1、大学英语六级模拟试卷 407及答案与解析 一、 Part I Writing (30 minutes) 1 Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on the topic Students Union and Associations. You should write at least 150 words following the outline given below in Chinese: 1. 简述在大学里学生会和各种社团的现状 2参加学生会和各种社团对个人的有利之处
2、3你对参加学生会和社团活动的态度 二、 Part II Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) (15 minutes) Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions attached to the passage. For questions 1-4, mark： Y (for YES) if the statement agrees with the information
3、 given in the passage; N (for NO) if the statement contradicts the information given in the passage; NG (for NOT GIVEN) if the information is not given in the passage. 1 April Fools Special: Historys Hoaxes Happy April Fools Day. To mark the occasion, National Geographic News has compiled a list of
4、some of the more memorable hoaxes in recent history. They are the lies, darned(可恨的 ) lies, and whoppers(弥天大谎 ) that have been perpetrated on the gullible(易受骗的 ) and unsuspecting to fulfill that age-old desire held by some to put the joke on others. Internet Hoaxes The Internet has given birth to a p
5、roliferation(增填 ) of hoaxes. E-mail inboxes are bombarded on an almost daily basis with messages warning of terrible computer viruses that cause users to delete benign(良性 ) chunks of data from their hard drives, or of credit card seams that entice the naive to give all their personal information, in
6、cluding passwords and bank account details, to identity thieves. Other e-malls give rise to wry(歪曲的 ) chuckles, which is where this list begins. Ban Dihydrogen Monoxide (一氧化二氢 ) City officials in Aliso Viejo, California, were so concerned about die dangers of dihydrogen monoxide that they scheduled
7、a vote last month on whether to ban foam(泡沫 ) cups from city-sponsored events after they learned the chemical was used in foam-cup production. Officials called off the vote after learning that dihydrogen monoxide is the scientific term for water. “Its embarrassing,“ city manager David J. Norman told
8、 the Associated Press. “We had a paralegal(律师助手 ) who did bad research.“ Indeed, the paralegal had fallen victim to an official-looking Web site touting the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide. An email originally authored in 1990 by Eric Lechner, then a graduate student at the University of California,
9、Santa Cruz, claimed that dihydrogen monoxide “is used as an industrial solvent and coolant, and is used in the production of Styrofoam(聚苯乙烯泡沫塑料 ).“ Other dangers pranksters (爱开玩笑的人 ) associated with the chemical included accelerated corrosion and rusting, severe burns, and death from inhalation. Ver
10、sions of die e-mail continue to circulate today, and several Web sites, including that of the Coalition to Ban DHMO, warn, tongue-in-cheek, of waters dangers. Alabama Changes Value of Pi The April 1998 newsletter put out by New Mexicans for Science and Reason contains an article titled “Alabama Legi
11、slature Lays Siege to Pi“. It was penned by April Holiday of the Associmated Press (sic) and told the story of how the Alabama state legislature voted to change the value of the mathematical constant Pi from 3.14159 to the round number of 3. The ersatz(假的 ) news stow was written by Los Alamos Nation
12、al Laboratory physicist Mark Boslough to parody(滑稽地模仿 ) legislative and school board attacks on the teaching of evolution in New Mexico. At Bosloughs suggestion, Dave Thomas, the president of New Mexicans for Science and Reason, posted the article in its entirety to the Internet newsgroup Talk. Orig
13、ins on April 1. (The newsgroup hosts a lively debate on creation vs. evolution.) Later that evening Thomas posted a full confession to the hoax. He thought he had put all rumors to bed. But to Thomass surprise, however, several newsgroup readers forwarded the article to friends and posted it on othe
14、r newsgroups. When Thomas checked in on the story a few weeks later, he was surprised to learn that it had spread like wildfire. The telltale signs of the articles satirical intent, such as the April 1 date and misspelled “Associmated Press“ dateline, had been replaced or deleted. Alabama legislator
15、s were bombarded with calls protesting the law. The legislators explained that the news was a hoax. There was not and never had been such a law. TV and Newspaper Hoaxes Before the advent of the Internet, and even today, traditional media outlets such as newspapers, radio, and television, have someti
16、mes hoaxed their audiences. The deceptions run the gamut from purported natural disasters to wishful news. Swiss Spaghetti (意大利式细面条 ) Harvest Alex Boese, curator of the Museum of Hoaxes, a regularly updated Web site that also appeared in book form in November 2002, said one of his favorite hoaxes re
17、mains one perpetrated by the British Broadcasting Company: On April 1, 1957, the BBC aired a report on the television news show Panorama about the bumper spaghetti harvest in southern Switzerland. Viewers watched Swiss farmers pull pasta off spaghetti trees as the shows anchor, Richard Dimbleby, att
18、ributed the bountiful harvest to the mild winter and the disappearance of the spaghetti weevil. The broadcaster detailed the ins and outs of the life of the spaghetti farmer and anticipated questions about how spaghetti grows on trees. Thousands of people believed the report and called the BBC to in
19、quire about growing their own spaghetti trees, to which the BBC replied, “Place a sprig of spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce and hope for the best.“ “It was a great satirical effect about British society,“ Boese said. “British society really was like that at that time. The British have a tendency t
20、o be a bit insulated( 绝缘的 ) and do not know that much about the rest of Europe.“ Taco Liberty Bell On April 1, 1996, readers in five major U.S. cities opened their newspapers to learn from a full page announcement that the Taco Bell Corporation had purchased the Liberty Bell from the U.S. government
21、. The announcement reported that the company was relocating the historic bell from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Irvine, California. The move, the corporation said in the advertisement, was part of an “effort to help the national debt“. Hundreds of other newspapers and television shows ran stories
22、related to the press release on the matter put out by Taco Bells public relations firm, PainePR. Outraged citizens called the Liberty Bell National Historic Park in Philadelphia to express their disgust, A few hours later the public relations firm released another press announcement stating that the
23、 stunt was a hoax. White House press secretary Mike McCurry got in-to the act when he remarked that the government would also be “selling the Lincoln Memorial to Ford Motor Company and renaming it the Lincoln-Mercury Memorial“. Crop Circles Strange, circular formations began to appear in the fields
24、of southern England in the mid-1970s, bringing busloads of curious onlookers, media representatives, and believers in the paranormal out to the countryside for a look. A sometimes vitriolic (讽刺的 ) debate on their origins has since ensued(跟着发生 ), and the curious formations have spread around the worl
25、d, becoming more and more elaborate as the years go by. Some people consider the crop formations to be the greatest works of modern art to emerge from the 20th century, while others are convinced they are signs of extraterrestrial communications or landing sites of UFOs. The debate rages even today,
26、 although in 1991 Doug Bower and Dave Chorley, two elderly men from Wiltshire County, came forward and claimed responsibility for the crop circles that appeared there over the preceding 20 years. The pair made the circles by pushing down nearly ripe crops with a wooden plank suspended from a rope. M
27、oon Landing-a Hoax? Ever since NASA sent astronauts to the moon between 1969 and 1972, skeptics have questioned whether the Apollo missions were real or simply a ploy to one-up (领先 ) the Soviet Union during the Cold War. The debate resurfaced and reached crescendo levels in February 2001, when Fox t
28、elevision aired a program called Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon? Guests on the show argued that NASA did not have the technology to land on the moon. Anxious to win the space race, NASA acted out the Apollo program in movie studios, they said. The conspiracy theorists pointed out that th
29、e pictures transmitted from the moon do not include stars and that the flag the Americans planted on the moon is waving, even though there is thought to be no breeze on the moon. NASA quickly refuted these claims in a series of press releases, stating that any photographer would know it is difficult
30、 to capture something very bright and very dim on the same piece of film. Since the photographers wanted to capture the astronauts striding across the lunar surface in their sunlit space suits, the background stars were too faint to see. As for the flag, NASA said that the astronauts were turning it
31、 back and forth to get in firmly planted in the lunar soil, which made it wave. 2 Some people have the age-old desire to put the joke on others. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 3 According to the passage, the only form of Internet hoaxes is e-mail hoax. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 4 Dihydrogen monoxide is a very da
32、ngerous chemical, which is often used as an industrial solvent. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 5 Dihydrogen monoxide can accelerate corrosion and rusting, and cause sever burns and even death from inhalation. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 6 The reason why the ersatz news that Alabama changed the value of Pi spread w
33、ildly was that _ forwarded the article to friends and posted it on other newsgroups. 7 Traditional media outlets such as _ may still hoax their audiences nowadays. 8 According to Boese, many people believed the report of Swiss spaghetti harvest because the British did not know _. 9 According to a ho
34、ax announcement, the Taco Bell Corporation bought the Liberty Bell and moved it to Irvine to help _. 10 The crop circles were thought to be the greatest works of modem art, the signs of _ or landing sites of UFOs. 11 Some people thought that NASA acted out the Apollo program in movie studios partial
35、ly because the pictures transmitted from the moon do not include _. Section A Directions: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At the end of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions w
36、ill be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A, B, C and D, and decide which is the best answer. （ A） Husband mad wife. （ B） Doctor and nurse. （ C） Sales clerk and customer. （ D） Airline agent and customer. （ A） Hes a sec
37、retary. （ B） Hes a novelist. （ C） Hes a newspaperman. （ D） Hes a worker. （ A） On a mountain path. （ B） In a supermarket. （ C） On a mad. （ D） In a railway, station. （ A） Monday morning （ B） Monday afternoon. （ C） Wednesday morning. （ D） Friday afternoon. （ A） To encourage them. （ B） To stop them imme
38、diately. （ C） To give some explanation. （ D） To leave them alone. （ A） She has bad study habits. （ B） She sleeps too much. （ C） She wakes up late. （ D） Shes an excellent student （ A） 4 hours. （ B） 6 hours. （ C） 12 hours. （ D） 18 hours. （ A） How primitive people used flags. （ B） What the ancient mean
39、s of communication was. （ C） Why the torch towers were built. （ D） How the Great Wall came into being. （ A） Raising money. （ B） Gathering support from others. （ C） Giving speeches. （ D） Choosing the official candidate for each political party. （ A） Interviews. （ B） Television ads. （ C） Playing with
40、children. （ D） Speeches. （ A） There are Several small parties in the U.S. （ B） There are only two parties in the U.S. （ C） The most powerful party in the U.S. is the Democrats. （ D） The most powerful party in the U.S. is the Republicans. （ A） Leisure sporting activities. （ B） Average age of athletes
41、. （ C） Durability of sporting equipment. （ D） Peoples preference for sporting activities. （ A） Jogging. （ B） Tennis. （ C） Cycling. （ D） Swimming. （ A） Target the 18 to 26 year-old age group. （ B） Sell tennis rackets. （ C） Carry more athletic shoes. （ D） Work out a more appealing slogan. （ A） They ha
42、ve more buying power. （ B） They have enough time to exercise. （ C） They tend to enjoy sports more. （ D） They are very health conscious. Section B Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions
43、will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D. （ A） Many students try to study the whole night before an exam. （ B） Sleep may improve memory. （ C） Exams may harm memory. （ D） Sleep can improve listening ability. （ A） S
44、leep can strengthen memories. （ B） Sleep can recover memories. （ C） Sleep can protect memories against interference. （ D） Sleep can harm memories. （ A） Its similar to playing notes on a piano. （ B） It requires a nights sleep. （ C） Its similar to the way a computer stores information. （ D） It requite
45、s no sleep. （ A） Two. （ B） Three. （ C） Four. （ D） Five. （ A） Business success takes a high level of activity. （ B） Top managers are generally gifted at judging people. （ C） Business success takes the ability to cope with stress. （ D） Different executives make their communications come through in dif
46、ferent ways. （ A） Be unable to breathe, （ B） Be overcome by pressure. （ C） Become speechless. （ D） Be scared by pressure. （ A） Almost one million. （ B） About 600 thousand. （ C） Nearly 400 thousand. （ D） Approximately 200 thousand. （ A） Residential area. （ B） Shopping centers. （ C） Parking lots. （ D）
47、 Shopping centers or parking lots near stadiums or gymnasiums （ A） They have to break into the car. （ B） Five percent of the cars are left unlocked. （ C） They sometimes find car keys in the ignition and simply get in. （ D） They knock out the driver and get the car away. （ A） Young people who want to
48、 ride a car for joy. （ B） Professionals who steal cars for other crimes. （ C） People who lack money to buy a car. （ D） Both A and B. Section C Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general id
49、ea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from 36 to 43 with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks numbered from 44 to 46 you are required to fill in the missing information. For these blanks, you can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the 36 Now we travel to the north central part of the United States. We are in the state of South Dakota. The land is big and mostly flat with many【 B1】 _ of corn, whe
