1、2013年 12月大学英语六级真题试卷（一）及答案与解析 一、 Part I Writing 1 For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay on happiness by referring to the saying “Happiness is not the absence of problems, but the ability to deal with them. “ You can cite examples to illustrate your point and then explain how you
2、 can develop your ability to deal with problems and be happy. You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words. Section A （ A） The rock band needs more hours of practice. （ B） The rock band is going to play here for a month. （ C） Their hard work has resulted in a big success. （ D） He a
3、ppreciates the womans help with the band. （ A） Go on a diving tour in Europe. （ B） Add 300 dollars to his budget. （ C） Travel overseas on his own. （ D） Join a package tour to Mexico. （ A） In case some problem should occur. （ B） Something unexpected has happened. （ C） To avoid more work later on. （ D
4、） To make better preparations. （ A） The woman asked for a free pass to try out the facilities. （ B） The man is going to renew his membership in a fitness center. （ C） The woman can give the man a discount if he joins the club now. （ D） The man can try out the facilities before he becomes a member. （
5、 A） He is not afraid of challenge. （ B） He is not fit to study science. （ C） He is worried about the test. （ D） He is going to drop the physics course. （ A） Pay for part of the picnic food. （ B） Invite Garys family to dinner. （ C） Buy something special for Gary. （ D） Take some food to the picnic. （
6、A） Bus drivers working conditions. （ B） A labor dispute at a bus company. （ C） Public transportation. （ D） A corporate takeover. （ A） The bank statement. （ B） Their sales overseas. （ C） The payment for an order. （ D） The check just deposited. （ A） A hotel receptionist. （ B） A private secretary. （ C）
7、 A shop assistant. （ D） A sales manager. （ A） Voice. （ B） Intelligence. （ C） Appearance. （ D） Manners. （ A） Arrange one more interview. （ B） Offer the job to David Wallace. （ C） Report the matter to their boss. （ D） Hire Barbara Jones on a trial basis. （ A） He invented the refrigerator. （ B） He pate
8、nted his first invention. （ C） He got a degree in Mathematics. （ D） He was admitted to university. （ A） He distinguished himself in low temperature physics. （ B） He fell in love with Natasha Willoughby. （ C） He became a professor of Mathematics. （ D） He started to work on refrigeration. （ A） Finding
9、 the true nature of subatomic particles. （ B） Their work on very high frequency radio waves. （ C） Laying the foundations of modern mathematics. （ D） Their discovery of the laws of cause and effect. （ A） To teach at a university. （ B） To patent his inventions. （ C） To spend his remaining years. （ D）
10、To have a three-week holiday. Section B （ A） They have fallen prey to wolves. （ B） They have become a tourist attraction. （ C） They have caused lots of damage to crops. （ D） They have become a headache to the community. （ A） To celebrate their victory. （ B） To cheer up the hunters. （ C） To scare the
11、 wolves. （ D） To alert the deer. （ A） They would help to spread a fatal disease. （ B） They would pose a threat to the children. （ C） They would endanger domestic animals. （ D） They would eventually kill off the deer. （ A） She is an interpreter. （ B） She is a tourist guide. （ C） She is a domestic ser
12、vant. （ D） She is from the royal family. （ A） It was used by the family to hold dinner parties. （ B） It is situated at the foot of a beautiful mountain. （ C） It was frequently visited by heads of state. （ D） It is furnished like one in a royal palace. （ A） It is elaborately decorated. （ B） It has su
13、rvived some 2 000 years. （ C） It is very big, with only six slim legs. （ D） It is shaped like an ancient Spanish boat. （ A） They are uncomfortable to sit in for long. （ B） They do not match the oval table at all. （ C） They have lost some of their legs. （ D） They are interesting to look at. （ A） It i
14、s an uncommon infectious disease. （ B） It destroys the patients ability to think. （ C） It is a disease very difficult to diagnose. （ D） It is the biggest crippler of young adults. （ A） Search for the best cure. （ B） Hurry up and live life. （ C） Write a book about her life. （ D） Exercise more and wor
15、k harder. （ A） Aggressive. （ B） Adventurous. （ C） Sophisticated. （ D） Self-centered. Section C 26 Its difficult to estimate the number of youngsters involved in home schooling, where children are not sent to school and receive their formal education from one or both parents.【 B1】 _and court decision
16、s have made it legally possible in most states for parents to educate their children at home, and each year more people take advantage of that opportunity. Some states require parents or a home tutor to meet teacher certification standards, and many require parents to complete legal forms to verify
17、that their children are receiving【 B2】 _in state-approved curricula. Supporters of home education claim that its less expensive and far more【 B3】_than mass public education. Moreover, they cite several advantages: alleviation of school overcrowding, strengthened family relationships, lower【 B4】 _rat
18、es, the fact that students are allowed to learn at their own rate, increased【 B5】 _, higher standardized test scores, and reduced【 B6】 _problems. Critics of the home schooling movement【 B7】 _that it creates as many problems as it solves. They acknowledge that, in a few cases, home schooling offers e
19、ducational opportunities superior to those found in most public schools, but few parents can provide such educational advantages. Some parents who withdraw their children from the schools【 B8】 _home schooling have an inadequate educational background and insufficient formal training to provide a sat
20、isfactory education for their children. Typically, parents have fewer technological resources【 B9】 _ than do schools. However, the relatively inexpensive computer technology that is readily available today is causing some to challenge the notion that home schooling is in any way【 B10】 _more highly s
21、tructured classroom education. 27 【 B1】 28 【 B2】 29 【 B3】 30 【 B4】 31 【 B5】 32 【 B6】 33 【 B7】 34 【 B8】 35 【 B9】 36 【 B10】 Section A 36 Some performance evaluations require supervisors to take action. Employees who receive a very favorable evaluation may deserve some type of recognition or even a pro
22、motion. If supervisors do not acknowledge such outstanding performance, employees may either lose their【 C1】 _and reduce their effort or search for a new job at a firm that will【 C2】 _them for high performance. Supervisors should acknowledge high performance so that the employee will continue to per
23、form well in the future. Employees who receive unfavorable evaluations must also be given attention. Supervisors must【 C3】 _the reasons for poor performance. Some reasons, such as a family illness, may have a temporary adverse【 C4】 _on performance and can be corrected. Other reasons, such as a bad a
24、ttitude, may not be temporary. When supervisors give employees an unfavorable evaluation, they must decide whether to take any【 C5】_ actions. If the employees were unaware of their own deficiencies, the unfavorable evaluation can pinpoint(指出 )the deficiencies that employees must correct. In this cas
25、e, the supervisor may simply need to monitor the employees【 C6】 _and ensure that the deficiencies are corrected. If the employees were already aware of their deficiencies before the evaluation period, however, they may be unable or unwilling to correct them. This situation is more serious, and the s
26、upervisor may need to take action. The action should be【 C7】 _with the firms guidelines and may include reassigning the employees to new jobs,【 C8】_them temporarily, or firing them. A supervisors action toward a poorly performing worker can【 C9】 _the attitudes of other employees. If no【 C10】_is impo
27、sed on an employee for poor performance, other employees may react by reducing their productivity as well. A)additional F)closely K)penalty B)affect G)consistent L)reward C)aptly H)enthusiasm M)simplifying D)assimilate I)identify N)suspending E)circulation J)impact O)vulnerable 37 【 C1】 38 【 C2】 39
28、【 C3】 40 【 C4】 41 【 C5】 42 【 C6】 43 【 C7】 44 【 C8】 45 【 C9】 46 【 C10】 Section B 46 The College Essay: Why Those 500 Words Drive Us Crazy A)Meg is a lawyer-mom in suburban Washington, D. C., where lawyer-moms are thick on the ground. Her son Doug is one of several hundred thousand high-school seniors
29、 who had a painful fall. The deadline for applying to his favorite college was Nov. 1, and by early October he had yet to fill out the application. More to the point, he had yet to settle on a subject for the personal essay accompanying the application. According to college folklore, a well-turned e
30、ssay has the power to seduce(诱惑 )an admissions committee. “He wanted to do one thing at a time,“ Meg says, explaining her sons delay. “But really, my son is a huge procrastinator(拖延者 ). The essay is the hardest thing to do, so hes put it off the longest.“ Friends and other veterans of the process ha
31、ve warned Meg that the back and forth between editing parent and writing student can be traumatic(痛苦的 ). B)Back in the good old days-say, two years ago, when the last of my children suffered the ordeal(折磨 )- a high-school student applying to college could procrastinate all the way to New Years Day o
32、f their senior year, assuming they could withstand the parental pestering(烦扰 ). But things change fast in the nail-biting world of college admissions. The recent trend toward early decision and early action among selective colleges and universities has pushed the traditional deadline of January up t
33、o Nov. 1 or early December for many students. C)If the time for heel-dragging has been shortened, the true source of the anxiety and panic remains what it has always been. And its not the application itself. A college application is a relatively straightforward questionnaire asking for the basics: n
34、ame, address, family history, employment history. It would all be innocent enough 20 minutes of busy work -except it comes attached to a personal essay. D)“There arc good reasons it causes such anxiety,“ says Lisa Sohmer, director of college counseling at the Garden School in Jackson Heights, N. Y.
35、“Its not just the actual writing. By now everything else is already set. Your course load is set, your grades are set, your test scores are set. But the essay is something you can still control, and its open-ended. So the temptation is to write and rewrite and rewrite.“ Or stall and stall and stall.
36、 E)The application essay, along with its mythical importance, is a recent invention. In the 1930s, when only one in 10 Americans had a degree from a four-year college, an admissions committee was content to ask for a sample of applicants school papers to assess their writing ability. By the 1950s, m
37、ost schools required a brief personal statement of why the student had chosen to apply to one school over another. F)Today nearly 70 percent of graduating seniors go off to college, including two-year and four-year institutions. Even apart from the increased competition, the kids enter a process tha
38、t has been utterly transformed from the one baby boomers knew. Nearly all application materials are submitted online, and the Common Application provides a one-size-fits form accepted by more than 400 schools, including the nations most selective. G)Those schools usually require essays of their own,
39、 but the longest essay, 500 words maximum, is generally attached to the Common Application. Students choose one of six questions. Applicants are asked to describe an ethical dilemma theyve faced and its impact on them, or discuss a public issue of special concern to them, or tell of a fictional char
40、acter or creative work that has profoundly influenced them. Another question invites them to write about the importance(to them, again)of diversity a word that has assumed magic power in American higher education. The most popular option: write on a topic of your choice. H)“Boys in particular look a
41、t the other questions and say, Oh, thats too much work,“ says John Boshoven, a counselor in the Ann Arbor, Mich. , public schools. “They think if they do a topic of their choice, Ill just go get that history paper I did last year on the Roman Empire and turn it into a first-person application essay!
42、 And they end up producing something utterly ridiculous. “ I)Talking to admissions professionals like Boshoven, you realize that the list of “donts“ in essay writing is much longer than the “dos.“ “No book reports, no history papers, no character studies,“ says Sohmer. J)“It drives you crazy, how ea
43、sily kids slip into cliches(老生常谈 ),“ says Boshoven. “They dont realize how typical their experiences are. I scored the winning goal in soccer against our arch-rival. “My grandfather served in World War II, and I hope to be just like him someday. That may mean a lot to that particular kid. But in the
44、 world of the application essay, its nothing. Youll lose the reader in the first paragraph.“ K)“The greatest strength you bring to this essay,“ says the College Boards how-to book, “is 17 years or so of familiarity with the topic: YOU. The form and style are very familiar, and best of all, you are t
45、he world-class expert on the subject of YOU . It has been the subject of your close scrutiny every morning since you were tall enough to see into the bathroom mirror.“ The key word in the Common Application prompts is “you.“ L)The college admission essay contains the grandest American themes status
46、anxiety, parental piety(孝顺 ), intellectual standards and so it is only a matter of time before it becomes infected by the countrys culture of excessive concern with self-esteem. Even if the question is ostensibly(表面上 )about something outside the self(describe a fictional character or solve a problem
47、 of geopolitics), the essay invariably returns to the favorite topic: what is its impact on YOU? M)“For all the anxiety the essay causes,“ says Bill McClintick of Mercersburg Academy in Pennsylvania, “its a very small piece of the puzzle. I was in college admissions for 10 years. I saw kids and pare
48、nts beat themselves up over this. And at the vast majority of places, it is simply not a big variable in the colleges decision-making process.“ N)Many admissions officers say they spend less than a couple of minutes on each application, including the essay. According to a recent survey of admissions
49、 officers, only one in four private colleges say the essay is of “considerable importance“ in judging an application. Among public colleges and universities, the number drops to roughly one in 10. By contrast, 86 percent place “considerable importance“ on an applicants grades, 70 percent on “strength of curriculum. “ O)Still, at the most selective schools, where thousands of candidates may submit identically high grades and test scores, a mar
