1、大学英语六级模拟试卷 453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 How Do College Students Spend Their Holiday. You should write at least 150 words based on the chart and outline given below. A: staying at home C: doing social
2、investigationB: traveling D: other ways上述两图分别是对 1999年和 2008年大学生度假方式的调查统计。请按如下要求对两图进行对比： 1 10年来大学生度假方式的变化 2产生这些变化的原因 3预想今后大学生度假方式变化的趋势 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
3、 questions attached to the passage. For questions 1-4, mark： Y (for YES) if the statement agrees with the information 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 Social Networ
4、king A large but long-in-the-tooth technology company hoping to become a bigger force in online advertising buys a small start-up in a sector that everybody agrees is the next big thing. A decade ago, this was Microsoft buying Hotmail-the firm that established web-based e-mail as a must-have service
5、 for internet users, and promised to drive up page views, and thus advertising inventory, on the software giants websites. This month it was AOL, a struggling web portal (入口网站 ) that is part of Time Warner, an old-media giant, buying Bebo, a small but up-and-coming online social network, for $ 850m.
6、 Both deals, in their respective decades, illustrate a great paradox of the internet in that the premise underlying them is precisely half right and half wrong. The correct half is that a next big thing-web-mall then, social networking now-can indeed quickly become something that consumers expect fr
7、om their favorite web portal. The non sequitur(推论，结论 ) is to assume that the new service will be a revenue-generating business in its own right. Web-mall has certainly not become a business. Admittedly, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, AOL and other providers of web-mall accounts do place advertisements o
8、n their web-mail offerings, but this is small beer. They offer e-mail-and volumes of free archival (档案的 ) storage unimaginable a decade ago-because the service, including its associated address book, calendar, and other features, is cheap to deliver and keeps consumers engaged with their brands and
9、websites, making users more likely to visit affiliated pages where advertising is more effective. Social networking appears to be similar in this regard. The big internet and media companies have bid up the implicit valuations of MySpace, Facebook and others. But that does not mean there is a workin
10、g revenue model. Sergey Brin, Googles co-founder, recently admitted that Googles “social networking inventory as a whole“ was proving problematic and that the “monetization work we were doing there didnt pan out as well as we had hoped“. Google has a contractual agreement with News Corp to place adv
11、ertisements on its network, MySpace, and also owns its own network, Orkut. Clearly, Google is not making money from either. Facebook, now allied to Microsoft, has fared worse. Its grand attempt to redefine the advertising industry by pioneering a new approach to social marketing, called Beacon, fail
12、ed completely. Facebooks idea was to inform a users friends whenever he bought something at certain online retailers, by running a small announcement inside the friends “news feeds“. In theory, this was to become a new recommendation economy, an algorithmic (算术的 ) form of word of mouth. In practice,
13、 users rebelled and privacy watchdogs cried foul. Mark Zuckerberg, Facebooks founder, admitted in December that “we simply did a bad job with this release“ and apologized. So it is entirely conceivable that social networking, like web-mail, will never make oodles of money. That, however, in no way d
14、etracts from its enormous utility. Social networking has made explicit the connections between people, so that a thriving ecosystem of small programs can exploit this “social graph“ to enable friends to interact via games, greetings, video clips and so on. But should users really have to visit a spe
15、cific website to do this sort of thing? “We will look back to 2008 and think that we had to go to a destination like Facebook or LinkedIn to be social,“ says Charlene IA at Forrester Research, a consultancy. Future social networks, she thinks, “will be anywhere and everywhere we need and want them t
16、o be“. No more logging on to Facebook just to see the “news feed“ of updates from your friends; instead it will come straight to your e-mail inbox, RSS reader or instant messenger. No need to upload photos to Facebook to show them to friends, since those with privacy permissions in your electronic a
17、ddress book can automatically get them. The problem with todays social networks is that they are often closed to the outside web. The big networks have decided to be “open toward independent programmers, to encourage them to write fun new software for them. But they are reluctant to become equally o
18、pen towards their users, because the networks lofty valuations depend on maximizing their page views-so they maintain a tight grip on their users information, to ensure that they keep coming back. As a result, avid internet users often maintain separate accounts on several social networks, instant-m
19、essaging services, photo-sharing and blogging sites, and usually cannot even send simple messages from one to the other. They must invite the same friends to each service separately. It is a drag. Historically, online media tend to start this way. The early services, such as CompuServe, Prodigy or A
20、OL, began as “walled gardens“ before they opened up to become websites. The early e-mail services could send messages only within their own walls (rather as Facebooks messaging does today). Instant-messaging, too, started closed, but is gradually opening up. In social networking, this evolution is j
21、ust beginning. Parts of the industry are collaborating in a “data portability workgroup“ to let people move their friend lists and other information around the web. Others are pushing Open ID, a plan to create a single, federated sign-on system that people can use across many sites. The opening of s
22、ocial networks may now accelerate thanks to that older next big thing, webmail. As a technology, mall has come to seem rather old-fashioned. But Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft and other firms are now discovering that they may already have the ideal infrastructure (基础设施 ) for social networking in the form
23、 of the address books, in-boxes and calendars of their users. “E-mail in the wider sense is the most important social network,“ says David Ascher, who manages Thunder-bird, a cutting-edge open-source e-mail application, for the Mozilla Foundation, which also oversees the popular Firefox web browser.
24、 That is because the extended in-box contains invaluable and dynamically updated information about human connections. On Facebook, a social graph notoriously deteriorates after the initial thrill of finding old friends from school wears off. By contrast, an e-mail account has access to the entire ad
25、dress book and can infer information from the frequency and intensity of contact as it occurs. Joe gets e-malls from Jack and Jane, but opens only Janes; Joe has Jane in his calendar tomorrow, and is instant-messaging with her right now; Joe tagged Jack “work only“ in his address book. Perhaps Joes
26、party photos should be visible to Jane, but not Jack. This kind of social intelligence can be applied across many services on the open web. Better yet, if there is no pressure to make a business out of it, it can remain intimate, and discreet. Facebook has an economic incentive to publish ever more
27、data about its users, says Mr Ascher, whereas Thunderbird, which is an open-source project, can let users minimise what they share. Social networking may end up being everywhere, and yet nowhere. 2 Nearly everyone has realized that Microsoft buying Hotmail has illustrated the paradox of Internet. （
28、A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 3 The providers of web-mail like Google, Microsoft and Yahoo!, have reaped huge profits by placing advertisements. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 4 The Internet and media companies have realized the implicit valuations of social networking, but havent made it a working revenue model. （ A）
29、 Y （ B） N （ C） NG 5 Facebooks idea to social marketing has problems both in theory and in practice. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 6 Social networking has its enormous utility and enables friends to interact via means such as games, greetings and _. 7 Charlene Li considered that the future social networks wi
30、ll be _. 8 The disadvantage of todays social networks is that to the outside web, they are not _. 9 The program aimed at creating a single, federated sign-on system is called _. 10 The opening of social network may now accelerate owing to _. 11 Contrary to the opening up of Facebook, the Thunderbird
31、 can make users minimize _. 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 will be spoken only once. After each ques
32、tion 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） Three quarters of an hour. （ B） Ten minutes. （ C） Half an hour. （ D） A quarter of an hour. （ A） The clothes dont look clean to him. （ B） He doesnt intend to ge
33、t the clothes. （ C） The woman can pick up her own clothes. （ D） The woman should stop staring at his clothes. （ A） Satisfied with their price. （ B） Displeased with their quality. （ C） Pleased with modern mass-production techniques. （ D） Displeased with their technological complexity. （ A） Miss part
34、of the performance. （ B） Find their seats in the theater. （ C） Enter the mission. （ D） Look for a gas station. （ A） The solar system is a bit smaller than the great bear. （ B） The solar system is bigger than the great bear. （ C） The solar system is much smaller than the great bear. （ D） The solar sy
35、stem is as big as the great bear. （ A） To enter the mans apartment. （ B） The man forgot where he hid it. （ C） The man forgot it. （ D） The man lost it. （ A） He doesnt know if Mr. Lee was born in Indonesia. （ B） He doesnt know where Mr. Lee lived before. （ C） He doesnt know when Mr. Lee would go to Ho
36、ng Kong. （ D） He doesnt know where Mr. Lee grew up. （ A） She doesnt like to go shopping. （ B） She went shopping yesterday. （ C） She doesnt live near the shops. （ D） She prefers shopping to studying. （ A） Problems with living in an apartment. （ B） The chance to find a part-time job. （ C） The cost of
37、rent near universities. （ D） A search for a new apartment. （ A） Somewhere that is within a short driving distance of campus. （ B） An apartment with furniture already in it. （ C） A place where she can live alone. （ D） A quiet room where she can study without interruption. （ A） He is planning on calli
38、ng a friend who owns an apartment building. （ B） He will check the newspapers to see if he can find an apartment for rent. （ C） He will put an advertisement on the local BBS. （ D） He is going to visit an apartment building near his place. （ A） Computer sales negotiations. （ B） A preliminary intervie
39、w. （ C） An Internet seminar meeting. （ D） An oral test for computer science. （ A） A web page authoring program. （ B） A kind of drinks. （ C） A computer game software. （ D） A foreign name for a famous programmer. （ A） She will call Mr. Taylor in the next few days. （ B） She will talk over their discuss
40、ion with others. （ C） She will not contact him for further consideration. （ D） She advises the man to give it up. （ A） Hardworking at his former company. （ B） Confident in his abilities. （ C） Poor at computer technology. （ D） Promising for the position. Section B Directions: In this section, you wil
41、l 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 once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D. （ A） The weather will be clear and fine. （ B） Rain wi
42、ll probably come. （ C） There will be a fog. （ D） Fine weather will continue. （ A） When there is a heavy rain. （ B） When fine weather continues. （ C） When there is a fog. （ D） When wet weather is coming. （ A） The following day will be fine. （ B） Fine weather will continue. （ C） Rainy weather will pro
43、bably come. （ D） The rain will stop. （ A） It first become serious about five years ago. （ B） It has finally been brought under control. （ C） It may lead to prosperity. （ D） It has been climbing. （ A） Its one half as much as 1976. （ B） Its twice as much as 1976. （ C） Its close to the same. （ D） Its t
44、wo-thirds as much as 1976. （ A） Income tax is collected from even the poorest citizen. （ B） State tax is collected from even the poorest citizen. （ C） Social security tax is collected from even the poorest citizen. （ D） Sales tax is collected from even the poorest citizen. （ A） There were only grand
45、parents and children. （ B） There was one father, one mother, and their children. （ C） There were many relatives. （ D） There were two or more brothers with their wives. （ A） Women have more freedom and can share in decisions. （ B） Women do not have to be the heads of the family. （ C） Womens relatives
46、 do not help them with the housework and children. （ D） Women have all the power of the family. （ A） Husbands share power with their wives and help them with the housework. （ B） Older women do not often have important positions. （ C） Family structure is more patriarchal in the nuclear family. （ D） W
47、omen have to help sisters, grandparents with housework and children. （ A） They want to stay home and do the housework. （ B） They dont have enough money. （ C） They have too much work and not much free time. （ D） They have more freedom than in the past. Section C Directions: In this section, you will
48、hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. 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
49、 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 People do not analyze every problem they meet. Sometimes they try to remember a【 B1】 _ from the last time they had a similar problem. They often accept the【 B2】 _ or ideas of other people. Other times they begin to act without thinking; they try to find a solution by【 B3】 _ and error. However, when all these【
