1、大学英语六级（ 2013年 12月考试改革适用）模拟试卷 121及答案与解析 一、 Part I Writing 1 For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay commenting on the remark “When you blame others, you give up your power to change. “ You can cite examples to illustrate your point. You should write at least 150 words but no more
2、than 200 words. Section A （ A） The man is not suitable for the position. （ B） The job has been given to someone else. （ C） Theres no vacancy for teaching assistant. （ D） She hasnt received the mans application. （ A） He left it at the airport. （ B） He enjoyed using it. （ C） He lost it on his trip. （
3、D） He left it in his friends car. （ A） She has bread every morning. （ B） She has eggs and milk every morning. （ C） She has a lot to eat for breakfast. （ D） She does not know what to eat for breakfast. （ A） The tickets will sell out quickly. （ B） There will be extra tickets at the rock concert. （ C）
4、The rock concert will probably be rescheduled. （ D） Each person will be allowed to buy only one ticket. （ A） At a bookstore. （ B） At the dentists. （ C） In a restaurant. （ D） In the library. （ A） Tom isnt good at singing. （ B） Tom is advised not to talk much. （ C） Tom just had a surgery on his throat
5、. （ D） Tom has lost his tongue. （ A） To cancel the meeting. （ B） To meet her in the auditorium. （ C） To reserve a large room for the meeting. （ D） To schedule the meeting for a different time. （ A） To change the shoes for another size. （ B） To change the shoes for another style. （ C） To return the s
6、hoes and get the refund. （ D） To change the shoes for a different color. （ A） Theyre cousins. （ B） Theyre lab partners. （ C） Theyre classmates. （ D） Theyre roommates. （ A） He hadnt heard from his family for a while. （ B） He thought the woman had been ill. （ C） He couldnt decide on a topic for his pa
7、per. （ D） He thought his paper was late. （ A） To identify kinds of honey. （ B） To identify relatives. （ C） To find their way back to the nest. （ D） To locate plant fibers. （ A） It lasted for four weeks. （ B） It started from Pittsburg. （ C） It ended in Mongolia. （ D） It took different transportation
8、tools. （ A） There were cows and sheep everywhere. （ B） There were many trees in Siberia. （ C） He saw a large area of desert. （ D） He saw nothing except wild camels in Mongolia. （ A） He brought food with him when he got on the train. （ B） He bought food from the local people on the train. （ C） He bou
9、ght food sold on the platform. （ D） He ate in the dining cart of the train. （ A） He will visit Russia next year. （ B） He will take a luxurious train next time. （ C） He wont go to Russia in future. （ D） He will wait a few years to visit Russia again. Section B （ A） Development of the National Flag （
10、B） Power of the National Flag （ C） Types of Flags （ D） Uses of Flags （ A） They could tell wind direction. （ B） They could bring good luck to fighters. （ C） They were handed down by the ancestors. （ D） They were believed to stand for natural forces. （ A） He knows when it was sent to Europe. （ B） He b
11、elieves it was made in Egypt. （ C） He thinks it came from China. （ D） He doubts where it started. （ A） Having a comfortable bed. （ B） Going to bed early. （ C） Doing some reading before sleep. （ D） Having a dark shade. （ A） Pressure from work does nothing to bad sleep. （ B） Too much TV-watching knock
12、s 46 minutes off a nights sleep. （ C） Lack of physical work is one major reason for sleeplessness. （ D） Badly-designed office may be crucial to sleep loss. （ A） It maintains the regular sleep pattern. （ B） It burns out the extra energy. （ C） It keeps people in good moods. （ D） It helps produce the h
13、ealthy chemicals. （ A） Wavelength. （ B） Lightness. （ C） Color. （ D） The number of sources. （ A） It brings about the generation gap. （ B） It is very careful about peoples privacy. （ C） It lists the telephone numbers of your friends. （ D） It encourages you to list your personal information. （ A） MySpa
14、ce often holds parents meetings. （ B） MySpace is quite popular with parents. （ C） MySpace has become a top issue troubling parents. （ D） Parents have lots of questions about MySpace. （ A） Trouble-makers can easily approach their children through the site. （ B） They think MySpace has a bad influence
15、on their children. （ C） They dont want to pay so much money for MySpace. （ D） It takes up too much of their childrens spare time. Section C 26 Individuals differ greatly in the degree in which culture shock affects them. Although it is not common, there are individuals who cannot live in foreign cou
16、ntries. However, those who have seen people go through shock and on to a satisfactory adjustment can【 B1】 _steps in the process. During the first stage, most individuals are【 B2】 _by the new. They stay in hotels and【 B3】_nationals who speak their language and are polite and【 B4】 _to foreigners. This
17、 honeymoon stage may last from a few days or weeks to six months, depending on circumstances. If one is very important, he or she will be shown the places, will be【 B5】 _and petted, and in a press interview will speak glowingly about goodwill and international friendship. But this mentality does not
18、【 B6】 _last if the foreign visitor remains abroad and has seriously to cope with real conditions of life. It is then that the second stage begins,【 B7】 _by a hostile and aggressive attitude towards the host country. This hostility evidently grows out of the host country. This hostility evidently gro
19、ws out of the【 B8】 _difficulty which the visitor experiences in the process of adjustment. There are house troubles, transportation troubles, shopping troubles, and the fact that people in the host country are largely【 B9】 _all these troubles. They help, but they dont understand your great concern o
20、ver these difficulties. Therefore, they must be unsympathetic and【 B10】 _you and your worries .The result, you just dont like them. You become aggressive; you band together with others from your country and criticize the host country. But this criticism is not an objective appraisal. 27 【 B1】 28 【 B
21、2】 29 【 B3】 30 【 B4】 31 【 B5】 32 【 B6】 33 【 B7】 34 【 B8】 35 【 B9】 36 【 B10】 Section A 36 Although the enjoyment of colour is universal and colour theory has all kinds of names to it, colour remains a very emotional and subjective element. Our awareness of colour is【 C1】 _conditioned by our culture,
22、but colour also probably【 C2】_our instincts. Out psyche (心智 ) reacts in different ways to colours in part through subjective associations and in part through【 C3】 _conditioning, and the two are often hard to separate. Black and white, for example,【 C4】 _us intuitively (直觉的 ) of night and day, darkne
23、ss and light; their link with evil and good is likely the result of culture. There exists a universal【 C5】 _to feel that some colours are warm whereas other colours are cool. Colours that are near red on the colour wheel (色轮 ) are【 C6】_warm colours which seem more【 C7】 _; and colours near blue are r
24、egarded as cool colours, which seem more relaxing. Scientists have demonstrated that exposure to red light increases the heartbeat and that【 C8】 _to blue light slows it down. For artists the appointment of warm and cool depends on the【 C9】_relationship between any two colours. A violet might be cool
25、er than an orange, because it has blue in it, and the same violet might be warmer than green, because it has red in it. The warm-cool【 C10】 _helps to create exciting colour contrasts because warm colours seem warmer next to cool colours and cool colours seem cooler next to warm colours. A) mostly I)
26、 arises B) considered J) stimulating C) distinction K) arouses D) require L) tendency E) exposure M) partially F) cultural N) remind G) regarded O) contrasting H) universal 37 【 C1】 38 【 C2】 39 【 C3】 40 【 C4】 41 【 C5】 42 【 C6】 43 【 C7】 44 【 C8】 45 【 C9】 46 【 C10】 Section B 46 Getting into the Ivies
27、A Ask just about any high school senior or junior or their parents and theyll tell you that getting into a selective college is harder than it used to be. Theyre right about that. But the reasons for the newfound difficulty are not well understood. B Population growth plays a role, but the number of
28、 teenagers is not too much higher than it was 30 years ago, when the youngest baby boomers were still applying to college. And while many more Americans attend college than in the past, most of the growth has occurred at colleges with relatively few resources and high dropout rates, which bear littl
29、e resemblance to the elites. C So what else is going on? One overlooked factor is that top colleges are admitting fewer American students than they did a generation ago. Colleges have globalized over that time, deliberately increasing the share of their student bodies that come from overseas and lea
30、ving fewer slots for applicants from the United States. For American teenagers, it is really harder to get into Harvard or Yale, Stanford, Brown, Boston College or many other elite colleges than it was when todays 40-year-olds or 50-year-olds were applying. The number of spots filled by American stu
31、dents at Harvard, after adjusting for the size of the teenage population nationwide, has dropped 27 percent since 1994. At Yale and Dartmouth, the decline has been 24 percent. At Carleton, its 22 percent. At Notre Dame and Princeton, it is 14 percent. D The frenzy (狂热 ) over admissions at top colleg
32、es can seem nonstop: the last-minute flurry (忙乱 ) as accepted students decide by May 1 where to attend, the Supreme Court battles over affirmative action (反歧视运动 ), the applications that some high school juniors have already begun writing. Yet the globalization of these colleges has been largely miss
33、ing from the discussion. E This globalization obviously brings some big benefits. It has exposed American students to perspectives that our proudly parochial (狭隘的 ) country often does not provide in childhood. “It would be a lesser education for them if they didnt get a chance to interact with some
34、international students,“ as William Fitzsimmons, the dean of admissions at Harvard since 1986, told me. The trend also fits with the long American tradition of luring some of the worlds most talented people here. Many international students who come for college never leave. Some of them found compan
35、ies or make other contributions to society. F Yet the way in which American colleges have globalized comes with costs, too. For one thing, the rise in foreign students has complicated the colleges stated efforts to make their classes more economically diverse. Foreign students often receive very lit
36、tle financial aid and tend to be from well-off families. For another thing, the countrys most selective colleges have effectively shrunk as far as American students are concerned, during the same span that many students and their parents are spending more time obsessing over getting into one. G Many
37、 numbers for individual colleges here come from Noodle, a company that provides advice on education decisions. I combined the numbers with census data on the number of 18- to 21-year-olds in the United States to examine what share of college-age Americans in four different years 1984, 1994, 2004 and
38、 2012 were attending various elite colleges. The share for any individual college is extremely small, of course. In 2012, about 33 out of every 100,000 American 18- to 21-year-olds were attending Harvard, down from 45 per 100,000 in 1994. These changes in the share tell you how much harder, or easie
39、r, admission has become for American teenagers on average. Between 1984 and 1994, it became easier at many colleges. The college-age population in this country fell during that time to 14.1 million in 1994 from 16.5 million in 1984, and the number of foreign students was relatively stable. H I atten
40、ded college in the early 1990s, and these numbers made me realize how easy the application process was for me and my peers, relative to almost any other time over the past half century. By the 2000s, the so-called echo boom in births had increased the number of college-age Americans. It reached 17.9
41、 million in 2012. The number of foreign students was growing at the same time. They now constitute close to 10 percent of the student body at many selective colleges, nearly double the level of the early 1990s. I The result is those big declines in the number of available seats for any given America
42、n teenager. Only colleges that have rapidly expanded their student bodies, like Columbia and the University of Chicago, have avoided the pattern. Obviously, the averages do not apply equally across the board. For students from the Northeast applying to elite colleges in the region, college admission
43、s have probably become even more difficult in recent decades than these statistics suggest. Not only have colleges globalized, they have also become less regional, admitting more students from states like North Carolina, Texas and Washington. J To many individual students, the newfound difficulty pr
44、obably doesnt cause much harm (even if it does cause anxiety). Over the last 20 years, several large colleges, like N.Y.U. and the University of Southern California, have improved markedly, effectively increasing the number of seats on elite campuses, Noodle has noted. And there is still scant (不足的
45、) evidence that the selectivity of the college one attends matters much. Students with similar SAT scores who attended colleges of different selectivity say, Penn and Penn State had statistically identical incomes in later years, according to research by the economists Stacy Dale and Alan Krueger. K
46、 There was one exception, though: low-income students, who did seem to benefit from attending an elite college. Maybe they benefited more from the social contacts they made there or were more likely to drop out if they did not attend a top college. Either way, the research stresses a problem with th
47、e way colleges have globalized. With only a handful of exceptions (including Harvard, Amherst, M.I.T. and Yale), colleges have not tried hard to recruit an economically diverse group of foreign students. The students instead have become a revenue source. Sarah Turner and Kelli Bird, University of Vi
48、rginia economists, have found that the enrollment of undergraduate foreign students fluctuates with the economic growth and exchange rates of those students countries of origin. The pattern is much stronger among undergraduates than doctoral students a sign that the undergraduates families are payin
49、g their way. L In recent years, college administrators have repeatedly claimed that enrolling a more economically diverse group of students is a top priority. But their actions dont always match their words. While some have made progress, the students at many remain overwhelmingly affluent. On average, about 15 percent of students at elite colleges receive Pell grants, which as a rule of thumb go to
