1、大学英语六级（ 2013年 12月考试改革适用）模拟试卷 11及答案与解析 一、 Part I Writing 1 For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay entitled Haste Makes Waste by commenting on this saying. You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words. Write your essay on Answer Sheet 1. Section A （ A） He would l
2、ike to take Front Street. （ B） The radio announcer is always telling lies. （ C） The traffic in Front Street may be busy. （ D） They should trust the radio announcer. （ A） At the post office. （ B） At the shop. （ C） At the restaurant. （ D） At the bank. （ A） The mans condition now is not; suitable for e
3、xercise. （ B） The man is not qualified for football match. （ C） The mans leg was injured in the last football season. （ D） The mans football coach is not Michael now. （ A） She just made a decision. （ B） She is depressed. （ C） She likes the committee. （ D） She is glad. （ A） He can offer a much cheape
4、r price for this car. （ B） His annual savings are quite enough to buy this car. （ C） This car needs less petrol than many other cars. （ D） This car is more expensive than many other cars. （ A） The man will not go anywhere but London. （ B） The man will not spend his winter vacation in London. （ C） Th
5、e man wants to see the modern capital. （ D） The man will not have winter vacation this year. （ A） The forecast said it wouldnt rain. （ B） The weather was good at the beginning. （ C） He thought the forecast would change. （ D） He didnt notice the weather at all. （ A） To find a kind of good jogging sho
6、es. （ B） To run around the town. （ C） To try another way to buy the shoes. （ D） To order some catalogues. （ A） The one with the lowest price. （ B） The one from a famous maker. （ C） The one that is on sale. （ D） He doesnt care about the price. （ A） A digital watch with the date and time. （ B） A digit
7、al watch with yellow gold plating. （ C） A mechanical watch with a leather strap. （ D） A mechanical watch with a metal strap. （ A） The saleswoman writes words on the back of the watch for free. （ B） The man feels surprised that the shop can do him a special favor. （ C） The shop charges a little sum o
8、f money for this extra service. （ D） The saleswoman promises to finish writing the words in no time. （ A） Difficult to satisfy and full of demands. （ B） Polite but reluctant to spend money. （ C） Considerate, and loving his mother. （ D） Good at shopping but careless about money. （ A） Her neighbors so
9、n comes home late and wakes up her kids at night. （ B） Her neighbors often hold a party at home and make big noise. （ C） Her neighbors son keeps the radio in his car turned on all the night. （ D） Her neighbors have far too much pride and show unfriendliness. （ A） She is too weak to show her dissatis
10、faction. （ B） She is afraid of upsetting the relationship. （ C） Her family will move to a new place soon. （ D） Her communication skills are too poor. （ A） Give her neighbors a call and make her requests. （ B） Meet her neighbors and tell them her trouble. （ C） Report the incident to the police direct
11、ly. （ D） Keep silent until she cant bear them any more. Section B （ A） Traffic accidents. （ B） Radiation. （ C） Train travel. （ D） Air crash. （ A） When the sun is very active and explosions occur. （ B） . When it is less than 1,500 miles away from the earth. （ C） When bad weather occurs more frequentl
12、y. （ D） When there is less forest on the earth. （ A） They are too far away from the earth. （ B） Our skin is immune to the radiation. （ C） The ozonosphere protects us from it. （ D） The trees can absorb the radiation. （ A） It forces one to form pictures in the mind. （ B） It provides many interesting p
13、rograms. （ C） It teaches people how to imagine things. （ D） It shows vivid pictures to the listeners. （ A） It can improve ones listening skills. （ B） It gives immediate replies to the listeners. （ C） People can get more immediate information. （ D） People can listen to the programs for free. （ A） Peo
14、ple in radio programs are more active than in television. （ B） People can call the radio station and express opinions. （ C） Radio stations have more topics and fewer commercials. （ D） Radio stations always accept the opinions of listeners. （ A） The benefit of listening to radio programs. （ B） The ma
15、in disadvantages of televisions. （ C） The advantages of radio compared with television. （ D） The development of radio and television. （ A） Local economy condition. （ B） The size and location. （ C） The environment and facilities. （ D） The supply and demand. （ A） Spend all the savings of the family. （
16、 B） Ask for the help from friends and relatives. （ C） Borrow money from a bank to pay for it. （ D） Sell their old apartments. （ A） The landlord. （ B） The renters. （ C） The property company. （ D） The bank. Section C 26 Some students are not adequately prepared for college. Should we turn them away? D
17、eceive them? Or modify our product? Americans must【 B1】 _their ability and responsibility to continue to learn throughout their working lives and, although I hesitate to repeat a point so【 B2】 _made by others, they must also be taught a body of basic skills. Our industry does our nation no service b
18、y discarding unprepared students or by turning out【 B3】 _graduates. These people must be taught. If they are not yet ready to learn the lessons we have prepared, should we not【 B4】 _and expand those lessons? Here is yet another argument for offering the new first degree. It would provide a legitimat
19、e program for students who are not yet prepared to go for the【 B5】_degree. As our industry grows in responsibility,【 B6】 _, and productivity, should we not change our production schedule?【 B7】 _32 scattered attempts to change, the typical American academic schedule remains a relic of our past, yet w
20、e are no longer a nation of farmers; we【 B8】 _have any reason to end the academic year in May or June. If universities are to realize their growing role in society and firmly grasp the【 B9】 _power that role implies, then we are going to have to operate six days a week, year round. We should go to【 B
21、10】 _operation because that is the least expensive way to teach more students per year. For many universities where teaching goes on five days a week for thirty weeks, capacity is constrained by the physical plant. 27 【 B1】 28 【 B2】 29 【 B3】 30 【 B4】 31 【 B5】 32 【 B6】 33 【 B7】 34 【 B8】 35 【 B9】 36 【
22、 B10】 Section A 36 The concept of obtaining fresh water from icebergs that are towed to populated areas and arid regions of the world was once treated as a joke more appropriate to cartoons than real life. But now it is being【 C1】 _quite seriously by many nations, especially since scientists have wa
23、rned that the human race will【 C2】 _its fresh water supply faster than it runs out of food. Glaciers are a possible【 C3】 _of fresh water that has been overlooked until recently. Three-quarters of the Earths fresh water supply is still tied up in glacial ice, a reservoir of【 C4】 _fresh water so immen
24、se that it could【 C5】 _all the rivers of the world for 1,000 years. Floating on the oceans every year are 7,659 trillion metric tons of ice encased in 10,000 icebergs that break away from the polar ice caps, more than ninety percent of them from Antarctica. Huge glaciers that【 C6】 _over the shallow
25、continental shelf give birth to icebergs throughout the year. Icebergs are not like sea ice, which is formed when the sea itself freezes, rather, they are formed【 C7】 _on land, breaking off when glaciers spread over the sea. As they drift away from the polar region, icebergs sometimes move mysteriou
26、sly in a direction【 C8】 _to the wind, pulled by subsurface currents. Because they melt more slowly than smaller pieces of ice, icebergs have been known to drift as far north as 35 degrees south of the equator in the Atlantic Ocean. To control them and【 C9】 _them to parts of the world where they are
27、needed would not be too difficult. Even if the icebergs lost half of their volume in towing, the water they could provide would be far cheaper than that produced by desalinization(脱盐 ), or【 C10】_salt from water. A)removing I)approximately B)stretch J)considered C)deriving K)similar D)entirely L)sour
28、ce E)untapped M)ensured F)resource N)sustain G)outgrow O)steer H)opposite 37 【 C1】 38 【 C2】 39 【 C3】 40 【 C4】 41 【 C5】 42 【 C6】 43 【 C7】 44 【 C8】 45 【 C9】 46 【 C10】 Section B 46 Can Tony Blair Save the World of Books? A At the beginning of A Journey, Tony Blair boasts that he has “the soul of a rebe
29、l“. Last week, he made good on that boast by conducting a gravity-defying act of literary presumptionpublishing a hardback of some 720 pages, priced at 25, tricked out with index, acknowledgments and 32 pages of photographic plates. B According to Cathy Rentzenbrink, manager of the Richmond Watersto
30、nes: “These sales are brilliant and really exciting. You dont often have customers almost breaking down the door to buy a book, but Blair is totally outselling Mandelson. Ive not seen anything this big since Harry Potter or Dan Brown. This looks like the Christmas book of the year.“ She adds: “Its v
31、ery rare for a hardback to outsell a future paperback, but this might be one of those exceptions.“ Rentzenbrink says she does not know its Amazon discount, or if theres a significant ebook and audiobook sale. What matters is that a fat hardback with a big print run is actually selling. C Go into any
32、 bookshop today and you will find the unmistakable evidence of a business in the midst of a collective nervous breakdown: hardbacks discounted at 50%; heaped tables of “3 for 2“; and other hints of the death of print: audiobooks and advertisements for the Sony Reader, or the Elonex touch screen, or
33、the Cybook Opus. This year, there are more than 20 competing e-readers. D Across the Atlantic, Blairs chunky memoir(回忆录 )will seem even more antique. The American reading public is adopting the ebook with the enthusiasm of a great consumer society. Wherever you go in the US, the electronic print of
34、the hand-held screen glows like fairytale magic. Ebook sales are soaring, accompanied by terrible predictions about the future of publishing. The picture is all the more disturbing because its so hard to interpret, with competing diagnoses. Are we in intensive care or the morgue(太平间 )? E Since 2000,
35、 the Anglo-American book business has been rocked by great disturbance. Google has digitised some 10 million titles. Barnes and Noble is for sale. Borders, bankrupt in the UK, clings on in the US. Here, Waterstones parent company, HMV, wants to sell. Amazons market share continues to soar. Asda, Tes
36、co and the supermarket chains are said to be draining the life out of independent bookselling. In the US, its claimed that ebooks are now outselling many hardbacks. By the end of this year, 10.3 million Americans are expected to own e-readers, buying an estimated 100m ebooks. F In the UK, electronic
37、 publishing lags behind the US, but many of the brightest publishing brains, notably Enhanced Editions, are looking hard at the potential of the book as application. Only a few people would dispute that its a matter of time before the ebook joins the iPod and the mobile phone as a vital component of
38、 the way we live. Ebooks, indeed, are already integral to the iPad and last week Amazon launched a sales campaign for its latest Kindle. Deplore this if you must, but be prepared: even the Oxford English Dictionary is now conceding that its third edition, 21 years in the making, will be published no
39、t on paper but online. G The 25 hardback of Blairs A Journey will certainly become a traditional bestseller. But many nervous industry observers are watching to see how many ebooks it sells. Within the book trade itself, all the main players(agents, editors, booksellers)have converted to e-reading,
40、and now some authors are exploring the potential of the new technology. Stephen Fry is said to be developing a revolutionary application for his forthcoming autobiography. Yet many traditional publishers privately say that printed books will continue to be manufactured, bought and cherished. H The b
41、uzz surrounding last weeks Kindle launch raises the possibility that the book is about to become swallowed up by an “iPod moment“ for literature, similar to the transformation wrought on the music industry by downloading. Who knows? Heres where gazing into the crystal ball for the biggest IT revolut
42、ion in 500 years gets really difficult. I Tim Waterstone, who has had an unusual sense of what the British book buyer wants, remains sceptical. He concedes that the reference book market(dictionaries, encyclopedias)is “certain to go online“. But what about fiction? Biography? Poetry? Childrens books
43、? “Personally,“ he says, “I dont think so.“ J Like many great booksellers, Waterstone is a cultural conservative. As he talks, he spots a paperback classic on his 17-year-old daughters bookshelves, and launches into the old defence of ink and paper. “Thats incredible value,“ says Waterstone. “Shes a
44、 child of the digital age and shes still buying books.“ So whats the future? A long pause. “The only honest thing to say is: I really dont know.“ K Another innovator, the writer Will Selfwhose Walking to Hollywood, an introduction for the movie business, has just been publishedis in no doubt. “Ive u
45、nknowingly acquired a Kindle,“ says Self, “and I find that everything I read on it, especially Stieg Larsson, becomes nonsense. Im inclined to blame the technology. With no physical similarity I think the text loses its weight.“ Self confesses to being unsure how much of his own backlist is availabl
46、e in ebook form. L Selfs response to the e-reader is echoed on the shop floor of Waterstones. Next to a discreet sign advertising “reading accessories“ I found Elizabeth Squires, a mother of two, hesitated to buy Blair. This would be a departure for her because she buys “20 or 30 new books a year, a
47、ll paperback, all fiction“. Half of these she gets from Amazon. Audiobooks? “Strictly for the kids.“ An ebook? “No. Why should I? I havent got anything to read it on.“ Is she tempted? “Ive been thinking about buying the Kindle, but it would never replace my book collection. Book lovers will always l
48、ove books. Theres something irreplaceable about a book. It gives you a physical, even an aesthetic, experience. For me, its an emotional thing. My books are my friends. Theres something about having a book in bed, about holding it, even smelling it, that I could never get from an e-reader. Isnt the
49、first thing you do when you move house, to rearrange your books?“ M Elsewhere, the rearrangement of the book trade continues quickly. Last weeks New York Times Book Review contained no fewer than three separate items about the death of print. But paradoxically, the age of digitisation is both a golden age of ink and a boom time for narrative, in many media, on countless “platforms“, from blogs, audiobooks
