1、大学英语六级模拟试卷 653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 title: Should Class Attendance Be Optional? You should write at least 150 words following the outline given below in Chinese. Should Class Attendance Be Optional
2、1描述现在大学课堂及讲座上常见的现象：态度不认真，睡觉，发短信及出勤率低 因此提出大学课堂是否应该采取自愿而非强制 2列举原因 3我的看法 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 (
3、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. 2 Cell phone: your next computer One hundred nineteen hours, 41 minutes and 16
4、seconds. Thats the amount of time Adam Rappoport, a high school senior in Philadelphia, has spent talking into his silver Verizon LG phone since he got it as a gift last Christmas. Thats not even the full extent of his habit. He also spends countless additional hours using his phones Internet connec
5、tion to check sports scores, download new ring-tones and send short messages to his friends phones, even in the middle of class. “I know the touch-tone pad on the phone better than I know a keyboard,“ he says. “Im a phone guy.“ In Tokyo, halfway around the world, Satoshi Koiso also closely eyes his
6、mobile phone. Koiso, a college junior, lives in the global capital of fancy new gadgets 20 percent of all phones in Tokyo link to the fastest mobile networks in the world. Tokyoites use their phones to watch TV, read books and magazines and play games. But Koiso also depends on his phone for somethi
7、ng simpler and more profound: an anti-smoking message that pops up on his small screen each morning as part of a program to help students kick cigarettes. Technology revolutions come in two flavors: greatly fast and imperceptibly slow. The fast kind, like the sudden ubiquity of iPods or the prolifer
8、ation(增殖 ) of music-sharing sites on the Net, seem to instantly reshape the cultural lahdscape. The slower upheavals(巨变 ) grind away over the course of decades, subtly transforming the way we live and work. There are 1.5 billion cell phones in the world today, more than three times the number of PCs
9、. Mobile phones are so integral to our lives that its difficult to remember how the life we ever got on without them. Can the cell phone turn into the next computer? As our phones get smarter, smaller and faster, and enable users to connect at high speeds to the Internet, an obvious question arises:
10、 is the mobile handset turning into the next computer? In one sense, it already has. Todays most sophisticated phones have the processing power of a mid-1990s PC while consuming 100 times less electricity. And more and more of todays phones have computer-like features, allowing their owners to send
11、e-mail, browse the Web and even take photos; 84 million phones with digital cameras were shipped last year. Change it into another same question, though, to ask to whether mobile phones will ever eclipse, or replace, the PC, and the issue suddenly becomes Controversial. PC proponents say phones are
12、too small and connect too sluggishly to the Internet to become effective at tasks now performed on the luxuriously large screens and keyboards of todays computers. Fans of the phone respond: just wait. Coming innovations will solve the limitations of the phone. “One day, 2 or 3 billion people will h
13、ave cell phones, and they are all not going to have PCs,“ says Jeff Hawkins, inventor of the Palm Pilot and the chief technology officer of PalmOne. “The mobile phone will become their digital life.“ Smart cell phones PalmOne is among the firms racing to trot out the full-featured computer-like phon
14、es that the industry dubs “smart-phones“. Hawkins newest product, the sleek, pocket-size Treo 600, has a tiny keyboard, a built-in digital camera and slots for added memory, etc. Other device makers have introduced their own unique versions of the smart-phone. Nokias N-Gage, launched last fall, with
15、 a new version to hit stores this month, plays videogames. Motorolas upcoming MPx has a nifty “dual-hinge“ design: the handset opens in one direction and looks like a regular phone, but it also flips open along another axis and looks like an e-mail device, with the expanded phone keypad serving as a
16、 small QWERTY keyboard. There axe also smart- phones on the way with video cameras, GPS antennas and access to local Wi-Fi hotspots, the snperfast wireless networks often found in offices, airports and local cafes. Theres not yet a phone that doubles as an electric toothbrush, but that cant be far a
17、way: The smart-phone market constitutes only a slender 5 percent of overall mobile phone sales today, but the figure has been doubling each year, according to the Gartner research firm. In the United States, its the business crowd thats primarily buying these souped-up handsets. “What makes (the sma
18、rt-phone ) so much better than the computer is that its always with you, always up and always ready,“ says Jeff Hackett of Gordon Feinblatt, an 80-member law firm in Baltimore, Maryland, that recently started giving its, lawyers Treo 600s of laptops. Can the cell phone provide location-based service
19、s? Mobile-phone watchers say that handsets in the next few years will pack a gigabyte(字节 ) or more of flash memory, turning the phone into a huge photo album or music player and giving stand-alone iPods a run for their money. For several years the industry has also talked about “location-based servi
20、ces“, built around a phones ability to detect its exact location anywhere in the world. With this capability, phones will soon be able to provide precise driving directions, serve up discounts for stores as you walk by them and expand dating services. Can the cell phone perform many of the function
21、of the PC? But its not all mobile technologists think the ultimate promise of the mobile Phone ends there. Could your phone one day actually perform many of the functions of the PC, like word processing and Web browsing? PalmOnes Hawkins thinks so. Within the next few decades, he predicts, all phone
22、s will become mobile phones; all networks will be capable of receiving voice and Internet signals at broadband speeds, and all mobile bills wilt shrink to only a few dollars as the phone companies pay off their investments in the new networks. “You are going to have the equivalent of a persistent(fa
23、st) T1 line in your pocket. Thats it. Its going to happen,“ Hawkins predicts. The computer wont go away, be says, but it might fade to the background, since people prefer portability and devices that turn on instantly instead of having to boot up. Defenders of the PC react with religious outrage to
24、this kind of prophecy(预言 ). Laptops allow another kind of mobile computing, they point out, particularly with the emergence of thousands of Wi-Fi networks around the world over the past four years. By the end of this year half of all laptops shipped will be Wi-Fi-equipped, allowing laptop owners to
25、set up temporary offices in the local caf or public park. Then theres the matter of simple practicality: mobile phones are small and getting smaller. Humans are not. “Hundreds of millions of people are not going to replace the full screen, mouse and keyboard experience with staring at a little scree
26、n,“ says Sean Maloney, an executive VP at chipmaker Intel. Yet mobile-phone innovators are working to solve that tricky problem, too. Scientists are continuing decades of research into speech-recognition systems and have recently introduced the technology into PDAs. Users can control these gadgets w
27、ith simple voice commands. Phones dont have enough processing power for speech recognition yet, but Moores Law the inevitability of annual improvements in computing power will help phones get there soon, provided that battery life can keep up. Other innovators are working on improving the keyboard i
28、nstead of scrapping it altogether. The problems of the cell phone facing in the future Cell phones arent likely to take the fastest road to this bright future. Innovation in the mo- bile industry is full of frustration and wrong turns, often because no single company completely controls the device i
29、n your pocket. Local carriers sell the phone to customers, provide billing and run the phone network; devices makers like Sony, Nokia and Samsung design the phone itself, and outsource the actual manufacturing to factories in China. Another challenge is that, unlike the internet, the phone world has
30、 no open and single set of protocols(协议 ) for programmers to build around. Software written for one kind of phone wont work on all the others. The uncoordinated, noncommercial programming that led to the quick evolution of the Internet hasnt taken hold in the world of mobile phones. 2 Adam Rappoport
31、 has the same familiarity with a keyboard as well as the touch-tone pad on the phone. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 3 No matter how slow technology revolutions are, they can change our lifestyles. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 4 The mobile handset has completely turned into the next computer. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG
32、5 As a smart phone, Treo 600 has GPS antennas and access to local Wi-Fi hotspots. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 6 A survey shows that the sale rate of smart phones has grown _ each year. 7 The cell phone industry says that future cell phones can provide _ based on its ability to detect its exact location an
33、y where in the world. 8 According to Hawkins, computers will fade to the background because cell phones are_ devices. 9 Laptops equipped with _ can allow their owners to temporarily deal with office work in some public places. 10 To solve the size problem of cell phones, scientists have been researc
34、hing _ for decades. 11 The Internets _ programming isnt suitable for mobile phones. 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
35、 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 mountains. （ B） The seaside. （ C） The park. （ D） The forest. （ A） She wouldnt mind doing it if she
36、could. （ B） She wished she hadnt had the meeting. （ C） She didnt want to because she would rather go to Chicago. （ D） would be able to have the meeting. （ A） She missed her friends. （ B） She thinks shes catching another cold. （ C） She likes tomato sauce on everything she eats. （ D） has a lot of work
37、 to make up. （ A） In a bookstore. （ B） In a library. （ C） Ina classroom. （ D） In a hotel. （ A） She disagrees with the man. （ B） She doesnt agree with Cynthia. （ C） She thinks its narrow-minded. （ D） She doesnt believe either of them. （ A） He prefers shorter plays to this one. （ B） He doesnt have to
38、go to that play. （ C） He wouldnt see the play as the woman did. （ D） He liked the play better the first time he saw it. （ A） The casher of the hotel. （ B） The receptionist at the front desk. （ C） The hotel operator. （ D） The Bell Telephone operator. （ A） Because they are alike. （ B） Because the mans
39、 briefcase has a lock. （ C） Because the mans briefcase is smaller. （ D） Because she doesnt have a briefcase. （ A） A foreign tourist. （ B） A hotel receptionist. （ C） A travel agent. （ D） A shop assistant. （ A） Cinemas. （ B） Stage shows. （ C） Night clubs. （ D） Discos. （ A） Eating in an English restaur
40、ant. （ B） Eating with an English family. （ C） Eating in any local restaurant. （ D） There is no way to taste it. （ A） Colleagues. （ B） Boss-Employee. （ C） Student-Librarian. （ D） Lawyer-Client. （ A） The foreign student needs to get credits of 24 semester hours. （ B） The foreign student needs to get a
41、t least 120 credits. （ C） The foreign student needs to get at least 120 credits plus thesis. （ D） The foreign student needs to get credits 0f24 semester hours plus 14 consecutive semesters. （ A） It focuses on the development of the student s ability for independent scholarly work in a particular fie
42、ld. （ B） It focuses on a variety of fields of knowledge and emphasizes the development of the student s ability for independent research of all fields. （ C） It focuses on a specific field of knowledge and emphasizes the development of the student s ability of cooperation. （ D） Not mentioned. （ A） St
43、udents working on a doctoral program with a Master s degree have ten consecutive semesters to complete the requirements. （ B） Students entering a graduate study have 14 consecutive semesters to complete the requirements. （ C） Students may continue their studies towards the doctoral degree after comp
44、leting an M.A. or M.S. （ D） Students working on a doctoral program without a Master s degree have fourteen consecutive emesters. 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
45、 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） Railway workers. （ B） A robot. （ C） A computer. （ D） A machine. （ A） The workers on the underground platforms were replaced by machines. （ B） It became the first completely
46、automatic railway in the world. （ C） A completely automatic line was added to its network. （ D） Computers began controlling the trains on the line. （ A） To drive the train after it is started automatically. （ B） To start the train and drive it when necessary. （ C） To take care of the passengers in t
47、he train. （ D） To send commanding signals to the command spot. （ A） They were attached to the cover. （ B） They were written by the employment center. （ C） They were written via emails. （ D） They were written to the employers through fax. （ A） He wants to show the increase of the employment. （ B） He
48、wants to show the preference of the employers and employees. （ C） He wants to make his research scientific. （ D） He wants to show the increasing preference of using emailed resumes. （ A） To complete his/her personal information. （ B） To make a cover letter with these. （ C） To impress the employers.
49、（ D） To distinguish themselves from others entailed resumes. （ A） By making up a story. （ B） By constructing a hotel on the hill. （ C） By showing people around his hotel. （ D） By inviting a friend to help him. 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 num
