[外语类试卷]大学英语六级（2013年12月考试改革适用）模拟试卷114及答案与解析.doc

1、大学英语六级（ 2013年 12月考试改革适用）模拟试卷 114及答案与解析 一、 Part I Writing 1 For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay entitled How to Protect Privacy on Internet. You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words. Write your essay on Answer Sheet 1. Section A （ A） She should have gotte

2、n a better score. （ B） She may need to take another course. （ C） The math course is too short. （ D） The graduation date has been changed. （ A） She doesnt want to attend the conference. （ B） She wonders whether the professor is an accountant. （ C） She doubts class will be cancelled. （ D） She doesnt l

3、ike the professor very much. （ A） Both encyclopedias and dictionaries are interesting. （ B） Dictionaries are most useful than encyclopedias. （ C） She uses a variety of encyclopedias. （ D） She uses encyclopedias more often than dictionaries. （ A） Shes annoyed he didnt find the magazine. （ B） Shell lo

4、ok for the magazine another day. （ C） She appreciates his looking for the magazine. （ D） Shes grateful that he got her the magazine. （ A） To try out for the volleyball team. （ B） Not to worry about what people think. （ C） To get them tickets to the volleyball game. （ D） To spend more time on her stu

5、dies. （ A） Sams knee should be better by now. （ B） This isnt a good time for Sam to quit. （ C） The news about Sam is quite a surprise. （ D） Sam should have stopped playing earlier. （ A） Shes happy that the student center is getting more computers. （ B） Shell let the man use her computer. （ C） She ho

6、pes to take a statistics course soon. （ D） Shed like to buy a computer. （ A） He is a diligent student. （ B） He is extremely lazy. （ C） He is usually late for appointments. （ D） He is usually very punctual. （ A） She doesnt want to pay the late fee. （ B） She was given incorrect information. （ C） She c

7、ant afford to pay her tuition. （ D） She didnt pass her mathematics class last semester. （ A） The director couldnt give her an appointment right away. （ B） The office was closed the first time she went. （ C） The computers were out of service the first time she was there. （ D） She did not have accepta

8、ble identification with her on her first visit. （ A） Her prior schooling. （ B） Her residence. （ C） Her age. （ D） Her driving record. （ A） The director probably isnt able to make an exception. （ B） The director probably wont see her. （ C） The director usually isnt very helpful. （ D） Part-time student

9、s arent the directors responsibility （ A） Chicago. （ B） New York. （ C） Boston. （ D） Detroit. （ A） In a little while. （ B） First thing in the morning. （ C） Pretty quick. （ D） By 8:00. （ A） An Elgin. （ B） A Rolex. （ C） A Seiko. （ D） A Bulova. Section B （ A） There were only grandparents and children. （

10、 B） There was one father, one mother, and their children. （ C） There were many relatives. （ D） There were two or more brothers with their wives. （ A） The women have more freedom and can share in decisions. （ B） The women do not have to be the heads of the family. （ C） The womens relatives do not hel

11、p them. （ D） The women have all the power of the family. （ A） Husbands have to share with their wives and help them. （ B） Older women often live alone when their husbands die. （ C） Family structure is more patriarchal in the nuclear family. （ D） Women have to help sisters, grandparents with housewor

12、k and childcare. （ A） They want to stay home and do the housework. （ B） They do not have enough money. （ C） They have too much work and not much free time. （ D） They have more freedom than in the past. （ A） A kind of exchange. （ B） A kind of business. （ C） A commercialized exchange. （ D） An internat

13、ional friendship association. （ A） Free food and lodging. （ B） Learning English. （ C） Staying with English families. （ D） Meeting young people. （ A） Most of them are satisfied. （ B） Most of them are very happy. （ C） Most of them are unhappy. （ D） Most of them are not satisfied. （ A） By greeting each

14、 other very politely. （ B） By exchanging their views on public affairs. （ C） By displaying their feelings and emotions. （ D） By asking each other some personal questions. （ A） Refrain from showing his feelings. （ B） Express his opinion frankly. （ C） Argue fiercely. （ D） Yell loudly. （ A） Getting ric

15、h quickly. （ B） Distinguishing oneself. （ C） Respecting individual rights. （ D） Doing credit to ones community. Section C 26 I asked successful people what the secret of their success was. I【 B1】 _an early discussion with a vice president of a large oil company. “Oh. I just keep a To Do list.“ lie s

16、aid. I【 B2】 _that quickly, little suspecting the importance of what he said. I was in another city the next day and I hail lunch with a【 B3】 _who practically owned the town. He was chairman of the gas and light company, president of live【 B4】_companies, and had his hand in a dozen other【 B5】 _. I as

17、ked him how he【 B6】 _to get everything done. “Oh, thats easy,“ he said. “I keep a To Do List.“ The first thing in the morning, he told me, he would come in and list what he wanted to【 B7】 _that day. He would arrange the items in priority. During the day he would【 B8】 _items and add others as they oc

18、curred to him. In the evening he would check to see how many of the items he had written down still remained【 B9】 _and then give himself a score. His goal manages to cross off every single item. Again and again in the years since, when I have talked to successful people, the To Do List has【 B10】 _.I

19、 have found that one difference between people at the top of the ladder and people at the bottom is that those at the top use a To Do List every day to make better use o their time; those at the bottom dont. 27 【 B1】 28 【 B2】 29 【 B3】 30 【 B4】 31 【 B5】 32 【 B6】 33 【 B7】 34 【 B8】 35 【 B9】 36 【 B10】 S

20、ection A 36 They go to one of the worlds most prestigious universities and pride themselves on their【 C1】 _intellect but almost half of Cambridge students admit they are not immune from the temptation to cheat and【 C2】 _essays they find on Google, a survey suggests. The results of an anonymous onlin

21、e poll of more than 1,000 students【 C3】 _by the student newspaper Varsity found that 49 percent of undergraduates pass other peoples work off as their own at some point during their university【 C4】_. Only 5 per cent said they had【 C5】 _been caught plagiarising(剽窃 ). Academics in universities across

22、the country have been【 C6】 _by their peers of turning a blind eye to the practice to【 C7】 _their institutions climb national and international rankings. One student told Varsity: “Sometimes, when I am really fed up, I Google the essay title, copy and throw everything on to a blank word【 C8】 _and jig

23、gle the order a bit. They usually end up being the best essays.“ Law students were most prone to plagiarism with 62 per cent of those questioned【 C9】 _to breaking university rules. Robert Foley, a professor in biological anthropology at Kings College Cambridge, said: “It is a depressing set of stati

24、stics.“ A university spokesman told Varsity that it regarded plagiarism as a “serious and potentially disciplinary offence which can lead to failure to obtain, or withdrawal of a degree.“ He said the university was planning to introduce【 C10】 _software to crack down on the problem. A)demonstrate B)s

25、ubmit C)career D)semester E)actually F)finally G)ensure H)conducted I)detection J)document K)promote L)accused M)confess N)admitting O)superior 37 【 C1】 38 【 C2】 39 【 C3】 40 【 C4】 41 【 C5】 42 【 C6】 43 【 C7】 44 【 C8】 45 【 C9】 46 【 C10】 Section B 46 Set Your Bodys Time Clock Our Body Operates Like a C

26、lock AAs the first rays of sunlight filter over the hills of Californias Silicon Valley, Charles Winget opens his eyes. It is barely 5 a.m., but Winget is raring(渴望 )to go. Meanwhile, his wife pulls up the covers and buries her face under the pillow. “For the past fifteen years,“ says Winget, “Weve

27、hardly ever gotten up together.“ BThe Wingets situation is not uncommon. Our bodies operate with the complexity of clocks, and like clocks, we all run at slightly different speeds. Winget is a morning person. His wife is not at her best until after nightfall. CBehavioral scientists long attributed s

28、uch differences to personal eccentricities or early conditioning. This thinking was challenged in the late 1950s by a theory labeled chronobiology by physician-biologist Franz Halberg. In a Harvard University laboratory, Dr. Halberg found that certain blood cells varied predictably in number, depend

29、ing on the time of day they were drawn from the body. The cell count was higher at a given time of day and lower 12 hours later. He also discovered that the same patterns could be detected in heart and metabolic rates and body temperature. DHalbergs explanation: instead of performing at a steady, un

30、changing rate, our systems function on an approximately 25-hour cycle. Sometimes we are accelerating, sometimes slowing down. We achieve peak efficiency for only a limited time each day. Halberg dubbed these bodily cadences “circadian rhythms“. EMuch of the leading work in chronobiology is sponsored

31、 today by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Charles Winget, a NASA research physiologist and authority on circadian rhythms, says that circadian principles have been applied to astronauts work schedules on most of the space-shuttle flights. FThe space-age research has many useful ap

32、plications here on earth. Chronobiologists can tell you when to eat and still lose weight, what time of day youre best equipped to handle the toughest challenges, when to go to the dentist with your highest threshold of pain and when to exercise for maximum effect. Says Winget, “Its a biological law

33、 of human efficiency: to achieve your best with the least effort, you have to coordinate the demands of your activities with your biological capacities.“ How to Figure Out Your Bodys Patterns GCircadian patterns can be made to work for you. But you must first learn how to recognize them. Winget and

34、his associates have developed the following approach to help you figure out your bodys patterns. HTake your temperature one hour after getting up in the morning and then again at four-hour intervals throughout the day. Schedule your last reading as close to bedtime as possible. You should have five

35、readings by the end of the day. INow add your first, third and fifth readings and record this total. Then add your second and fourth readings and subtract this figure from the first total. That number will be an estimate of your body temperature in the middle of the night consider it your sixth read

36、ing. JNow plot all six readings on graph paper. The variations may seem minuscule(极小的 ) only one-tenth of a degree in some cases but they are significant. Youll probably find that your temperature will begin to rise between 3 a.m. and 6 a.m., reaching a peak sometime in the late morning or early aft

37、ernoon. By evening the readings start to drop. They will steadily decline, reaching their nadir(最低点 )at around 2 a.m. Learn to Use Your Bodys Pattern KOf course, individual variations make all the difference. At what hour is your body temperature on the rise? When does it reach its highest point? It

38、s lowest? Once you have familiarized yourself with you patterns, you can take advantage of chronobiology techniques to improve your health and productivity. LWe do our best physical work when our rhythms are at their peak. In most people, this peak lasts about four hours. Schedule your most taxing(费

39、力的 )activities when your temperature is highest. MFor mental activities, the timetable is more complicated. Precision tasks, such as mathematical work are best tackled when your temperature is on the rise. For most people, this is at 8 or 9 a.m. By contrast reading and reflection are better pursued

40、between 2 and 4 p.m., the time when body temperature usually begins to fall. NBreakfast should be your largest meal of the day for effective dieting. Calories burn faster one hour after we wake up than they do in the evening. During a six-year research project known as the Army Diet Study, Dr. Halbe

41、rg, chronobiologist Robert Sothern and research associate Erna Halberg monitored the food intake of two groups of men and women. Both ate only one 2000-calorie meal a day, but one group ate their meal at breakfast and the other at dinner. “All the subjects lost weight eating breakfast,“ states Sothe

42、rn. Those who ate dinner either maintained or gained weight.“ OIf foods are processed differently at different times of day, certainly caffeine, alcohol and medicines will be too. Aspirin compounds, for example, have the greatest potency(力量 )in the morning, between 7 and 8.(So does alcohol.)They are

43、 least effective between 6 p.m. and midnight. Caffeine has the most impact around 3 in the afternoon. Charles Walker, dean of the College of Pharmacy at Florida A an increased amount of our resources being directed to applied or so-called practical subjects, both in teaching and in research; a propr

44、ietary treatment of research results, with the commercial interest in secrecy overriding the publics interest in free, shared knowledge; and an attempt to run the university more like a business that treats industry and students as clients and ourselves as service providers with something to sell. W

45、e pay increasing attention to the immediate needs and demands of our “customers“ and, as the old saying goes, “the customer is always right.“ Privatization is particularly frightening from the point of view of public well-being. A researcher employed by a university-affiliated hospital in Canada, wo

46、rking under contract with a medicine-making company, made public her findings that a particular drug was harmful. This violated the terms of her contract, and so she was fired. Her dismissal caused a scandal, and she was subsequently restored to her previous position. The university and hospital in

47、question are now working out something similar to tenure for hospital-based researchers and guidelines for contracts, so that more public exposure of privately funded research will become possible. This is a rare victory and a small step in the right direction, but the general trend is the other way

48、. Thanks to profit-driven private funding, researchers are not only forced to keep valuable information secret, they are often contractually obliged to keep discovered dangers to public health under wraps, too. Of course, we must not be too naive about this. Governments can unwisely insist on secrec

49、y, too. as did the British Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Food in the work they funded in connection with a certain epidemic. This prevented others from reviewing the relevant data and pointing out that problems were more serious than government was letting in. 62 According to the first paragraph, campus life has become_. （ A） no more aesthetic than before （ B） somewhat harmful （ C） rather