1、大学英语六级改革适用（阅读）模拟试卷 115及答案与解析 Section A 0 Greece, economically, is in the black. With very little to export other than such farm products as tobacco, cotton and fruit, the country earns enough from “ invisible earnings“ to pay for its needed, growing imports. From the sending out of things the Greeks
2、, earn only $ 285 million; from tourism, shipping and the remittances of Greeks abroad, the country takes in an【 C1】 _$ 375 million and this washes out the almost $ 400 million by which imports exceed exports. It has a balanced budget. Although more than one drachma(希腊货币 )out of four goes for defens
3、e, the government ended a recent year with a slight surplus $ 66 million. Greece has a decent【 C2】 _of almost a third of a billion dollars in gold and foreign exchange. It has a government not dependent on coalescing【 C3】 _parties to obtain parliamentary majorities. In thus summarizing a few happy h
4、ighlights, I dont mean to【 C4】 _the vast extent of Greeces problems. It is the poorest country by a wide margin in Free Europe, and poverty is widespread. At best an annual income of $60 to $70 is the lot of many a peasant, and substantial unemployment【 C5】 _the countryside, cities, and towns of Gre
5、ece. There are few natural resources on which to build any substantial industrial base. Some years ago I wrote here: “ Greek statesmanship will have to create an atmosphere in which home and foreign savings will willingly seek investment opportunities in the back ward economy of Greece. So far, most
6、 American and other foreign attempts have【 C6】 _down in the Greek governments red tape and shrewdness about small points. “ Great【 C7】 _have been made. As far back as 1956, expanding tourism seemed a logical way to bring needed foreign currencies and additional jobs to Greece. At that time I talked
7、with the Hilton Hotel people, who had been examining hotel possibilities, and to the Greek government division responsible for this area of the economy. They were hopelessly【 C8】 _in almost total differences of opinion and outlook. Today most of the incredibly varied, beautiful, historical sights of
8、 Greece have new, if in many cases modest, tourist facilities. Tourism itself has jumped from【 C9】_$31 million to over $90 million. There is both a magnificent new Hilton Hotel in Athens and a completely modernized, greatly expanded Grande Bretagne, as well as other first-rate new hotels. And the ad
9、vent of jets has made Athens as【 C10】 _as Paris or Rome without the sky high prices of traffic-choked streets of either. A)reserve I)contend B)incomparable J)additional C)minimize K)execution D)strides L)plagues E)deliberately M)deflect F)incompatible N)accessible G)approximately O)deadlocked H)bogg
10、ed 1 【 C1】 2 【 C2】 3 【 C3】 4 【 C4】 5 【 C5】 6 【 C6】 7 【 C7】 8 【 C8】 9 【 C9】 10 【 C10】 10 Internet advertising is booming. The industry has gone from $9. 6 billion in【 C1】_in 2001 to $27 billion this year, according to Piper Jaffray, an investment bank. And it is still early days. The Internet account
11、s for only 5% of total spending on advertising, but that figure is expected to reach at least 20% in the next few years. The single largest category within this【 C2】 _industry, accounting for nearly half of all spending, is “pay-per-click“ advertising, which is used by firms both large and small to
12、promote their wares. The【 C3】 _of the pay-per-click approach over traditional advertising are obvious. Since advertisers pay only to reach the small subset who actually responds to an advertisement, the quality of the leads generated is very high, and advertisers are prepared to pay【 C4】 _The price
13、per click varies from $0. 10 to as much as $ 30, depending on the keyword, though the average is around $0.50. Google made most of its $6. 1 billion in revenue last year from pay-per-click advertising. But as pay-per-click advertising has grown into a huge industry, concern has【 C5】_over so-called “
14、 click fraud“ bogus(假的 )clicks that do not come from genuinely interested customers. It takes two main forms. If you click repeatedly on the advertisements on your own website, or get other people or machines to do so on your behalf, you can generate a stream of bogus【 C6】 _Click fraud can also be u
15、sed by one company against another; clicking on a rival firms advertisements can【 C7】_it with a huge bill. Bogus clicks are thought to account for around 10% of all click traffic, though nobody knows for sure. A few months ago Mr. Gross【 C8】 _an alternative to the pay-per-click model. In February, S
16、nap, a search engine backed by Mr. Gross, launched “pay-per-action“(PPA), a new model in which advertisers pay only if a click on an ad is followed by an action such as a purchase or a download. Google is testing a【 C9】 _model and Turn, com, another ad network, adopted the pay-per-action model a few
17、 weeks ago. Might this put an end to click fraud? Dont bet on it, says Mike Zeman at Starcom, an advertising agency. Pay-per-action will be a niche, he predicts, since converting a click into an action depends on a variety of factors such as the ease of use of the advertisers website. Google and its
18、 peers will be【 C10】 _to be so dependent on factors outside their control. But Mr. Tobaccowala thinks pay-per-action could become a real alternative to pay-per-click. A)benefits I)flourishing B)commissions J)saddle C)extravagant K)inclination D)similar L)mounted E)inaccessibly M)pioneered F)revenue
19、N)accordingly G)reluctant O)harmonious H)mobilize 11 【 C1】 12 【 C2】 13 【 C3】 14 【 C4】 15 【 C5】 16 【 C6】 17 【 C7】 18 【 C8】 19 【 C9】 20 【 C10】 Section C 20 The evidence has gotten much stronger that a substance known as C-reactive protein may be every bit as important as cholesterol(胆固醇 )in the diagno
20、sis and treatment of heart disease. Back in 2002, a thought-provoking study found that a blood test for C-reactive protein, called CRP, was actually better than the standard cholesterol test at predicting the risk of a heart attack or a stroke. Now two studies published in The New England Journal of
21、 Medicine have shown that drugs that reduce the levels of that protein in patients with severe heart disease can slow the progression of atherosclerosis(动脉硬化症 )and prevent heart attacks and cardiac-related deaths. Although the studies came laced with caveats, their cumulative impact suggests that ca
22、rdiology is in the midst of a revolutionary shift in understanding the causes of heart disease. After years of focusing on the role of cholesterol in clogging arteries, researchers now recognize C-reactive protein, a measure of inflammation(炎症 )in artery walls and elsewhere, as a prime risk factor i
23、n its own right. The key study published last week found that heart disease patients who were given high doses of a cholesterol lowering statin drug also experienced a drop in CRP levels and in heart attacks. Thus the high dose statin packed a double wallop. These findings apply only to patients alr
24、eady suffering from severe heart disease. A separate clinical trial will seek to determine whether lowering C-reactive protein can reduce heart attacks in healthy patients with normal cholesterol levels but above-average levels of C-reactive protein. Nearly half of all people who suffer heart attack
25、s have normal cholesterol levels, so it is critical to devise tests and treatments to reduce their risk. Even before the final clinical results are in, it would seem prudent for all overweight couch potatoes who think they are safe because their cholesterol levels are low to get their C-reactive pro
26、tein levels tested. If their CRP levels are high, they may be spurred to lose weight, exercise and stop smoking to bring down those protein levels. High doses of statins, with their risk of side effects, would presumably be a last resort. 21 The passage focuses on_. （ A） new findings about heart dis
27、ease （ B） causes of heart disease （ C） treatment of heart disease （ D） problems heart disease faces 22 Drugs that decrease CRP levels can_. （ A） cure people with heart disease （ B） control heart disease （ C） help people with severe heart disease to prevent heart attacks （ D） decease the cardiac-rela
28、ted deaths 23 The cause of heart disease used to be_. （ A） cholesterol （ B） fatness （ C） C-reactive protein （ D） inborn 24 The author tells us that_. （ A） C-reactive protein is not as important as cholesterol （ B） C-reactive protein as a cause of heart disease is still unclear to researchers （ C） pe
29、ople had better test C-reactive protein in spite of their low cholesterol level （ D） it would be safe for people whose cholesterol levels are normal 25 In the last paragraph, “a last resort“ means_. （ A） a final scenic spot （ B） a newest scenic spot （ C） a final way （ D） a newest way 25 Two new gest
30、ure-sensing innovations designed for large electronic screens in public places herald(预告 )a future in which everything from street art to advertisements track your movements, are fully interactive, and almost impossible to ignore. Giant flat-screen displays powered by organic LEDs(OLEDs)are plunging
31、 in price, so screens tens of meters long could soon line urban corridors. Rather than have them simply fire messages at a tuned-out public, researchers at the Technical University of Berlin(TUB)in Germany have built two applications that they hope will attract passers-by and inspire a new wave of i
32、nteractive displays. “We believe that in the future all surfaces in urban areas could be interactive displays,“ says team member Robert Walter. “ This presents great opportunities and challenges as it will need to be attractive and work in an intelligent way. “ The researchers will reveal their firs
33、t two street-smart applications StrikeAPose and Screenfinity next month in Paris, France. They believe that while advertising could provide the impetus(推动 )for the adoption of the technology, non-commercial apps will also appear courtesy of artists or poets, perhaps. StrikeAPose, developed by Walter
34、s team, lets a person in the street perform a unique gesture to take control of anything from a bus-shelter advertisement screen to a large, Times-Square-style video wall. Once you are registered as the screen controller, software fed by the depth cameras used in Microsofts Kinect system lets you co
35、ntrol, say, a gesture-driven game. In trials in a university cafeteria, the team settled on a registration gesture they call The Teapot; users put their hands on both hips, their arms describing the profile of two teapot handles. This was the most robust gesture, even when obfuscated(使模糊 )by thick c
36、lothing. Screenfinity, led by Jorg Muller, generates content for large, long screens that follows the viewer as they walk along beside it. The system monitors passers-by with 10 Kinect cameras placed along the length of a screen. As a person approaches, text or pictures pop up and slide along in syn
37、c(同步 )with their walking. If someone moves further away, the text gets bigger; closer, and it gets smaller, so it is equally legible all the time. In a recent trial on the TUB campus, cafe menus were displayed in a bustling square. Not only were people able to read the menus at varying distances and
38、 without breaking stride, the display proved so attention-grabbing that it had users looking behind the screen to see if a person was tracking them. Simon Parnall of News Digital Systems in Staines, UK, is developing floor-to-ceiling TV screens. StrikeAPose is user-friendly, he notes, since people o
39、nly need simple gestures to interact with it. But he wonders how many people will want to “ perform a potentially embarrassing gesture in a public space in order to interact“. He foresees organizations like the London Underground making strong use of Screenfinity, however, as it will allow ads to mo
40、ve down the escalators, tethered(用绳子拴住 )to specific commuters. 26 What is TRUE about the new gesture-sensing innovations? （ A） They enable large electronic screens in public places to interact with people. （ B） They make it possible for people to track everything in public places. （ C） They can full
41、y interact with everything from street art to advertisements. （ D） They make it possible for people to interact with each other. 27 What does the author mean by saying “a tuned-out public“(Line 3, Para. 2)? （ A） People remain silent in public places. （ B） People are indifferent to messages sent to t
42、hem. （ C） People are inactive in front of the advertisement. （ D） People feel relaxed to accept information. 28 By citing the example of the gesture The Teapot, the author wants to_. （ A） show that a person can control the device by performing a unique gesture （ B） test the two new gesture-sensing i
43、nnovations （ C） show that the gesture is very effective （ D） show that people are capable of making various unique gestures 29 Which of the following best describes the way Screenfinity works? （ A） It changes its size at varying distances. （ B） It uses cameras to track peoples gestures. （ C） It move
44、s together with passers-by. （ D） It allows information to move along with viewers. 30 Simon Parnall thinks that Screenfinity is most beneficial to_ （ A） News Digital Systems. （ B） students in Technical University of Berlin. （ C） London Underground. （ D） any individual willing to use it. 大学英语六级改革适用（阅
45、读）模拟试卷 115答案与解析 Section A 【知识模块】 选词填空 1 【正确答案】 J 【试题解析】 结合上文的 From the sending out of things the Greeks， earn only$285 million可知，本句中的 $375 million是希腊政府从旅游、运输和外汇等获得的额外收入，备选形容词中只有 additional“另外的，额外的 ”与句意吻合，故 J)为答案。 【知识模块】 选词填空 2 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 下文提到的 gold and foreign exchange“黄金和外汇 ”通常是一个国家的储备金，故 A)re
46、serve“储备金 ”为答案。 【知识模块】 选词填空 3 【正确答案】 F 【试题解析】 本句句意：希腊政府不需要依靠 _政党之间的合作来取得议会的多数席位。要取得议会的多数席位，通常要依靠互相排斥的政党之间的合作，incompatible“互相排斥的，不相 容的 ”符合句意，故 F)为答案。 【知识模块】 选词填空 4 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 结合句意：我并无意通过总结这些令人兴奋的数字来 _希腊所面临问题的严重性。 minimize“淡化 “与句意相吻合，故 C)为答案。 【知识模块】 选词填空 5 【正确答案】 L 【试题解析】 结合上文的 It is the poorest
47、country by a wide margin in FreeEurope， and poverty is widespread可知，希腊政府是 自由欧洲中最贫穷的国家，与其他国家差距很大，到处都很贫穷。由此可推知，其失业现象应该很严重，被选动词中 plagues“使痛苦，造成麻烦 ”与句意相吻合，故 L)为答案。 【知识模块】 选词填空 6 【正确答案】 H 【试题解析】 由下文提及的 the Greek governments red tape and shrewdnessabout small points可知，希腊政府那种繁琐而又拖沓的公务程序和对小事的精明使外国的投资尝试都陷入困境
48、。被选动词中的 bogged与空格后的down搭配， 意为 “陷入困境，停滞不前 ”，符合句意，故 H)为答案。 【知识模块】 选词填空 7 【正确答案】 D 【试题解析】 结合下文的 As far back as 1956， expanding tourism seemed alogical way to bring needed foreign currencies and additional jobs to Greece可知，希腊政府取得了进步， strides“(快速的 )进展，进步，发展 ”符合句意，故 D)为答案。 【知识模块】 选词填空 8 【正确答案】 O 【试题解析】 由下
49、文的 almost total differences of opinion and outlook“意见和观点完全不同 ”可推知，本句意为：他们绝望地陷入了僵局之中，搭配 be deadlocked in意为 “陷入僵局 ”，故 O)deadlocked为答案。 【知识模块】 选词填空 9 【正确答案】 G 【试题解析】 空格后的数字 $31 million可以用 approximately“大约 ”修饰，本句句意为：希腊仅旅游收入就由大约 3100万美元增至 9000万美元，故 G)为答案。 【知识模块】 选词填空 10 【正确答案】 N 【试题解析】 句意为：喷气式飞机的出现使雅典和巴黎、罗马一样很容易_。备选形容词中的 accessible“易到达的，易进入的 ”符合句意，故 N)为答案。 【知识模块】 选词填空 【知识模块】 选词填空 11 【正确答案】 F 【试题解析】 由空格前的 $9 6 billion in和空格
