1、大学英语六级模拟试卷 433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 short essay entitled My View on Postgraduate Craze. You should write at least 150 words following the outline given below: 1. 目前考古正形 成热潮 2. 分析这股热潮产生的原因 3. 你的看法 My View on Postgradua
2、te Craze 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 given i
3、n 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 Part Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and a
4、nswer the questions on Answer Sheet 1. For questions 1-7, choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). For questions 8-10, complete the sentences with the information given in the passage. Whos Afraid of Google? Rarely if ever has a company risen so fast in so many ways as
5、Google, the worlds most popular search engine. This is true by just about any measure: the growth in its market value and revenues; the number of people clicking in search of news, the nearest pizza parlor or a satellite image of their neighbors garden; the volume of its advertisers; or the number o
6、f its lawyers and lobbyists. Such an ascent is enough to evoke concerns - both paranoid(偏执的 ) and justified. The list of constituencies that hate or fear Google grows by the week. Television networks, book publishers and newspaper owners feel that Google has grown by using their content without payi
7、ng for it. Telecoms firms such as Americas AT and it is about to bid against them in a forthcoming auction for radio spectrum. Many small firms hate Google because they relied on exploiting its search formulas to win prime positions in its rankings, but dropped to the Internets equivalent of Hades a
8、fter Google modified these algorithms(运算法则 ). And now come the politicians. Libertarians dislike Googles deal with Chinas censors. Conservatives moan about its uncensored videos. But the big new fear is to do with the privacy of its users. Googles business model assumes that people will entrust it w
9、ith ever more information about their lives, to be stored in the companys “cloud“ of remote computers. Some users now keep their photos, blogs, videos, calendars, e-mail, news feeds, maps, contacts, social networks, documents, spreadsheets (电子数据表 ), presentations, and credit-card information - in sh
10、ort, much of their lives - on Googles computers. But the privacy problem is much subtler than that. As Google compiles more information about individuals, it faces numerous trade-offs. At one extreme it could use a persons search history and advertising responses in combination with, say, his locati
11、on and the itinerary in his calendar, to serve increasingly useful and welcome search results and ads. This would also allow Google to make money from its many new services. But it could scare users away. As a warning, Privacy International, a human-rights organization in London, has berated Google,
12、 charging that its attitude to privacy “at its most blatant is hostile, and at its most benign is ambivalent“. And Google could soon, if it wanted, compile files on specific individuals. This presents “perhaps the most difficult privacy issues in all of human history,“ says Edward Felten, a privacy
13、expert at Princeton University. Speaking for many, John Battelle, the author of a book on Google and an early admirer, recently wrote on his blog that “Ive found myself more and more wary“ of Google “out of some primal, lizard-brain fear of giving too much control of my data to one source.“ More JP
14、Morgan than Bill Gates Google is often compared to Microsoft; but its evolution is actually closer to that of the banking industry. Just as financial institutions grew to become repositories of peoples money, and thus guardians of private information about their finances, Google is now turning into
15、a supervisor of a far wider and more intimate range of information about individuals. Yes, this applies also to rivals such as Yahoo! and Microsoft. But Google, through the sheer speed with which it accumulates the treasure of information, will be the one to test the limits of what society can toler
16、ate. It does not help that Google is often seen as arrogant. Granted, this complaint often comes from sourgrapes rivals. But many others are put off by Googles assertion of its own holiness, as if it merited unquestioning trust. This after all is the firm that chose “Dont be evil“ as its corporate m
17、otto and that explicitly intones that its goal is “not to make money“, as its boss, Eric Schmidt, puts it, but “to change the world“. Its ownership structure is set up to protect that vision. Ironically, there is something rather cloudlike about the multiple complaints surrounding Google. The issues
18、 are best parted into two cumuli: a set of “public“ arguments about how to regulate Google; and a set of “private“ ones for Googles managers, to do with the strategy the firm needs to get through the coming storm. On both counts, Google - contrary to its own propaganda - is much better judged as bei
19、ng just like any other “evil“ money-grabbing company. Grab the money That is because, from the public point of view, the main contribution of all companies to society comes from making profits, not giving things away. Google is a good example of this. Its “goodness“ stems less from all that guff abo
20、ut corporate altruism than from Adam Smiths invisible hand. It provides a service that others find very useful - namely helping people to find information (at no charge) and letting advertisers promote their wares to those people in a finely targeted way. Given this, the onus of proof is with Google
21、s would-be prosecutors to prove it is doing something wrong. On antitrust, the price that Google charges its advertisers is set by auction, so its monopolistic clout is limited; and it has yet to use its“ dominance in one market to muscle into others in the way Microsoft did. The same presumption of
22、 innocence goes for copyright and privacy. Googles book-search product, for instance, arguably helps rather than hurts publishers and authors by rescuing books from obscurity and encouraging readers to buy copyrighted works. And, despite Big Brotherish talk about knowing what choices people will be
23、making tomorrow, Google has not betrayed the trust of its users over their privacy. If anything, it has been better than its rivals in standing up to prying governments in both America and China. That said, conflicts of interest will become inevitable - especially with privacy. Google in effect cont
24、rols a dial that, as it sells ever more services to you, could move in two directions. Set to one side, Google could voluntarily destroy very quickly any user data that it collects. That would assure privacy, but it would limit Googles profits from selling to advertisers information about what you a
25、re doing, and make those services less useful, ff the dial is set to the other side and Google hangs on to the information, the services will be more useful, but some dreadful intrusions into privacy could occur. The answer, as with banks in the past, must lie somewhere in the middle in that the rig
26、ht point for the dial is likely to change, as circumstances change. That will be the main public interest in Google. But, as the bankers (and Bill Gates) can attest, public scrutiny also creates a private challenge for Googles managers: how should they present their case? One obvious strategy is to
27、allay concerns over Googles trustworthiness by becoming more transparent and opening up more of its processes and plans to scrutiny. But it also needs a deeper change of heart. Pretending that just because your founders are nice young men and you give away lots of services, society has no right to q
28、uestion your motives no longer seems sensible. Google is a capitalist tool - and a useful one. Better, surely, to face the coming storm on that foundation, than on a stale slogan that could be your undoing. = 2 After Google modified the algorithms, many small firms that adopted its search formulas _
29、. （ A） entered a desperate future （ B） transferred a different attitude on Google （ C） dropped to the competition of Internet （ D） obtained predominance in the rankings 3 According to Privacy International in London, which word can describe Googles attitude to privacy exactly? （ A） Confusing. （ B） A
30、dorable. （ C） Hypocritical. （ D） Indifferent. 4 The author of a book on Google and an early admirer John Battelle thinks that _. （ A） he becomes more wary due to Google （ B） Google makes many users uneasy （ C） he persists in supporting Google （ D） Google controls one source 5 The rivals Yahoo! and M
31、icrosoft are corresponding to _. （ A） Google and Microsoft （ B） Google and banks （ C） Microsoft and banks （ D） repositories and guardians 6 Googles assertion of its own holiness _. （ A） brings about sourgrapes rivals scorn （ B） is able to receive unquestioning trust （ C） makes many firms disgusted （
32、 D） attracts the support of many firms except sourgrapes rivals 7 What do the two sets of “public“ and “private“ arguments show? （ A） Google is the same as any other company aiming at money. （ B） Googles propaganda is different from any other company. （ C） Google excels any other “evil“ company in g
33、rabbing money. （ D） Google is regarded as an evil company. 8 What largely gives rise to Googles “goodness“? （ A） Adam Smiths economic theories. （ B） Google aims at benefiting the society. （ C） A useful service Google provides. （ D） Google makes profits for itself. 9 Google can overwhelmingly enter o
34、ther markets like Microsoft by means of its _. 10 If Google assures privacy by destroying user data, this would negatively influence its _. 11 If more of Googles processes and plans are inspected preciously, this can enhance its _. Section A Directions: In this section, you will hear 8 short convers
35、ations 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 will 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
36、D, and decide which is the best answer. （ A） She doesnt know when they will go. （ B） She believes there is a road detour. （ C） She wont be ready at 8 oclock. （ D） She wants the man to go away. （ A） Eating in a cafeteria. （ B） Buying something in a store. （ C） Talking on the telephone. （ D） Getting m
37、oney at a bank. （ A） Hell go if the woman goes too. （ B） He doubts hell be able to go. （ C） Hes too tired to go. （ D） Hes eager to go. （ A） Run in town. （ B） Look more carefully. （ C） Buy shoes from a catalog. （ D） Find an easier place to exercise. （ A） In a doctors office. （ B） In an operating room
38、. （ C） In a professors office. （ D） In a gymnasium. （ A） Hed rather not go to the lecture. （ B） He doesnt mind if the woman goes to the lecture. （ C） He wants to hear the lecture. （ D） Hes heard the lecture before. （ A） There will be a lot of rain. （ B） Rain is very unlikely. （ C） Its already rainin
39、g. （ D） Shes not sure. （ A） Joe bought Freds car. （ B） The man is joking. （ C） Freds car is not good. （ D） The man wants Jacks car. （ A） The comparison in costs of living between different countries. （ B） The advantages and disadvantages of working in different places. （ C） Where to spend their fort
40、hcoming holidays. （ D） Which university their eldest son should attend. （ A） Hamburg. （ B） Frankfurt. （ C） Munich. （ D） Berlin. （ A） It is the highest. （ B） It is the lowest. （ C） It comes in between the other two jobs. （ D） No such comparison is made in the conversation. （ A） The latest development
41、s of an armed rebellion in Karnak. （ B） The fall of Karnaks capital city into the hands of the rebel forces. （ C） The epidemic that has just broken out in the country of Karnak. （ D） The peace talks between the rebels and the government in Karnak. （ A） The epidemic has been brought under control. （
42、B） There are signs of progress in the peace process. （ C） Great improvements are being made in its capital. （ D） Theres little hope of bringing the conflict to an end. （ A） Late in the morning. （ B） Early in the afternoon. （ C） Sometime before dawn. （ D） Shortly after sunrise. （ A） Inadequate medica
43、l care. （ B） Continuing social unrest. （ C） Lack of food, water and shelter. （ D） Rapid spreading of the epidemic. 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 will be spoken only o
44、nce. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D. （ A） Because they need more protein than vegetables can supply. （ B） Because they cannot digest vegetables. （ C） Because they use more energy than adults. （ D） Because they cannot easily diges
45、t milk and milk products. （ A） It preserves the vitamins. （ B） It breaks down the vitamins. （ C） It makes the meat easier to digest. （ D） It reduces the protein content. （ A） We should cat more meat than vegetables. （ B） We should cat more vegetables than meat. （ C） We should cat different kinds of
46、vegetables. （ D） We should cat fruit, cereals, fish, meat and vegetables. （ A） The changes of life styles have no influence on business. （ B） Different people may have completely different life styles. （ C） Its doubtful what life styles are changing. （ D） Life styles of different people are the same
47、. （ A） Forty hours. （ B） Less than forty hours. （ C） About seventy hours. （ D） Less than twenty-five hours. （ A） Changes in Life style have a strong influence on business. （ B） Baby goods make money easily. （ C） Business men are only interested in babies. （ D） Business should always be ready to meet
48、 the babies needs. （ A） Introduce Alvin Tofflers best seller Future Shock. （ B） Discuss the throwaway problem in America. （ C） Analyze the relationship between men and things. （ D） Describe the throwaway products made in USA. （ A） Bibs. （ B） Cardboard milk containers. （ C） Spaceships. （ D） Rockets.
49、（ A） Poor quality leads to the short-term use of products. （ B） People do not like one-time use products. （ C） Products tend to be disposable. （ D） People refuse to use returnable objects. （ A） Throwaway products are widely used because they are produced. （ B） Using throwaway products is too wasteful. （ C） Throwaway products play an important role in American society. （ D） Throwaway objects should be stopped. Section C Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage thr
