1、大学英语六级模拟试卷 612及答案与解析 一、 Part I Writing (30 minutes) 1 For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write A Letter of Invitation. You should write at least 150 words according to the outlines given below in Chinese: 1此次晚会的目的 2参加晚会的人员及晚会时间和地点 3希望老师能来参加 A Letter of Invitation 二、 Part II Reading Compreh
2、ension (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 in the passage; N (for NO) if the st
3、atement contradicts the information given in the passage; NG (for NOT GIVEN) if the information is not given in the passage. 1 Social Networking 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 agr
4、ees 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 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 w
5、eb 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. 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.
6、 The correct half is that a next big thing-web-mall then, social networking now-can indeed quickly become something that consumers expect from 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 ce
7、rtainly not become a business. Admittedly, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, AOL and other providers of web-mall accounts do place advertisements on 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,
8、 including its associated address book, calendar, and other features, is cheap to deliver and keeps consumers engaged with their brands and websites, making users more likely to visit affiliated pages where advertising is more effective. Social networking appears to be similar in this regard. The bi
9、g internet and media companies have bid up the implicit valuations of MySpace, Facebook and others. But that does not mean there is a working revenue model. Sergey Brin, Googles co-founder, recently admitted that Googles “social networking inventory as a whole“ was proving problematic and that the “
10、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 advertisements on its network, MySpace, and also owns its own network, Orkut. Clearly, Google is not making money from either. Facebook, now allied to Microsoft, h
11、as fared worse. Its grand attempt to redefine the advertising industry by pioneering a new approach to social marketing, called Beacon, failed completely. Facebooks idea was to inform a users friends whenever he bought something at certain online retailers, by running a small announcement inside the
12、 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, 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
13、apologized. So it is entirely conceivable that social networking, like web-mail, will never make oodles of money. That, however, in no way detracts from its enormous utility. Social networking has made explicit the connections between people, so that a thriving ecosystem of small programs can exploi
14、t this “social graph“ to enable friends to interact via games, greetings, video clips and so on. But should users really have to visit a specific 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 Ch
15、arlene IA at Forrester Research, a consultancy. Future social networks, she thinks, “will be anywhere and everywhere we need and want them to 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 o
16、r instant messenger. No need to upload photos to Facebook to show them to friends, since those with privacy permissions in your electronic address 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
17、to be “open toward independent programmers, to encourage them to write fun new software for them. But they are reluctant to become equally open towards their users, because the networks lofty valuations depend on maximizing their page views-so they maintain a tight grip on their users information, t
18、o ensure that they keep coming back. As a result, avid internet users often maintain separate accounts on several social networks, instant-messaging 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 ea
19、ch service separately. It is a drag. Historically, online media tend to start this way. The early services, such as CompuServe, Prodigy or AOL, 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 Fac
20、ebooks messaging does today). Instant-messaging, too, started closed, but is gradually opening up. In social networking, this evolution is just beginning. Parts of the industry are collaborating in a “data portability workgroup“ to let people move their friend lists and other information around the
21、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 social 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!,
22、 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 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 T
23、hunder-bird, a cutting-edge open-source e-mail application, for the Mozilla Foundation, which also oversees the popular Firefox web browser. That is because the extended in-box contains invaluable and dynamically updated information about human connections. On Facebook, a social graph notoriously de
24、teriorates after the initial thrill of finding old friends from school wears off. By contrast, an e-mail account has access to the entire address 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 ha
25、s Jane in his calendar tomorrow, and is instant-messaging with her right now; Joe tagged Jack “work only“ in his address book. Perhaps Joes 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
26、 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 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
27、 being everywhere, and yet nowhere. 2 Nearly everyone has realized that Microsoft buying Hotmail has illustrated the paradox of Internet. （ 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 T
28、he Internet and media companies have realized the implicit valuations of social networking, but havent made it a working revenue model. （ A） 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 u
29、tility and enables friends to interact via means such as games, greetings and _. 7 Charlene Li considered that the future social networks will 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 sy
30、stem is called _. 10 The opening of social network may now accelerate owing to _. 11 Contrary to the opening up of Facebook, the Thunderbird 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
31、, 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 D, and decide which is the best answer. （ A） The man was the onl
32、y survivor of an air crash. （ B） People on board were frightened and tried to escape. （ C） The man has always been very lucky in accidents. （ D） A few passengers came back home safe and sound. （ A） In an office. （ B） In a restaurant. （ C） In a department store. （ D） In a factory. （ A） The woman thin
33、ks the maid was beautiful. （ B） The woman thinks the salesman exaggerated his part. （ C） The woman thinks the salesman was realistic. （ D） The woman thinks the salesman was not dramatic enough. （ A） They are quite different in painting skills. （ B） Neither of them is good at house-painting. （ C） The
34、y are equally good at house-painting. （ D） Both of them will paint the house the day after tomorrow. （ A） He found it unbelievable. （ B） He was not surprised about it. （ C） He found the truth unacceptable. （ D） He was arrogant about it. （ A） Lend Marsha some reference materials. （ B） Ask Marsha wher
35、e the bookshelf is. （ C） Check through the books on Marshas shelf. （ D） Ask Marsha if she has an extra bookshelf. （ A） Mother and son. （ B） Lawyer and client. （ C） Teacher and student. （ D） Dentist and patient. （ A） Professor Smith doesnt hold seminars or discussions in his lectures. （ B） Students s
36、ometimes fall asleep in Professor Smiths lectures. （ C） Professor Smiths lectures are always well attended. （ D） The front seats are very hard to get in English lectures. （ A） Employer and employee. （ B） Interviewer and interviewee. （ C） Teacher and student. （ D） Police officer and driver. （ A） She
37、didnt yield to children crossing the road. （ B） She parked illegally near the school. （ C） She exceeded the speed limit. （ D） She was drunk-driving. （ A） The woman gets a ticket. （ B） The man arrests the woman. （ C） The woman is taken to court. （ D） The woman ran away. （ A） Go to summer school. （ B）
38、 Take a vacation, （ C） Stay at home. （ D） Earn some money, （ A） They hired someone to stay in their home. （ B） They left their pets with neighbors. （ C） They rented their house to a student. （ D） They asked their gardener to watch their home. （ A） Walking the dog. （ B） Cutting the grass. （ C） Watchi
39、ng the children. （ D） Feeding the fish. （ A） They attend a housesitters party. （ B） They check a housesitts references. （ C） They interview a housesitters friends. （ D） They look at a housesitters transcripts. Section B Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each
40、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 stem of the nettle. （ B） Small stinging hairs on the nettles stem. （ C） The sap of the n
41、ettle. （ D） The slender nettle. （ A） Food. （ B） Making twine. （ C） Medicine. （ D） Paving paths. （ A） The nettle is widely used in the twine industry today. （ B） The nettles stinging hairs are a protective device. （ C） American Indians found many uses for the nettle. （ D） The slender nettle is found
42、over a wide area of China. （ A） They affect ones way of looking at the world. （ B） They make people feel lonely and unwanted. （ C） They affect ones health condition. （ D） They are addictive and hard to change. （ A） To talk with someone or with oneself. （ B） To have a long and good relaxation. （ C） T
43、o do more aerobic exercises. （ D） To take more anti-anxiety drugs. （ A） Because it gives people a sense of achievement. （ B） Because most people like doing it every day. （ C） Because it is neither biochemical nor poisonous. （ D） Because it increases the heart rate and circulation. （ A） They treated
44、their workers more humanely. （ B） They completely ignored consumers health. （ C） They turned out more unhealthy products at will. （ D） They were controlled less strictly by the authorities. （ A） Hardly ever looked into the causes of tragedies. （ B） Imposed safety rules as soon as accidents took plac
45、e. （ C） Seldom introduced safety laws before disasters occurred. （ D） Paid much attention to the results of scientific discoveries. （ A） A company with dangerous working conditions is likely to be punished. （ B） There are altogether three departments which protect customers and workers. （ C） Stores
46、dealing in foods and drugs are controlled by the local government. （ D） The protection of workers health and safety is still not well ensured. （ A） Industries in the past and at present. （ B） Changes in the development of industries. （ C） The freedom of industries today and in the past. （ D） The pro
47、tection of industrial workers and customers. 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 idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks
48、 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 Dr. Gregory Connolly is director of the office for no
49、n-smoking and health in the Massachusetts public health department. He said the U. S. had【 B1】 _ Taiwan, Japan, Korea and Thailand with trade sanctions unless they opened up their markets to US cigarettes and tobacco【 B2】 _ . “We are trading them cancer in the form of Camel cigarettes“, Connolly told a world health conference. “That is something to be【 B3】 _ and ashamed of. “ Connolly did not say when the threats were made or by whom. U.S. tobacco company offici
