1、大学英语六级（ 2013年 12月考试改革适用）模拟试卷 107及答案与解析 一、 Part I Writing 1 For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay based on the picture below. You should start your essay with a brief account of the picture, give relevant examples, and then explain what you will do to solve the problem. You
2、 should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words. Section A （ A） Visit Nancy at her new department. （ B） Give the secretary Nancys new phone number. （ C） Call on Nancy at her medical school. （ D） Get information about Nancy from the secretary. （ A） He is weak in health. （ B） He has caught
3、 a cold. （ C） He is very careless. （ D） He is seriously ill. （ A） Read the operational manual. （ B） Try the buttons one by one. （ C） Make the machine run slowly. （ D） Ask her instructor for advice. （ A） He thinks the polices action was justified. （ B） He thinks the students were totally wrong. （ C）
4、He wants to find out the students side of the story. （ D） He wants to find out more before he takes a stand. （ A） He doesnt like new dorm rooms. （ B） He doesnt have a roommate. （ C） He dislikes having a roommate. （ D） He prefers having a roommate. （ A） Because of its friendly folks. （ B） Because of
5、its clean air. （ C） Because of its quietness. （ D） Because of the sense of freshness. （ A） She admitted her carelessness. （ B） She is not to blame. （ C） Shell accept all responsibility. （ D） Shell be more careful next time. （ A） Lower the students grade. （ B） Reconsider the students position later.
6、（ C） Allow the student to miss class. （ D） Suggest the student reschedule the surgery. （ A） Traveling in South Africa to seek medical help. （ B） Promoting awareness and prevention of AIDS. （ C） Visiting clients and signing contracts. （ D） Collecting fund for the new business. （ A） Africans are not v
7、ery brave and resourceful. （ B） There is no treatment or healthcare center at all. （ C） There were no effective prevention systems. （ D） There was no formal education in Africa at all. （ A） By informing people that its an incurable disease. （ B） By providing effective medicine to stop its transmissi
8、on. （ C） By disciplining young people against contracting and spreading it. （ D） By combining education and prevention with care and treatment. （ A） To organize activities for children. （ B） To sell local farm products. （ C） To bring tourists to the town. （ D） To raise fund for the hospital. （ A） In
9、 various tents. （ B） In university buildings. （ C） In a hospital. （ D） In an auditorium. （ A） Play in a band. （ B） Work at the auction. （ C） Sell refreshments. （ D） Collect tickets. （ A） He thinks its mainly for children. （ B） He feels it would be worthwhile. （ C） He believes it is too complicated.
10、（ D） He thinks it may not be very profitable. Section B （ A） Immediately. （ B） The following week. （ C） In two weeks. （ D） At the end of the semester. （ A） With a thesis statement. （ B） With a list of references. （ C） With a summary of the conference. （ D） With a conclusion of the paper. （ A） Finish
11、 a textbook assignment. （ B） Review for the final examination. （ C） Choose proper research topics. （ D） Prepare an outline for a paper. （ A） Releasing less and less carbon dioxide. （ B） Continuing to burn fuels at the present rate. （ C） Melting of ice caps in the poles. （ D） Raising sea level severa
12、l meters. （ A） The Arctic. （ B） The West Antarctic. （ C） The northern hemisphere. （ D） The southern hemisphere. （ A） Nature has equal influence compared with human beings. （ B） Nature has less influence than human beings. （ C） Nature has more influence than human beings. （ D） Nature doesnt have infl
13、uence on the whole. （ A） Less than 68%. （ B） About 50%. （ C） Over 70%. （ D） Around 45%. （ A） Whether it is necessary to put labels on prepared foods. （ B） What ingredient should a nutrition label list. （ C） How to get consumers to read labels more carefully. （ D） What food information should be prov
14、ided to consumers. （ A） Doubtful. （ B） Supportive. （ C） Opposing. （ D） Neutral. （ A） More detailed labeling. （ B） Simple labeling. （ C） Precise labeling. （ D） Basic labeling. Section C 26 Oxford University once famously claimed to have been founded by Alfred the Great in the 9th Century. But in fact
15、, the University as we know it today began to【 B1】_ in the 12th Century when English Scholars were【 B2】 _ from Paris University. Today, 39 independent, self-governing colleges【 B3】 _ the University in a type of federal system. Each is governed by a Head of House and a number of Fellows, who are acad
16、emics specializing in【 B4】 _ disciplines, most of whom also hold University posts. Across both the Arts and the Sciences, Oxford research【 B5】 _ ranks top both nationally and internationally. As well as being in the forefront(最前线 )of scientific, medical and technological【 B6】 _, the University has s
17、trong links with research institutions and industrial concerns both in the United Kingdom and overseas. The Universitys great age also allows its teaching staff and research students to draw on a【 B7】 _ of magnificent library and museum collections. Students working for higher degrees are drawn by t
18、he excellent facilities for research, which the University can offer, therefore the【 B8】 _ of graduate students is increasing. In all these fields, Oxford attracts scholars from many parts of the world to join its teaching and research staff, and also values important role of【 B9】 _ graduate student
19、s in providing intellectual stimulation and creating and maintaining academic links with colleges abroad. To gain entry into the University, students must first win a place by competitive examinations at one of the colleges, which have their own admissions policies. The procedure for applications va
20、ries according to the subject you【 B10】 _ to study. 27 【 B1】 28 【 B2】 29 【 B3】 30 【 B4】 31 【 B5】 32 【 B6】 33 【 B7】 34 【 B8】 35 【 B9】 36 【 B10】 Section A 36 Comparisons were drawn between the development of television in the 20th century and the diffusion of printing in the 15th and 16th centuries. Y
21、et much had happened between. As was discussed before, it was not until the 19th century that the newspaper became the dominant pre-electronic【 C1】 _, following in the wake of the pamphlet and the book and in the company of the periodical. It was during the same time that the communications revoluti
22、on【 C2】 _up, beginning with transport, the railway, and【 C3】 _on through the telegraph, the telephone, radio, and motion pictures into the 20th-century world of the motor car and the airplane. Not everyone sees that process in【 C4】 _. It is important to do so. It is generally recognized, however, th
23、at the introduction of the computer in the early 20th century, followed by the invention of the integrated circuit during the 1960s,【 C5】_changed the process, although its impact on the media was not immediately【 C6】 _. As time went by, computers became smaller and more powerful, and they became “pe
24、rsonal“ too, as well as institutional, with display becoming sharper and storage【 C7】 _increasing. They were thought of, like people, in terms of generations, with the distance between generations much smaller. It was within the computer age that the term “information society“ began to be widely use
25、d to describe the context within which we now live. The communications revolution has【 C8】 _both work and leisure and how we think and feel both about place and time, but there have been【 C9】 _views about its economic, political, social and cultural implications. “Benefits“ have been weighed against
26、 “harmful“【 C10】 _. And generalizations have proved difficult. A)speeded B)universal C)leading D)impressed E)influenced F)territory G)capacity H)radically I)controversial J)presumably K)perspective L)outcomes M)apparent N)distracting O)medium 37 【 C1】 38 【 C2】 39 【 C3】 40 【 C4】 41 【 C5】 42 【 C6】 43
27、【 C7】 44 【 C8】 45 【 C9】 46 【 C10】 Section B 46 Are Teenagers Really Careless About Online Privacy? AThey share, like, everything. How they feel about a song, their maths homework, life(it sucks). Where theyll be next; who theyre with now. Photos, of themselves and others, doing stuff they quite prob
28、ably shouldnt be. Theyre the digital natives, fresh-minted citizens of a humming online world. Theyve grown upare still growing upwith texting, Facebook, Line, Snapchat. Theyre the young, and they couldnt care less about privacy. At least, thats the assumption. But amid a rash of revelations about g
29、overnment surveillance(监视 ), it seems its wrong. Young people do care, a lot, about privacyjust not the kind of privacy that exercises their parents. BTrue, young people post information about themselves online that horrifies their elders. There remains “a basic lack of awareness“ about “the potenti
30、al longer-term impact of information leaks“, says Andy Phippen, professor of social responsibility in information technology at Plymouth University. “Many younger people just dont think in terms of their future employability, of identity theft, of legal problems if theyre being provocative. Not to m
31、ention straightforward reputational issues.“(Paris Brown, Phippen adds, “clearly never thought what she tweeted when she was 14“ might one day stop her being Britains first youth police commissioner.) CFar more should be done in schools to teach children to be more concerned about the future impact
32、of their online profile and reputation, Phippen argues. But the fact that they make mistakes does not mean they dont care about privacy. In fact, a report in May by the Pew Internet and the American Life Project found teenagers cared enough about online security for 60% to set their Facebook profile
33、s to “private“ and to judge privacy settings “not difficult at all“ to manage. A similar number said they routinely delete past posts, block people, and post comments only particular viewerstypically, close friendswould understand. “You have to think about what privacy means,“ says Danah Boyd, a lea
34、ding youth and social media researcher. “What matters to them is social privacy: its about how to control a social situation, which is something very different from controlling information.“ DThe Pew report found that only 9% of teens were “very“ concerned about third parties like companies or gover
35、nment agencies accessing their personal informationcompared with nearly half of their parents. Most young people have precious little idea of how much data social networking sites are collecting on thembut they tend, on the whole, to be quite relaxed about the idea, particularly if it comes as a tra
36、de-off for free use of the service. ETeens, Boyd says, tend to be concerned not by unknown third parties accessing data about them, but by “things that might be seen by the people who have power over them: parents, teachers, college admissions officers. The concern is more about your mother looking
37、at your Facebook profile than government agencies or advertisers using data youve shared.“ FYoung people are concerned, in other words, about getting into trouble. But that concern is every bit as real. So teens now manage their online security with “a whole set of strategies“, says Boyd. Many dont
38、tell the truth online: according to the Pew Internet study, 26% of teen social media users say they post fake information like a false name, age or location. Others are more subtle. Boyd uses the term “social steganography(隐写术 )“ to describe the practice of more than 50% of young people who use in-j
39、okes and obscure references to effectively encode what they post. GNonetheless, says Mary Madden, co-author of the Pew Internet report, all the signs are young people today are increasingly “practising good judgment. Theyll say, I use a filter in my brain; they do a lot of profile pruning(剪切 ), dele
40、ting and editing content, deleting tags. Theres a new awareness.“ This generation has, after all, “grown up, learned to function in a world of social surveillance“, says Madden. “Far from being privacy-indifferent, they are mindful of what they post. They have a sense that adults are watching.“ HTha
41、t sentiment may in part explain the recent popularity of new social networking services like Insta-gram and Snapchat, says Madden: “Some feel the burden of the public nature of social networking. Theyre creating smaller groups with these new services.“ ISnapchat in particular appeals because it allo
42、ws users to send annotated pictures, videos and messages to a controlled list of friendsand, crucially, to set a time limit for how long they can be viewed before they disappear and are deleted. Overall, confirms Madden, “Were seeing a pattern that runs counter to the assumption that theres this sea
43、 of young people who just dont care about privacy. Its not borne out by the data. And in some cases, they actually have stronger opinions than some adults.“ JThat certainly seems to be the picture emerging from two polls conducted earlier this year by the Pew Research Centre for the People and the P
44、ress with the Washington Post and USA Today, in the wake of Edward Snowdens revelations about broad surveillance by state security services. In the first of these polls, on 10 June, younger respondents proved much more likely than older to put personal privacy above an anti-terrorism probe: 45% of 1
45、8-to-29-year-olds said personal privacy was more important, even if protecting it limited the ability to investigate terrorist threatscompared with 35% in the 30-to-49 age range, and 27% of the over-50s. KThe second poll, on 17 June, asked whether Snowdens leaks of classified information about the N
46、SAs phone and email surveillance programmes was in the public interest. It found that people under 30 were the only age group in which “a clear majority“60%felt the revelations served the public interest. Older age groups were either divided, or thought the disclosures harmed the public interest. Si
47、milarly, 13-to-29 year-olds were less likely to feel Snowden should be prosecuted: fully 50% felt he should not be, against 44% who thought he should. That compares with 63% of over-50s who wanted see the whistleblower(告密者 )pursued. LCarroll Doherty, co-author of the second report, said previous sur
48、veys showed also that younger people perhaps because they came of age after the 9/11 attackswere generally less anxious about the risk of terrorism, and less likely to be concerned about the rise of Islamic extremism. Even after the Boston attacks earlier this year “made young people more aware of t
49、hreat“, Doherty says, recent polling shows they still remain “less likely to link Islam to terrorism, and less likely to say that government should investigate threats at a cost of personal privacy“. There is “quite a consistent pattern here“, he says: “Young people tend to take a more liberal approach to issues around security and terrorism.“ MSo should the older generation worry? Stanley of the ACLU th
