[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233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 233及答案与解析 一、 Part I Writing 1 Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay based on the picture below. You should start your essay with a brief account of the picture, analyze its causes and then explain what you will do to solve the probl

2、em. You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words. Section A （ A） Satisfied. （ B） Enthusiastic. （ C） Disappointed. （ D） Indifferent. （ A） Close relationship with the manager. （ B） Competence in the work. （ C） Good educational background. （ D） Unusual flattering tricks. （ A） He is a

3、director in the company. （ B） He is unqualified for his job. （ C） He is the managers close friend. （ D） He is a relative of the mans. （ A） Stupid orders given by his manager. （ B） The empty feeling of being useless. （ C） Orders given out by his wife. （ D） The insufficient pension. （ A） How the bones

4、 repair themselves. （ B） What human bones are made of. （ C） How much people have learnt about bones. （ D） How to combat with bone diseases. （ A） It breaks down the bone tissue. （ B） It produces the new tissue. （ C） It fills in the bone holes. （ D） It completely repairs the bones. （ A） They have diff

5、iculty identifying these cells. （ B） They arent sure how these cells work. （ C） Theyve learned how to reproduce these cells. （ D） Theyve found similar cells in other species. （ A） A way to prevent a bone disease. （ B） An understanding between bone tissue and other tissue. （ C） A way to understand ho

6、w specialized bone cells have evolved. （ D） A solution by creating artificial bone tissue. Section B （ A） Her business skills. （ B） Her study experience abroad. （ C） Her critical thinking ability. （ D） Her cultural knowledge. （ A） It paid off. （ B） It turned out to be a nightmare. （ C） It was overch

7、arged. （ D） It made her an expert. （ A） Finances, time and property. （ B） Tuition, spending and relationships. （ C） Money, safety and time limitations. （ D） Experience, spending constraints and security. （ A） Doubtful. （ B） Guilty. （ C） Sad. （ D） Pessimistic. （ A） Because he benefited a lot from peo

8、ples advice. （ B） Because he always held up to his dreams. （ C） Because he was in fact a versatile genius. （ D） Because he got great help from his followers. （ A） His body was too strong and his name too long. （ B） He never made any movie poster with his name. （ C） His face was too ugly and his brai

9、n too simple. （ D） He played too many Nazi roles on the screen. （ A） Fabulous fortune. （ B） Faith in himself. （ C） Larger circle of friends. （ D） A bigger goal. Section C （ A） He did not pass A level. （ B） He was hurt in a road accident. （ C） He was lost on his vacation abroad. （ D） He kept hitting

10、himself on the head. （ A） Which college he will be enrolled in. （ B） The exam results are gloomy. （ C） He cant study maths any more. （ D） His dream can never come true. （ A） Taking good care of our children to make them feel happy. （ B） Finding colorful extracurricular activities for our children. （

11、 C） Educating our children exam grades dont mean all to them. （ D） Training our children to control all the things happening in life. （ A） He closes his design studio for a whole year. （ B） He goes to New York for a sight-seeing tour. （ C） He writes a new song for a famous musician. （ D） He opens a

12、new chain studio in a different city. （ A） Its better to make full use of them to enjoy ourselves. （ B） Its abnormal to use them to tender our grandchildren. （ C） Its helpful to use some of them beforehand in working years. （ D） Its wise to use them on re-employment to earn more money. （ A） A simple

13、 concept of investing in business. （ B） A simple concept of enjoying life. （ C） A complex concept with 3 meanings. （ D） A complex concept with 4 meanings. （ A） A lady with a very slim figure. （ B） A sports player without legs. （ C） A player competing in a ranning race. （ D） A lady holding a one-year

14、 old baby. （ A） She watched a horse race there. （ B） She took part in a softball match there. （ C） She competed in a track meet there. （ D） She went there for a sports award. （ A） They are perfect for a long-distance runner. （ B） They are made of a wood and plastic compound. （ C） They are suitable f

15、or all kinds of beautiful socks. （ D） They are badly in need of a plastic surgery. （ A） Receive an operation to cure her heart attack. （ B） Compete with those big potatoes in sports field. （ C） Jump over a new height of 5 feet and 11 inches. （ D） Make an attempt to run her first race in Boston. Sect

16、ion A 26 It seems logical: College graduates have lower unemployment and earn more than less educated workers, so, the thinking goes, the fix for todays weak growth in jobs and wages is to make sure that more people earn college degrees. But thats a common misperception,【 C1】 _ attention from the se

17、rious work that has to be done to create jobs and improve incomes. A college education remains a【 C2】 _ to more stable, higher-paying employment. The recent jobless rate for college graduates ages 25 and older was 3.2 percent. That is a far lower rate of joblessness than for high school graduates an

18、d people without high school【 C3】 _ . But that doesnt mean that enough good jobs are, or will be,【 C4】 _ for college graduates. The jobless rate for those under 25 averaged 8.2 percent this year. Recent graduates also face【 C5】 _ underemployment, meaning that they work in jobs that typically do not

19、require bachelors degrees. Pay,【 C6】 _ , has not changed for college-educated workers over the past 12 years. Thats better than【 C7】 _ , as has been the case for less-educated workers. But it also shows that a college education, in and of itself, does not create good jobs at good pay. For that, a【 C

20、8】 _ economy is essential including consistent pro-employment policies and investments by business and government. Right now, the【 C9】 _for more good jobs at good pay is not good. According to recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, of the 20 occupations expected to add the most new jobs fr

21、om 2012 to 2022, only one general and operations managementrequires a bachelors degree. It also pays well. Most of the other big-growth occupations offered very low or【 C10】 _ pay. A) declining E) qualitative I) moderate M) eligible B) diplomats F) available J) hence N) diplomas C) meanwhile G) evac

22、uated K) diverting O) rising D) outlook H) thriving L) path 27 【 C1】 28 【 C2】 29 【 C3】 30 【 C4】 31 【 C5】 32 【 C6】 33 【 C7】 34 【 C8】 35 【 C9】 36 【 C10】 Section B 36 Are Teenagers Really Careless About Online Privacy? A They share, like, everything. How they feel about a song, their maths homework, li

23、fe (it sucks). Where theyll be next; who theyre with now. Photos, of themselves and others, doing stuff they quite probably shouldnt be. Theyre the digital natives, fresh-minted citizens of a humming online world. Theyve grown up are still growing up with texting, Facebook, line, Snapchat. Theyre th

24、e young, and they couldnt care less about privacy. At least, thats the assumption. But amid a rash of revelations about government surveillance (监视 ), it seems its wrong. Young people do care, a lot, about privacy just not the kind of privacy that exercises their parents. B True, young people post i

25、nformation about themselves online that horrifies their elders. There remains “a basic lack of awareness“ about “the potential longer-term impact of information leaks“, says Andy Phippen, professor of social responsibility in information technology at Plymouth University. “Many younger people just d

26、ont think in terms of their future employability, of identity theft, of legal problems if theyre being provocative. Not to mention straightforward reputational issues.“ (Paris Brown, Phippen adds, “clearly never thought what she tweeted when she was 14“ might one day stop her being Britains first yo

27、uth police commissioner.) C Far more should be done in schools to teach children to be more concerned about the future impact of their online profile and reputation, Phippen argues. But the fact that they make mistakes does not mean they dont care about privacy. In fact, a report in May by the Pew I

28、nternet and the American Life Project found teenagers cared enough about online security for 60% to set their Facebook profiles to “private“ and to judge privacy settings “not difficult at all“ to manage. A similar number said they routinely delete past posts, block people, and post comments only pa

29、rticular viewers typically, close friends would understand. “You have to think about what privacy means,“ says Danah Boyd, a leading youth and social media researcher. “What matters to them is social privacy: its about how to control a social situation, which is something very different from control

30、ling information.“ D The Pew report found that only 9% of teens were “very“ concerned about third parties like companies or government agencies accessing their personal informationcompared with nearly half of their parents. Most young people have precious little idea of how much data social networki

31、ng sites are collecting on them but they tend, on the whole, to be quite relaxed about the idea, particularly if it comes as a trade-off for free use of the service. E Teens, Boyd says, tend to be concerned not by unknown third parties accessing data about them, but by “things that might be seen by

32、the people who have power over them: parents, teachers, college admissions officers. The concern is more about your mother looking at your Facebook profile than government agencies or advertisers using data youve shared.“ F Young people are concerned, in other words, about getting into trouble. But

33、that concern is every bit as real. So teens now manage their online security with “a whole set of strategies“, says Boyd. Many dont tell the truth online: according to the Pew Internet study, 26% of teen social media users say they post fake information like a false name, age or location. Others are

34、 more subtle. Boyd uses the term “social steganography (隐写术 )“ to describe the practice of more than 50% of young people who use in-jokes and obscure references to effectively encode what they post G Nonetheless, says Mary Madden, co-author of the Pew Internet report, all the signs are young people

35、today are increasingly “practising good judgment. Theyll say, I use a filter in my brain; they do a lot of profile pruning (剪切 ), deleting and editing content, deleting tags. Theres a new awareness.“ This generation has, after all, “grown up, learned to function in a world of social surveillance“, s

36、ays Madden. “Far from being privacy-indifferent, they are mindful of what they post. They have a sense that adults are watching.“ H That sentiment may in part explain the recent popularity of new social networking services like Instagram and Snapchat, says Madden: “Some feel the burden of the public

37、 nature of social networking. Theyre creating smaller groups with these new services.“ I Snapchat in particular appeals because it allows users to send annotated pictures, videos and messages to a controlled list of friends and, crucially, to set a time limit for how long they can be viewed before t

38、hey disappear and are deleted. Overall, confirms Madden, “Were seeing a pattern that runs counter to the assumption that theres this sea of young people who just dont care about privacy. Its not borne out by the data. And in some cases, they actually have stronger opinions than some adults.“ J That

39、certainly seems to be the picture emerging from two polls conducted earlier this year by the Pew Research Centre for the People and the Press with the Washington Post and USA Today, in the wake of Edward Snowdens revelations about broad surveillance by state security services. In the first of these

40、polls, on 10 June, younger respondents proved much more likely than older to put personal privacy above an anti-terrorism probe: 45% of 18-to-29-year-olds said personal privacy was more important, even if protecting it limited the ability to investigate terrorist threats compared with 35% in the 30-

41、to-49 age range, and 27% of the over-50s. K The second poll, on 17 June, asked whether Snowdens leaks of classified information about the NSAs phone and email surveillance programmes was in the public interest. It found that people under 30 were the only age group in which “a clear majority“ 60% fel

42、t the revelations served the public interest. Older age groups were either divided, or thought the disclosures harmed the public interest. Similarly, 13-to-29 year-olds were less likely to feel Snowden should be prosecuted: fully 50% felt he should not be, against 44% who thought he should That comp

43、ares with 63% of over-50s who wanted see the whistleblower (告密者 ) pursued. L Carroll Doherty, co-author of the second report, said previous surveys showed also that younger people perhaps because they came of age after the 9/11 attacks were generally less anxious about the risk of terrorism, and les

44、s likely to be concerned about the rise of Islamic extremism. Even after the Boston attacks earlier this year “made young people more aware of threat“, Doherty says, recent polling shows they still remain “less likely to link Islam to terrorism, and less likely to say that government should investig

45、ate threats at a cost of personal privacy“. There is “quite a consistent pattern here“, he says: “Young people tend to take a more liberal approach to issues around security and terrorism.“ M So should the older generation worry? Stanley of the ACLU thinks not. Many people, advertisers included, are

46、 all too happy to create the impression that young people dont care about “silly old privacy concerns“, he blogged. Many privacy invasions, too, “are silent and invisible, and only a minority of people will know and care about them. But where people are aware of their loss of control over how they a

47、re seen by others, people of all ages will always assert their need for privacy in the strongest way.“ 37 When people realize they lose control over their impressions in others eyes, they will state firmly their need for privacy. 38 A report indicated that about sixty percent of teenagers found it v

48、ery easy to manage Facebook privacy settings. 39 In the poll about Snowdens leaks, a majority of people over 50 years old wanted to see Snowden caught. 40 Teens tend to worry about their parents accessing their information online more than they do about third parties. 41 A university professor think

49、s posting too much personal information online may affect the young peoples future job-seeking or online security. 42 Some new networking services grow in popularity because they allow users to create smaller groups. 43 The Pew report found that most young people have almost no idea about the amount of information collected by social networking sites about them. 44 It is said that the teens adopt some strategies like providing false information or