1、大学英语六级（ 2013年 12月考试改革适用）模拟试卷 10及答案与解析 一、 Part I Writing 1 For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay based on the following drawing. In your essay, you should first describe the drawing and interpret its meanings, and then give your comment on it. You should write at least 150 words
2、 but no more than 200 words. Write your essay on Answer Sheet I. Section A （ A） He likes traveling around. （ B） He is tired of sticking in one place. （ C） He knows where the grass is the greenest. （ D） He always thinks there might be a better place. （ A） Businessman and customer. （ B） Father and dau
3、ghter. （ C） Interviewer and interviewee. （ D） Consultant and client. （ A） The womans new house. （ B） The womans story. （ C） The mans experience. （ D） The mans daughter. （ A） He went to the lecture for another reason. （ B） The lecture yesterday was not interesting. （ C） He is interested in behavior m
4、odification. （ D） The lecture was given by his professor. （ A） The man saw a horror movie. （ B） The man likes movies very much. （ C） The woman doesnt like theater. （ D） The woman had frightening dreams. （ A） Jane is not her roommate any more. （ B） Jane is not a college student now. （ C） Jane is a wo
5、rkaholic. （ D） Jane has moved to the newspaper office. （ A） Watch a match. （ B） Visit friends. （ C） Get some food. （ D） Play football. （ A） Do business. （ B） Sell something half price. （ C） Go shopping. （ D） Drink a cup of coffee. （ A） Patrolling the streets. （ B） Doing undercover work. （ C） Doing d
6、etective work. （ D） Supervising investigations. （ A） The fear of the unknown stresses him out. （ B） He has to walk from moment to moment. （ C） He feels bored when patrolling at night. （ D） He must insure the security and safety of citizens. （ A） Be gentle to the victims and children. （ B） Be conscio
7、us of the surroundings. （ C） Stops someone for a traffic violation. （ D） Shoot the suspects in the arms or legs. （ A） They are organized by foreign students. （ B） They are open for all students. （ C） They are about experience sharing. （ D） They are online activities. （ A） Visit a local family. （ B）
8、Live with a local family. （ C） Visit other foreign students. （ D） Live with other foreign students. （ A） Disinterested. （ B） Confused. （ C） Indifferent. （ D） Enthusiastic. （ A） Go to the center and talk to someone. （ B） Try to make some local friends. （ C） Go out and know the city. （ D） Go out and h
9、ave some coffee with her. Section B （ A） They are very frightening and powerful. （ B） They are interested in tornadoes. （ C） They all work very hard. （ D） They dont know why tornadoes occur. （ A） Where dry and humid air masses meet. （ B） Where the air becomes warm and humid. （ C） When thunderstorms
10、or tornadoes occur. （ D） When the air rises very rapidly. （ A） It will remain the same. （ B） Its air will be sucked up. （ C） It will explode outward. （ D） It will move a little. （ A） 33. （ B） 44. （ C） 433 （ D） 443 （ A） A place with a heavy rain. （ B） A town with a sunny day. （ C） A beautiful summer
11、resort. （ D） An interesting advertisement. （ A） She didnt like the job any more. （ B） She made a mistake in the report. （ C） She was criticized for her clothes. （ D） Her boss often found faults with her. （ A） Every time they watch TV. （ B） When they make mistakes. （ C） When theyre going on holiday.
12、（ D） When they meet forecasters. （ A） It is the most popular music in America. （ B） It is associated with New York City theaters. （ C） It became popular in the 20th century. （ D） It derived from African religious and folk music. （ A） Students in high school. （ B） The general public. （ C） Musicians a
13、nd older jazz lovers. （ D） Dancers and pop singers. （ A） The relationship between all the characters. （ B） The background of the story and the feelings of characters. （ C） The mood and sufferings of the writer. （ D） The fair ladies and the story of western life. Section C 26 Today, more and more peo
14、ple in the United States are using credit cards instead of money to buy the things they need. Almost any one who has a【 B1】 _income and a continuous work record can【 B2】 _a credit card. There are many credit cards【 B3】 _: American Express, VISA, and Master Charge are some of the most popular. If you
15、 have a credit card, you can buy a car, eat a dinner, take a trip, and even get a haircut by charging the cost to your【 B4】 _. In this way, you can pay for【 B5】_a month later, without any extra charge. Or you may choose to make your payments over several months and pay only part of the total amount
16、each month. If you do this, the credit company, or the bank that sponsors the credit card, will add a small【 B6】 _to your total bill. This is very convenient for the customer. With the credit card in your wallet or purse, you dont have to carry much cash and worry about【 B7】_through carelessness or
17、theft. The card user only has to worry about paying the final bill. This, of course, can be a problem, if you charge more than you can pay for. In the recent years, credit cards also【 B8】 _in China. The Great Wall credit card and the Peony(牡丹 )credit card are the pioneer cards sponsored by the Bank
18、of China and the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China,【 B9】 _. Many of us believe that it will only be a matter of time before credit cards【 B10】_cash and checks for both individuals and businesses. 27 【 B1】 28 【 B2】 29 【 B3】 30 【 B4】 31 【 B5】 32 【 B6】 33 【 B7】 34 【 B8】 35 【 B9】 36 【 B10】 Section
19、 A 36 The U.S. dollar was supposed to be at the end of its rope. Kicking the bucket. Well, maybe not. The dollar continues to【 C1】 _gloom-and-doom predictions. After a swoon(低迷 )last year, the dollar is again enjoying a major rally. The U.S. dollar index, which【 C2】 _the dollars value against other
20、major currencies, is just off an eight-month high. The main reason behind the dollars【 C3】 _is actually no real surprise at all. There is no alternative able to replace the dollar as the worlds No.1 currency. Sure, the U.S. budget deficit is expanding, the governments debt is increasing, and Wall St
21、reet is still【 C4】 _itself. But the dollar remains the prettiest of a flock of ugly ducklings. Is any other major industrialized economy【 C5】 _better off than the U.S.? Not really. Just, about the【 C6】 _developed world is suffering with the same problems. Thats why when investors get nervous, they s
22、till rush to the good old dollar. The dollar wins because no one else is really in the game. The euro has been exposed as a【 C7】 _. Only a few months ago, economists truly believed the euro could【 C8】 _the dollar as the top reserve currency. Now experts are questioning if the euro has a future at al
23、l. The Greek debt crisis has【 C9】_that the euro is only as strong as its weakest link. And after the euro, where do global investors turn? The yen? Japans economy, with higher government debt and crushing deflation(通货紧缩 ), has even deeper structural problems than Americas. Maybe over the next 20 or
24、30 years, the dollar will slowly lose the dominant status it holds today. That process,【 C10】 _, could well be driven by the appearance of new rivals. A)absolute I)recovery B)fraud J)rival C)relieving K)slump D)however L)particularly E)concise M)measures F)revealed N)partially G)defy Orepairing H)en
25、tire 37 【 C1】 38 【 C2】 39 【 C3】 40 【 C4】 41 【 C5】 42 【 C6】 43 【 C7】 44 【 C8】 45 【 C9】 46 【 C10】 Section B 46 Signs: the Most Useful Thing We Pay No Attention to A Signage the kind we see on city streets, in airports, on highways, in hospital corridors is the most useful thing we pay no attention to.
26、 When it works well, it tells us where we are(as when an Interstate marker assures us were on the right highway)and it helps us to get where we want to go(as when an airport banner directs us to our gate). When it fails, we miss trains, were late to appointments, we spend hours pacing the indistingu
27、ishable floors of underground parking garages, muttering to ourselves in mounting frustration and fury. And in some cases, especially where automobiles are involved, the consequences of bad signage can be fatal. B Bad signs can send perfectly ordinary citizens into spirals of confusion. Take Richard
28、 Ankrom, a Los Angeles artist who thought the junction of the 110 freeway and the 5 freeway was badly marked. In 2001, he put on an outfit that looked like the ones Galtrans highway workers wore, climbed up onto a freeway gantry(信号架 ), and mounted an aluminum sign hed manufactured himself according
29、to state specifications. The sign stayed up for nine months without anyone noticing what hed done; when the story leaked to the press and Caltrans finally realized, the agency left the sign up for eight more years. C Or consider Leslie Gallery Dilworth, a Philadelphia architect who took a road trip
30、with her husband through Spain in the 1980s. Throughout the journey, theyd been amazed at the simplicity of the European road signs, which were easy to use even though neither of them spoke Spanish. Upon their return to Philly, they got lost on the way from the airport to their house, when a bad set
31、 of signs directed them to a local dump. Dilworth was so struck by her own citys inhospitality that she spent much of the next decade working with the city and local stakeholders improving Philadelphias sign systems. Today, shes the CEO of the Society for Environmental Graphic Design, the premier Am
32、erican professional group for sign designers. D Most people, when they think about it, can point to signs that have failed them: the hospital complex that felt like a labyrinth(迷宫 )or the exit they always almost miss. But the truth is that signage today is far better than its been at any other point
33、 in history. A century ago, sign design wasnt a profession to speak of; the signs that guided riders and pedestrians(there werent many drivers yet)tended to be informal. As the automobile took off, the world found it needed traffic engineers, and it was these men and women who were the first to thin
34、k seriously about sign systems. America put national standards for road signs in place in 1935. E But the developers of office buildings, shopping malls, and other pedestrian spaces were slow to follow suit. Developers tended to assume that architects would take care of sign design, and many archite
35、cts would leave it up to tenants. As a result, security guards and secretaries were often the ones to help orient the lost. F The 1970s saw the first stirrings of revolution in the sign world. Thats when the SEGD was founded, and its when designers first began to seriously study how best to orient p
36、eople and guide them through space. Their work was prompted in part by Americas great urban thinkers: people like Kevin Lynch and Jane Jacobs, who argued that spaces should be designed not to fulfill the grand visions of architects but with humble human uses in mind. The field earned a name “wayfind
37、ing,“ a Lynch coinageand today, people in the business call themselves wayfinding designers and talk about places that have “good wayfinding“ or “terrible wayfinding.“ By the 1980s and 90s, wayfinding advocates were involved in more development projects, but dispatches from the era have a slightly i
38、ndignant air; designers of environmental graphics still often found themselves fighting for a place at the table. During the last 10 years, however, wayfinding has come into its own. More requests for proposals for major building initiatives now require bidders to explain how theyll handle wayfindin
39、g design. Many cities have installed wayfinding systems like the one Dilworth helped build in Philadelphia. New airports and train stations are routinely built with good navigation in mind. G Why has there been such growth in the field? One cause is the remarkable pace of economic development over t
40、he past half century. Developed countries have been building increasingly complicated spaces shopping malls, convention centers, multi-terminal airports that require good navigation systems in order for people to use them. In addition, businesses and municipalities alike have realized that well-orie
41、nted people are calmer, happier, and more likely to spend money(and plan return visits)than people who are lost. Investing in a good wayfinding system has real financial rewards. H Another cause is our increasingly globalized planet. Much of the innovation in the sign world has been spurred by airpo
42、rts, places where people of all nationalities and tongues must move quickly, efficiently, and safely through huge spaces. For years, designers have been developing graphical symbols to help non-natives find the bathrooms, the baggage claims, and the currency exchange machines, and, in the process, t
43、heyve been inventing a global language, a kind of pictorial Esperanto(世界语 ). I A third cause is our societys increasing inclusiveness. The 1990 Americans With Disabilities Act was the first piece of national legislation to authorize the accessibility of privately managed public spaces like hotels an
44、d universities. And because the law deals with visual as well as physical impairment, its accessibility guidelines require that standards of legibility be maintained in directional signs; they evolved to specify everything from the size of fonts to the contrast between lettering and its background.
45、This development turned out to be as useful for the rest of us as it was for the legally blind. J Finally, theres the fact that we have all increasingly become experts of good design. Fifty years ago, design belonged to designers. But the advent of the personal computer introduced us all to fonts, l
46、ine spacing, and page layout, and machines from the photocopier to the iPhone have left us familiar with icons both clear and confusing. Navigating the Web has made us smarter about orienting ourselves in virtual space. As a result, when we see badly designed signs, we demand better. Joe Calderone,
47、a spokesman for the Long Island Railroad, notes that the agency is not wanting for feedback: “Our customers are not shy about telling us if things dont work.“ K Ironically, just as our signs have improved, weve seen the advent of something that makes us less dependent on them than ever before: satel
48、lite navigation. Our iPhones and the GPS systems in our cars orient us in relation not to fixed squares of metal on our roads but to orbiting wheels of technology in the sky. Designers are confident that well always need signs after all, you still need to know which street is Rogers when your car te
49、lls you to take it but folks in the satellite business arent so sure. By examining how signs have evolved and how they help us now, we can determine whether signages golden age is ending or just beginning. 47 The road signs in Spain worked well in showing directions. 48 A sign mounted onto a freeway gantry stayed up for quite a few years. 49 Traffic engineers were considered to be the first to think about sign sy
