[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242（无答案）.doc

1、大学英语六级（2013 年 12 月考试改革适用）模拟试卷 242（无答案）一、Part I Writing1 Directions：For this part，you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled The Importance of Social PracticeYou should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 wordsWrite your essay on Answer Sheet 11对于是否应该参加社会实践，大家看法不一2参加社会实践的重要性

2、Section A（A）To tell him he has got the post of a manager.（B） To have a private conversation with him.（C） To inform him something about the interview.（D）To discuss the future of the company with him.（A）The mans professional background.（B） The mans major successes till now.（C） The mans view on the com

3、pany.（D）The mans questions about the job.（A）His educational background.（B） The reason why he quitted his previous job.（C） The turning point in his career.（D）Examples of problems he met with.（A）It has to be long and in detail.（B） It will be given in a formal style.（C） It will include his view on the

4、company.（D）It will be given next Tuesday morning.（A）Romantic love.（B） Mystery murder.（C） Science fiction.（D）Ocean adventure.（A）Visit the stories setting places.（B） Look for all the details about the stories.（C） Have a further talk with persons involved.（D）Make some character analysis.（A）Indifferent（

5、B） Suspicious.（C） Favorable.（D）Critical.（A）It has been finished.（B） It will be published this month.（C） It contains many detective stories.（D）It ranks the top of bestseller lists.Section B（A）Delayed treatments.（B） The quakes themselves.（C） Lack of food and water.（D）Collapse of buildings.（A）Earthquak

6、es may happen anywhere at anytime.（B） The precise place and time of an earthquake.（C） Whether the majority of people know about first aid.（D）Whether people live and work near earthquake belts.（A）They have compared animal behaviors with humans.（B） They knew how to avoid earthquakes.（C） They tried man

7、y ways to decrease earthquakes.（D）They showed increasing success in predicting earthquakes.（A）Young people tended to do what they like.（B） Companies preferred male workers to female.（C） Young men got better pay than young women.（D）Good looking people earned more than bright ones.（A）The self-assured

8、ones.（B） The high-income ones.（C） The average ones.（D）The popular ones.（A）Brighter people got better pay.（B） Pay scales were not fair at all.（C） Males were brighter than females.（D）Pays depended on ones age.（A）He has to be 40 per cent smarter.（B） He has to work for longer time.（C） He needs to have a

9、 better education.（D）He should have something special. Section C（A）We tend to be satisfied after a second thought.（B） We are not always thrilled with them afterwards.（C） We always regret the hasty ones we made.（D）We are mostly happy with whom weve become.（A）Their misconception about the power of tim

10、e.（B） Their ignorance about the rate of change in life.（C） Their fantasy that the youth change more slowly.（D）Their belief that adults change faster than babies.（A）They are of the same importance all through ones life.（B） They will not change at least in the next 10 years.（C） The balance of them wil

11、l shift as time goes by.（D）They change more in teenage years than in elder years.（A）It will still resist online service for some time.（B） Its eager to launch online service soon.（C） It might not resist online service anymore.（D）Its still hesitant about offering online service.（A）They are eager to tr

12、y grocery websites.（B） They are very cautious about trying it.（C） They resist buying fresh produce online.（D）They find it convenient and satisfactory.（A）It is the biggest American online grocer.（B） It can make a profit from its online operation.（C） Its customers are mainly from Manhattan.（D）It will

13、do some innovation on online service.（A）They are too afraid of Amazon to offer online-grocery service.（B） They wont take Walmarts online-grocery business seriously.（C） They are afraid the online shopping market will expand.（D）They decide not to repeat the mistakes others have made.（A）Nothing but the

14、 darkness.（B） Fireflies blinking everywhere.（C） A world of lighting animals.（D）Wreckage of ancient ships.（A）To protect themselves or attract prey.（B） To make the deep sea bright and beautiful.（C） To find their ways in darkness.（D）To attract mates and warn enemies.（A）To explain its specialty and func

15、tion.（B） To show shallow-water animals are also amazing.（C） To explain how animals adapt to surroundings.（D）To call on people to protect sea animals.Section A26 Innovation, the effective recipe of progress, has always cost people their jobs. Over the past 30 years the digital revolution has【C1】_ man

16、y of the mid-skill jobs that supported 20th-century middle-class life. Typists, ticket agents, bank tellers and many production-line jobs have been【C2 】_ with.For those who believe that technological progress has made the world a better place, such change is a natural part of rising【C3】_ . Although

17、innovation kills some jobs, it creates new and better ones, as a more productive society becomes richer and its wealthier inhabitants【C4】_ more goods and services. A hundred years ago one in three American workers was employed on a farm. Today less than 2% of them produce far more food. The millions

18、 freed from the land were not delivered to joblessness, but found better-paid work as the economy grew more【C5 】_ . Today the pool of secretaries has【C6】_ , but there are ever more computer programmers and web designers.Optimism remains the right starting-point, but for workers the dislocating (扰乱的)

19、 effects of technology may make themselves evident faster than its benefit. Even if new jobs and【C7】_ products emerge, in the short term income gaps will widen, causing huge social dislocation and perhaps even changing politics. Technologys impact will feel like a tornado, hitting the rich world fir

20、st, but【C8】_ sweeping through poorer countries too. Worse, it seems likely that this wave of technological【C9】_ to the job market has only just started. From driverless cars to clever household devices, innovations that already exist could destroy jobs that have【C10】_ been untouched.A) prosperity E)

21、 partition I) conversely M) demandB) dispensed F) eventually J) shrunk N) complicatedC) inquire G) sophisticated K) fragile O) hithertoD) wonderful H) displaced L) disruption27 【C1 】28 【C2 】29 【C3 】30 【C4 】31 【C5 】32 【C6 】33 【C7 】34 【C8 】35 【C9 】36 【C10 】Section B36 When Mom and Dad Grow OldA The pr

22、ospect of talking to increasingly fragile parents about their future can be “one of the most difficult challenges adult children will ever face,“ says Clarissa Green, a Vancouver therapist “People often tell me they dont want to raise sensitive issues with their parents about bringing in caregivers

23、or moving,“ she says. “Theyll say, I dont want to see Dad cry.“ But Green usually responds, “Whats wrong with that?“ Adult children, she says, need to try to join their parents in grieving their decline, acknowledge their living arrangements may no longer work and, if necessary, help them say goodby

24、e to their beloved home. “Its sad. And its supposed to be. Its about death itself.“B There are almost four million men and women over age 65 in Canada. Nearly two thirds of them manage to patch together enough supportfrom family, friends, private and government servicesto live independently until vi

25、rtually the day they die, according to Statistics CanadaC Of the Canadian seniors who live to 85 and over, almost one in three end up being movedsometimes kickingto group living for the last years of their lives. Even in the best-case scenarios (可能出现的情况 ), such dislocations can bring sorrow. “Often

26、the family feels guilty, and the senior feels abandoned,“ says Charmaine Spencer, a professor in the gerontology department of Simon Eraser University. Harassed with their own careers and children, adult children may push their parents too fast to make a major transition.D Val MacDonald, executive d

27、irector of the B.C. Seniors Services Society, cautions adult children against imposing their views on aging parents. “Many baby boomers can be quite patronizing (高人一等的),“ she says. Like many who work with seniors, MacDonald suggests adult children devote many conversations over a long period of time

28、 to collaborating on their parents future, raising feelings, questions and optionsgently, but frankly. However, many middle-aged adults, according to the specialists, just muddle (应付) through with their aging parents.E When the parents of Nancy Woods of Mulmur Hills, Ont, were in their mid-80s, they

29、 made the decision to downsize from their large family home to an apartment in Toronto. As Woodss parents, George and Bernice, became frailer, she believed they knew she had their best interests at heart. They agreed to her suggestion to have Meals on Wheels start delivering lunches and dinners. How

30、ever, years later, after a crisis, Woods discovered her parents had taken to throwing out the prepared meals. Her dad had appreciated them, but Bernice had come to believe they were poisoned. “My father was so loyal,“ says Woods, “he had hid that my mother was overwhelmed by paranoia (偏执狂).“ To her

31、horror, Woods discovered her dad and mom were “living on crackers and oatmeal porridge“ and were weakening from the impoverished diet Her dad was also falling apart with the stress of providing for Bernicea common problem when one spouse tries to do everything for an ailing partner. “The spouse whos

32、 being cared for might be doing well at home,“ says Spencer, “but often the other spouse is burned out and ends up being hospitalized.“F Fortunately, outside help is often available to people struggling through the often-distressing process of helping their parents explore an important shift. Sons a

33、nd daughters can bring in brochures or books on seniors issues, as well as introduce government health-care workers or staff at various agencies, to help raise issues and open up discussions, says Val MacDonald, whose nonprofit organization responds to thousands of calls a year from British Columbia

34、ns desperate for information about how to weave through the dizzying array of seniors services and housing options. The long list of things to do, says MacDonald, includes assessing their ability to live independently; determining your comfort level with such things as bathing a parent; discussing w

35、ith all household members whether it would be healthy for an elderly relative to move in; monitoring whether, out of pure duty, youre overcommitting yourself to providing a level of care that could threaten your own well-being.G The shock phone call that flung Nancy Woods and her parents into action

36、 came from her desperate dad. “I got this call from my father that he couldnt cope anymore. My mother was setting fires in the apartment,“ she says. “He didnt want to see it for what it was. Up to then hed been in denial.“H Without knowing she was following the advice of experts who recommend using

37、outside sources to stimulate frank discussion with parents, Woods grabbed a copy of The 36-Hour Day: A Family Guide to Caring for Persons With Alzheimer Disease, Related Dementing Illnesses, and Memory Loss in Later Life. She read sections of the book to her dad and asked him, “Who does that sound l

38、ike?“ Her father replied, “Its Mother. Its dementia (痴呆).“ At that point, Woods said, her dad finally recognized their tragic plight. She told her father she would help them move out of their apartment. “He nodded. He didnt yell or roar. He took it on the chin (忍受痛苦).“I Woods regrets that she “had n

39、ot noticed small details signalling Moms dementia.“ But shes satisfied her dad accepted his passage into a group residence, where he and his wife could stay together in a secure unit where staff were trained to deal with patients with dementia. “From the moment they moved into the Toronto nursing ho

40、me, their physical health improved. On the other hand, it was the beginning of the end in terms of their mental abilities. Perhaps they couldnt get enough stimulation. Perhaps it was inevitable.“J After my father died in 2002, the grim reality of my mothers sharply declining memory set in starkly. W

41、ith her expanding dementia, Mom insisted on staying in her large North Shore house, even though she was confused about how to cook, organize her day or take care of herself. For the next three years we effectively imposed decisions on her, most of them involving bringing in caregivers, including fam

42、ily members. In 2005 Mom finally agreed, although she barely knew what was happening, to move to a nearby nursing home, where, despite great confusion, she is happier.K As Spencer says, the sense of dislocation that comes with making an important passage can be “a very hard adjustment for a senior a

43、t the best of times. But its worse if its not planned out.“37 One who works with seniors reminds baby boomers not to intrude their opinions on aging parents.38 Adult children can make use of outside sources to help their parents make an important shift.39 Meals prepared for Nancy Woods parents were

44、thrown away because they were believed to be poisoned.40 As it is difficult for a senior to make adjustment to an important change, it would be better to make plans in advance for them.41 According to Statistics Canada, most seniors over sixty-five try to get support from various sources to live ind

45、ependently until they die.42 After moving into the nursing home, Nancy Woodss parents became healthier physically.43 Adult children tend to push their parents to group living without thorough consideration because of the pressure from careers and children.44 The organization Val MacDonald set up hel

46、ps adult children with their aging parents issues for free.45 A therapist advises adult children should try to share their fragile parents grieving feelings instead of avoiding sensitive issues. 46 Realizing their serious situation, Nancy Woods father agreed to move out of their apartment.Section C4

47、6 Many who think they have food allergies (过敏) actually do not. A new report, commissioned by the federal government, finds the field is full of poorly done studies, misdiagnoses and tests that can give misleading results.While there is no doubt that people can be allergic to certain foods, the true

48、 incidence of food allergies is only about 8 percent for children and less than 5 percent for adults, said Dr. Marc Riedl, an author of the new paper and an allergist and immunologist at the University of California, Los Angeles.Yet about 30 percent of the population believe they have food allergies

49、. And, Dr. Riedl said, about half the patients coming to his clinic because they had been told they had a food allergy did not really have one. Dr. Riedl does not dismiss the seriousness of some peoples responses to foods. But, he says, “That accounts for a small percentage of what people term food allergies. “ Even people who had food allergies as children may not have them as adults. People often shed allergies, though no one knows why. And sometimes people