[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229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 229及答案与解析 一、 Part I Writing 1 For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled The Days We Should Keep in Mind. You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words. Write your essay on Answer Sheet 1. 1.很多年轻人从不会忘记庆祝自己的生日，父母的生日却不知道 2.这种

2、现象说明了什么问题，原因是什么 3.我们应该怎么做 Section A （ A） They are held twice a year. （ B） They were first held in 1927. （ C） They are given for excellence in films. （ D） They are less desired than the Grammy Awards. （ A） By an anonymous ballot. （ B） By an open vote. （ C） By rigid rules. （ D） By their personal prefe

3、rence. （ A） One of the academy members. （ B） Creator of the Oscar statue. （ C） An Oscar winner. （ D） A nominee for the Oscar award. （ A） She had great interest in the history of the Oscars. （ B） She searched the information from the Internet. （ C） She took a course in the history of film. （ D） She m

4、ajored in motion pictures. （ A） Give suggestions for revision. （ B） Write one for her. （ C） Point out grammatical errors in it. （ D） Cut some unnecessary materials. （ A） Law. （ B） Music. （ C） Geology. （ D） Biology. （ A） Her well-prepared speech. （ B） Her motivation and interest. （ C） Her unique musi

5、c background. （ D） Her good explanations. （ A） Look through her materials. （ B） Make preparation for the interview. （ C） Pay attention to the presentation. （ D） Add something to make herself stand out. Section B （ A） They worked for long time and nearly had no leisure. （ B） They usually had to work

6、8 hours each day. （ C） They worked very hard but earned little. （ D） They had to support a large family. （ A） How to deal with stress at work. （ B） How to take care of the aged people. （ C） How to use the leisure time wisely. （ D） How to improve their living conditions. （ A） More money and less work

7、. （ B） Freedom and good relationship. （ C） Respect and confidence. （ D） Fresh energy and active interest. （ A） It dates back to more than 1800 years ago. （ B） It is liked by men and women of all ages. （ C） It usually gains favor among older men. （ D） It has the same popularity as pipe smoking. （ A）

8、The cost of growing tobacco increased. （ B） Many people began to give up smoking. （ C） The government banned smoking and cigarette. （ D） The taxes on cigarettes increased greatly. （ A） Go to the designated areas. （ B） Ask for the conductors permission. （ C） Share with other passengers. （ D） Have som

9、ething else instead of cigarettes. （ A） It shows the components of each cigarette. （ B） It warns us that smoking is dangerous to health. （ C） It tells people the side effects of smoking cigarettes. （ D） It reminds people not to smoke in public places. Section C （ A） The Internet that brings buyers a

10、nd sellers together. （ B） The founders with a successful business background. （ C） The sound management that helps making money. （ D） The enormous financial power derived from production. （ A） She likes all the senior staff in the company very much. （ B） She has recently bought an experienced manage

11、ment team. （ C） She had already been successful before founding eBay. （ D） She was the first CEO to emphasize profitability in eBay. （ A） Because the online marketplace that it provides sells goods quickly. （ B） Because they have sales assistants to deal with the capital effectively. （ C） Because th

12、eir capital is not used in buildings, factories, and warehouses. （ D） Because they produce, sell and ship things in an extremely efficient way. （ A） They are too late to occupy some of the important markets. （ B） The sellers have stolen goods and sold them through eBay. （ C） The buyers have often pu

13、t in false bids to increase the price. （ D） They encounter the bottleneck after 11 years of development. （ A） It is unaccepted by so many students. （ B） It is taken directly from students salary. （ C） It becomes low when the loan is received. （ D） It begins right after the loan is received. （ A） Bec

14、ause many jobs require both the degree and work experience. （ B） Because the British companies emphasize more on work experience. （ C） Because now graduates are always not willing to start at the bottom. （ D） Because a university degree nowadays is no longer worth the tuition. （ A） 1.96 million. （ B

15、） 19.6 million. （ C） 1.97 million. （ D） 19.7 million. （ A） Feeling is expressed by using “I feel as if.“ （ B） Feeling is expressed by using “I feel it.“ （ C） Thought is expressed by using “I feel like.“ （ D） Thought is expressed by using “I feel + adj.“ （ A） Showing other people how much we care abo

16、ut them. （ B） Respecting the feelings and emotions of other people. （ C） Understanding and analyze our emotions thoroughly. （ D） Practising getting a positive value from our emotions. （ A） Ask them why they ignore your feelings. （ B） Listen to them in a non-judgmental way. （ C） Criticize, advise, co

17、ntrol or lecture them. （ D） Try not to spend too much time with them. Section A 26 The local education authority compiled a list of “potential security problems“ on campus last week. They include fire accidents, traffic accidents, crime, bombing, stealing, social communication problems and【 C1】 _ .

18、“Though the ivory tower shuts out some dangers from the outside world, it is not a paradise【 C2】 _ to crimes and accidents. School-safety has been in focus,“ said an official of the local Education Committee. In the first six months of this year, 25 students were victims of【 C3】 _ accidents or crime

19、s and 10 students committed suicide. While numbers remain low, how can campuses be made safer places to live in? Making safety education compulsory is the governments answer. University students will soon receive compulsory classes. In the lessons, they will learn how to protect themselves by lookin

20、g at real【 C4】 _ on campus. For example, girls will learn when and where sexual harassment (骚扰 ) is most【 C5】_ to happen. They will also get【 C6】 _ on how to protect themselves, like not wearing mini skirts in crowded public places. Students should not only be aware of the dangers from the outside,

21、but also those self-inflicted. Even though it【 C7】 _ last in the list, it doesnt mean suicide is the least serious. The newspaper【 C8】 _ a growing number of suicide attempts on September 15. Between May and July, three university students killed themselves by jumping from buildings. One girl left a

22、note saying that she was “sick of life and【 C9】 _ .“ In the safety course, students are given tips on how to cope with pressure. They are also encouraged to go to the school psychologists if they feel depressed. They will learn what to do if their classmates behave【 C10】 _ because of depression. A)

23、comes E) normally I) tips M) fatal B) immune F) abnormally J) headlines N) escalates C) perpetual G) reflected K) likely 0) suicides D) depressed H) reported L) cases 27 【 C1】 28 【 C2】 29 【 C3】 30 【 C4】 31 【 C5】 32 【 C6】 33 【 C7】 34 【 C8】 35 【 C9】 36 【 C10】 Section B 36 Nurse Home Visits: A Boost fo

24、r Low-Income Parents A Nurse home visitor Tammy Ballard has had some memorable experiences in close to a decade of helping new mothers raising their children in poverty in Dayton, Ohio. Once, she arrived at a new clients home to find a TV news crew waiting outside; apparently, someone fleeing gunfir

25、e had sought shelter there. Another time, she knocked on a door only to hear screaming in response, but no one would let her in. Later she learned it was the familys parrots, which had -been trained to shout at visitors. B Ballards job when she can get in the house is to try to give low-income paren

26、ts a leg up. She teaches them many of the same child-rearing techniques that give the children of middle-class and educated parents an edge socially and in school and that instruction is often eye-opening for both Ballard and her clients. You would be surprised to know what new parents dont know, Ba

27、llard says, recalling the case of one father who thought babies couldnt hear at birth. “He asked, When do their eyes open? He thought they were like puppies,“ she says. C Theres no doubt that low-income parents indeed, most new parents could use a little guidance. In some countries, like France, tha

28、t guidance is institutionalized. Nurse home visits for all pregnant and new mothers are routine and free of charge, sponsored by the government. In the U.S. the national Nurse-Family Partnership program (NFP) covers about 16,300 families living in poverty in 25 states, but President Obama has said h

29、e plans to expand the benefit, extending it to every first-time poor mother in the countryabout 570,000 women each year. The Presidents stimulus plan includes more than $3 billion in funding for early-childhood-intervention programs such as Head Start and Early Head Start. D The question is, will th

30、e money make a real difference in childrens lives? In a recent article in The New York Times, Douglas Besharov of the conservative think tank American Enterprise Institute and a colleague argued that expanding pre-kindergarten programs “without demanding reforms will not help children.“ Other critic

31、s have also stated that funding early-childhood initiatives is just a consolation to liberal interest groups. E But the science supporting warm and fuzzy early-childhood interventions is sound and is only getting stronger. “Theres converging evidence from neuroscience (神经学 ), social science and anim

32、al data,“ says Martha Farah, director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania. “If you want to invest societal resources where they will have the biggest benefit for all of us, clearly the evidence is there now that protecting children from the worst kinds of depri

33、vation in their youngest years will result in more functional, capable, prosocial citizens.“ F The NFP was developed in the 1970s by David Olds, a professor of pediatrics (小儿科 ) and preventive medicine at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. NFP involves about 64 home visits from a nur

34、se during the first 2.5 years of a childs life. Many of the new mothers who receive the benefit are single, are on welfare, have low education levels and are dealing with addiction, mental illness and family violence. Nurses visit once a week during pregnancy and early infancy, answering health ques

35、tions, teaching basic parenting skills and, crucially, helping moms whose own early lives were often characterized by chaos build confidence that they can do better for their children. G These visits have a pretty good payoff. A recent analysis by the Rand Corp. found that for every dollar spent pro

36、viding nurse visitors to high-risk families, the government could save nearly $6 in welfare, juvenile-justice and health-care costs down the line. Dividends for the families well-being may be even higher. A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (J.A.M.A.) a few years ago

37、 found that children in the north of New York whose mothers were visited by nurses during pregnancy and two years after birth were 59% less likely to have been arrested 15 years later, compared with a control group. H Another study, also in J.A.M.A., found that nurse home visits were associated with

38、 a nearly 50% drop in rates of child abuse or neglect in new families and that visits increased the amount of time between a mothers first and second pregnancies. Rates of hypertension (高血压 ), which is known to interfere with fetal brain development, were also reduced. And mothers spent less time on

39、 welfare and worked more. I Theres really no mystery to the programs success, says Olds. Simple interventions, like encouraging new parents to show affection to their children or to talk to them more, result in huge rewards for babies. In poor families, adults tend to speak to babies only to issue c

40、ommands, in a business-only style of parenting rather than talking to children to communicate affection, identify objects, introduce concepts or teach language a phenomenon more common in middle-class and wealthy households. Studies have shown that by pre-school age, children whose parents gesture o

41、r talk to them less in babyhood know significantly fewer vocabulary words than children whose parents engage them more often. That deficit can affect students performance for years. J What happens early has a long-term impact, says Olds. Indeed, about 90% of a childs brain growth takes place before

42、kindergarten, so its critical to teach new parents what to expect as a child develops not only during pregnancy and early childhood but also as the child matures. A large part of nurse home visits are designed to teach parents how to respond to their children as they age and help them manage the ext

43、ra burden of parenting with few resources. Says Olds: “Learning to understand childrens motivations and abilities helps parents treat them more sensitively and responsively, and that makes it easier for children to accept guidance and not respond provocatively.“ K It also creates a less stressful en

44、vironment and protects against child abuse and neglect, and those reductions can in turn cut childrens risks of later engaging in crime and suffering from addiction, mental illness, obesity and cardiovascular (心血管的 ) disease. The key, according to Olds research, begins with properly trained nurses;

45、home visits by paraprofessionals (专业人员的助手 ) arent as effective. Despite the current shortage of nurses in the U.S., Olds says his program is ready to grow. “The NFP is ready for substantial expansion, as long as we recognize that serving 500,000 new families per year will take time.“ But its an inve

46、stment that self-propagates. Once the nurses have educated new moms, says Ballard, the mothers start educating one another. “Its so neat to watch,“ she says. “We give information to our clients, and they share with neighbors. One client was the go-to person for everything. Shed say, Talking to your

47、babies makes them smart. And the other moms would always come to her.“ 37 Encouraging parents to express affection does good to babies. 38 It is best to invest societal resources into home visit programs. 39 In some countries, nurse home visit programs are funded by government. 40 Nurse home visit i

48、s eye-opening because of clients poor childcare knowledge. 41 A nurse home visitor found that her clients raise parrots to scare away visitors. 42 Some people claim that pre-kindergarten programs wont help unless a demanding reform is carried out. 43 According to a study, children are less likely to

49、 commit crimes if their mothers have received visits by nurses in early years. 44 Compared with middle-class ones, parents of poor families are likely to speak to babies only to issue commands. 45 To make it easier for children to accept guidance, it is important for parents to understand their childrens motivations and abilities. 46 According to a research, an effective home visit attributes to properly trained nurses. Section C 46 It is a familiar scene these days: