A） He wants to challenge things in an extreme way. （ B） He wants to make violation of writers solitud

31、e. （ C） He wants to test his theory of “competing concentration“. （ D） He wants to be forced by something to concentrate. 62 What might be the authors attitude toward inspirational walking? （ A） Supportive. （ B） Skeptical. （ C） Satirical. （ D） Negative. 63 It is clear that human history will end; th

32、e only mystery is when. It is also clear that if the timing is left to nature (or, if you prefer, to God) and humans hang on until the bloody end, the races final exit will be ignoble(不光彩的 ). If future generations escape the saurian(蜥蜴类 ) agony of extinction by a wandering chunk of rock or ice, the

33、suns unavoidable growth to gianthood will still burn their last successors to ashes: only cinders and gases and dust will remain. Far future generations might prolong the process by posting colonies beyond the earths orbit, but these would be sad outposts at the end of the solar systems long day, cl

34、utching memories of a lost planet and of billions of sacrificed souls. The difficultiesfantastic difficulties of interstellar(星际的 ) travel might be overcome, but the mightiest of starships could do no more than defer the end of the world. An ignoble existence hopping from planet to planet clinging t

35、o each clod until it, in its turn, was vaporized or frozen might still be bearable were it not for the knowledge of its final uselessness. In the end, there is only death by gravity or entropy, the fiery quantum(量子 ) pit or the heatless grey soup. The great violinist Jascha Heifetz was great not lea

36、st because he quit the concert stage at his peak, before the show became stale or the audience drifted away. To exit gracefully is sublime(美妙的 ), as Heifetz understood. And only one species is capable of choosing a similarly graceful exit; all others march on like robots. To call time on the human r

37、ace by choice, not necessity, would be the final victory of the human spirit over animal nature, an absolute emancipation from the command of DNA. Precisely because no other known life-form could do or even conceive such a thing, humanity must. Science has revealed only one place in the universe tha

38、t is hospitable to intelligent life, and humans are the only intelligence that, as far as is known, has ever enjoyed the opportunity to occupy it. If people left the stage after a reasonable run, in the fullness of time intelligence could evolve again (dolphin-people? Chimp-people? orchid(兰花 )-peopl

39、e?). And then, in due course, when this new species deciphered(译解 ) human books or reached the marker that might be left for them on the windless moon, they would know that man ended his dominion so that theirs might begin. Imagine, then, how they will regard us. It is, far and away, the greatest ac

40、t of goodness ever contemplated, the ennoblement of a whole species; an act, almost, of angels. 63 According to the passage, what might be human beings best choice for the final exit? （ A） Leaving the timing to nature. （ B） The saurian-like elimination. （ C） Being burned by the suns heat. （ D） An ex

41、it driven by mans rationality. 64 What does the author think interstellar travel can do? （ A） It practically enables human to escape the end of the world. （ B） It simply postpones the process of human extinction. （ C） It helps human avoid the fate of being vaporized or frozen. （ D） It is a way to he

42、lp human escape from death by gravity. 65 The author may agree that to call time on the human race by necessity would be _. （ A） ignoble （ B） victorious （ C） inevitable （ D） impossible 66 The writer cites Jascha Heifetzs example mainly because _. （ A） he is a skillful violinist （ B） he quits the con

43、cert stage at his peak （ C） he ends every show gracefully （ D） he is adorned by his audience 67 According to the author, after human left the stage, a new species would develop _. （ A） in a process similar to that of humans evolution （ B） from dolphin, chimp or orchid to human again （ C） as much int

44、elligence as human （ D） after a particular span of time 三、 Part V Cloze (15 minutes) Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage. 67 Agriculture is undoubtedly the most

45、 important sector in the economies of most non-oil exporting African countries. It【 C1】 _ about 30% of Africas GDP and contributes【 C2】 _ 50% of the total export value,【 C3】 _ 70% of the continents population depending on the sector for their【 C4】 _ . Production is subsistence in nature with a high【

46、 C5】 _ on the rain. The debate on climate change and its impacts on agriculture is【 C6】 _ very crucial to the very survival of the continent and its people. The continent is particularly【 C7】 _ to climate change because it includes some of the worlds poorest nations. The climate in Africa is【 C8】 _

47、tropical in nature, which is broadly【 C9】_ into three main climatic zones:【 C10】 _ equatorial, dry, and temperate(温带 ). Within these zones, altitude and other localized【 C11】 _ also produce distinctive regional climates. Climate change,【 C12】 _ indicated by prolonged drought is one of the most serio

48、us climatic【 C13】 _ affecting the agricultural sector of the continent. As most of the agriculture activities in African countries hinges on rain fed, any adverse changes in the climate would likely have a【 C14】 _ effect on the sector in the region. 【 C15】 _ changes in the climate may affect the whole continent, its【 C16】_ may vary across the continent. In northeast Africa, more intense dry periods and shorter wet seasons are expected to affect even huge river systems such as the Blue Nile, leading to serious w