1、大学英语六级模拟试卷 809及答案与解析 一、 Part I Writing (30 minutes) 1 For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled On Campus Security. You should write at least 150 words following the outline given below： 1目前在中国，校园安全事故时有发生 2这种现象造成了恶劣的影 响 3应该如何杜绝这种现象 On Campus Security 二、 Part II Readin
2、g 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 in the passage; N (for NO)
3、if the statement contradicts the information given in the passage; NG (for NOT GIVEN) if the information is not given in the passage. 1 Hollywood “Globalized“ When director Adam McKay pitched a sequel (续集 )to his 2004 hit movie Anchorman, he thought it would be a no-brainer for Hollywood. The $ 20 m
4、illion comedy grossed more than $ 90 million at the box office. But only $ 5 million of that came from ticket sales abroad. Paramount Pictures refused the sequel this spring, fearing the comedys uniquely American brand of humor wouldnt play abroad. “At the end of the day, the economics of the busine
5、ss have changed there is so much more pressure to play globally, and we couldnt fight that,“ says Mr. McKay. International Box Office The rising power of international audiences is a sea change for Hollywood. Decades ago, a movies foreign box office barely registered with studio executives. Now, for
6、eign ticket sales represent nearly 68% of the roughly $ 32 billion global film market, up from roughly 58% a decade ago, according to Screen Digest Cinema Intelligence Service. The result is that one of the most American of products is now being retooled to suit foreign tastes. Studios have begun to
7、 cast foreign actors in American-themed blockbusters (大片 )like G. I. Joe. Scripts are being rewritten to lure global audiences. And studios are cutting back on standard Hollywood fare like romantic comedies because foreign movie-goers often dont find American jokes all that funny. Several Hollywood
8、studios have gone as far as financing, producing and marketing original movies for markets like South Korea and Brazil. “We need to make movies that have the ability to break out internationally,“ says Rob Moore, vice chairman of Paramount Pictures. “Thats the only way to make the economic puzzle of
9、 film production work today.“ The rise of the international box office has as much to do with a shifting global economy as with the evolution of the movie business. For years, Hollywoods bottom line was propped up by double-digit growth in DVD sales. Dwindling (缩减 )in-theater audiences in North Amer
10、ica also have contributed to the shift. Another factor: Regions from Asia to Eastern Europe went on a credit-fueled building boom, erecting shopping mallsoften with multiplexes attached. Local Films IMAX Corp. has opened 66 big-screen theaters abroad in the last three years, including 25 in Asia to
11、increase the companys brand awareness in Asia. Satisfying foreign audiences has been tricky for Hollywood. Years ago, audiences in South Korea would faithfully go to the multiplex to watch movies that were written, produced, and cast out of Hollywood. Now, increasingly sophisticated local films are
12、giving Hollywood a run for its money. In South Korea, ticket sales to local movies accounted for about 10% or 20% of box-office revenue in the 1990s. Hollywood movies grabbed the lions share. Now, local fare makes up nearly 50% of South Korean ticket sales, according to Screen Digest. In 2008, veter
13、an film executive Sanford Panitch was shocked when a Twentieth Century Fox film he worked on called “Jumper“ was nearly eclipsed (衰落 )in South Korea by a local crime thriller called The Chaser. Just a few months later, Mr. Panitch was plucked to head up the studios new Fox International Productions
14、division. Fox, noticing that local films were eating up more of the foreign box office, had become worried about its ability to reach up-and-coming markets with its Hollywood fare. Fox set up the new division so it could start developing, producing, and distributing local-language movies for those c
15、ountries. Mr. Panitch says he sometimes uses Foxs vast array of film production resources like relationships with special-effects companies to dress up foreign films. But he says its more important to draw on local producers and their expertise to make films that appeal to that particular audience.
16、“Its not about bringing Hollywood tactics to the foreign markets,“ says Mr. Panitch. “Its about participating in a local culture enough to create a product that those audiences will actually want to watch.“ De- Americanize Donna Langley, co-chair of General Electric Co. s Universal Pictures unit, wa
17、s recently working on the script for an upcoming big-budget movie based on the Hasbro board game Battleship. The plotline is classic Hollywood: Evil aliens land on earth and live underwater. One of the first people at Universal to read the script was David Kosse, the studios London-based president.
18、One worry surfaced immediately: The aliens only threatened the USa premise deemed “too American.“ Universal asked the writers to redo the script. In the new version, the aliens threaten the entire world. “The movie takes place off the coast of Hawaii, but the question we asked was, How do we make th
19、is a global proposition?“ said Ms. Langley. Universal now tries to have senior executives vet scripts early to look for ways to make them more international. Last summer, Paramount was worried that its 2009 summer release, G.I. Joe, which cost $175 million, might flop overseas. “People questioned wh
20、ether it would travel outside the US because the original formulation is a strong US military theme,“says Mr. Moore, the Paramount executive. The solution: Stuff the cast with international stars. In the end, G.I. Joe grossed slightly more abroad than at home, taking in $ 152 million of its world-wi
21、de $ 302 million in ticket sales overseas. But Hollywood has concluded that some movies just cant make it abroad. “A lot of comedies and a lot of comedians dont travel,“says Mr. Moore. Paramount and others have begun to give them the ax. Fox Searchlight was recently developing “Baggage Claim,“ which
22、 chronicles a young flight attendants search for Mr. Right and stars an ensemble of African-American actors. But that film ended up in “turnaround,“ the Hollywood term for when a studio abandons the rights to a project and allows others to acquire it. It was heavily targeted to an African-American a
23、udience, a factor that often means the film wont play well abroad. Since Anchorman 2 was killed, Mr. McKay, the director, has been trying to broaden the foreign appeal of his next project, The Other Guys, a $ 100 million comedy. Sony Pictures will bring it out in August. A key plot point of the film
24、 involves Mr. Wahlberg and Yankee shortstop Derek Jeter. Sonys executives initially worried that Mr. Jeterand the joke that involves himwould seem too American. They found a solution: The studio asked Mr. McKay to spend his summer re-shooting those scenes with international sports stars, and it went
25、 after soccer stars David Beckham of England and Cristiano Ronaldo of Portugal. Sony wanted to release a separate version of the film abroad starring Messrs. Beckham or Ronaldo rather than Mr. Jeter. Neither soccer player was available in the end. But the studio plans to use the strategy in the futu
26、re. “I gotta tell you, I loved the idea and still think its really smart,“ says Mr. McKay. “Its a whole new way of looking at movies,“ he adds. “Rather than trying to veer your audience toward the film, just tweak your film to the audience. Next, Id like to start tweaking movies by region, one versi
27、on for the Midwest, another for the East Coast, and the South.“ 2 Why did Paramount Pictures refuse to invest in the sequel to Anchorman? （ A） The director wanted to change the comedy into a tragedy. （ B） The stars demanded a much higher pay than what they could afford. （ C） They didnt think foreign
28、 viewers would enjoy the American humor in the movie. （ D） The play failed to be a commercial success and thus disappointed Paramount. 3 What is the great change Hollywood is faced with? （ A） The growingly competitive movie industry. （ B） The increasing influence of international audiences. （ C） The
29、 new rules of censoring in movie producing. （ D） The changed movie introduction systems abroad. 4 What measures have Hollywood taken to suit foreign tastes? （ A） Casting foreign actors in American-themed movies. （ B） Presenting true American culture. （ C） Making more romantic comedies. （ D） Expandin
30、g the varieties of the movie themes. 5 What has contributed to the rise of the international box office? （ A） The collapse of film industry. （ B） The shifting global economy. （ C） The enlarging audiences in North America. （ D） The support of government. 6 What happens to Hollywood movies in South Ko
31、rea? （ A） The increasingly sophisticated local films are competing for its market share. （ B） More people choose to stay at home watching DVD instead of going to the cinema. （ C） The government supports local film industry and curbs foreign film industry. （ D） More big-screen theaters have been buil
32、t in recent years. 7 What is the aim of Twentieth Century Fox to set up the International Productions division? （ A） To support and finance local movie talents. （ B） To gain an international edge in movie making. （ C） To avoid using the expensive stars in Hollywood. （ D） To develop, produce and dist
33、ribute local-language movies. 8 According to Mr. Panitch, what matters in making local-language movies? （ A） Using Hollywood resources. （ B） Dressing up foreign films. （ C） Employing Hollywood tactics. （ D） Participating in the local culture. 9 Mr. Langley and other script writers of the movie based
34、 on Battleship are confronted with the question how to_. 10 When a studio abandons the rights to a project and allows others to acquire it, the Hollywood term to say this is that the film_. 11 According to Mr. McKay, a whole new way of looking at movies is not to try to veer your audience toward the
35、 film but to_. 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 question there wi
36、ll 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） In a restaurant. （ B） In an office. （ C） In a hospital. （ D） In a classroom. （ A） Advertise on school radio. （ B） Let the radio station know the seminar. （ C） Raise money f
37、or the advertisement. （ D） Make an announcement in public. （ A） The weather of last night. （ B） The deserts in the world. （ C） The cause of Death Valley. （ D） The mans camping in the desert. （ A） Her student. （ B） Her supervisor. （ C） Her colleague. （ D） Her tutor. （ A） Ask the woman to join the the
38、ater group. （ B） Prepare for joining the theater group. （ C） Rehearse a new program for the group. （ D） Look for more people for their group. （ A） The man got the flu recently. （ B） The woman didnt recognize the man. （ C） The woman didnt recover from illness. （ D） The man met the woman last week. （
39、A） The man didnt like his old wall. （ B） The wallpapers faded long time ago. （ C） The mans wife swept the floor. （ D） The woman brought some wallpapers to the man. （ A） Play instruments in class. （ B） Ask her classmates for help. （ C） Give her speech without preparation. （ D） Discuss a topic with th
40、e students. （ A） Making a saving plan. （ B） Setting up a bank account. （ C） Setting clear investing goals. （ D） Making clear why to invest. （ A） The different kinds of investments. （ B） The importance of investments. （ C） The risks of the products and their potential rewards. （ D） The sum of investm
41、ents. （ A） It is a good place to invest in. （ B） It has up times as well as down times. （ C） It can assure us great benefit. （ D） It has more up times than down times. （ A） The building with log shape. （ B） The traditional log cabin. （ C） The senior homes with logs. （ D） The blocking beams and walls
42、. （ A） In the river valley of European. （ B） Along the Delaware river valley. （ C） Along the mountain of America. （ D） In a European county. （ A） The shape of log homes was suitable for them. （ B） They had easy access to logs in that area. （ C） They wanted to change the European traditions. （ D） The
43、 way of building the log house was easy. （ A） Look at the slides of the modern log houses. （ B） See some pictures of the mountain retreats. （ C） Listen to the presentation of the New Yorkers. （ D） Take a trip to the Delaware river valley. Section B Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short
44、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） He was the great political leader for the earlier America. （ B）
45、 He supported the American War of Independence. （ C） He contributed a lot to the cultural independence of America. （ D） He was the pioneer of European travelling. （ A） He was subjective and conservative. （ B） He really had the American spirit. （ C） He was opposed to the radical. （ D） He had the powe
46、r of freeing them. （ A） He believed that God could be found in the church. （ B） He considered that God was in peoples minds. （ C） He held that God was in the words of people. （ D） He deemed that all people should get Gods help. （ A） It is the largest city in the world. （ B） It has many cultural and
47、amusement places. （ C） It has the most beautiful scenery. （ D） It has the best-developed highway. （ A） Their financial conditions. （ B） Their personal characters. （ C） Their marital status. （ D） Their love towards their spouses. （ A） Because there are much more funny entertainment places. （ B） Becau
48、se it has the more relaxed policy towards vices. （ C） Because it has not been suffering any real estate crash. （ D） Because it is the strongest city in the United States. （ A） Appear more feminine. （ B） Exhibit more male traits. （ C） Try to be unique. （ D） Sacrifice their family. （ A） Women cant alw
49、ays get the desirable jobs. （ B） Women with assertiveness are less likeable at work. （ C） Men own more highly-prized traits compared with women. （ D） We should change the attitude toward men and women. （ A） The bank has a tendency to choose men as their employees. （ B） CV is important for most of the university students. （ C） Women should be less aggressive while hunting jobs. （ D） Women get less chance than men in some jobs. （ A） They should know the world isnt absolute. （ B） They should control th
