1、大学英语六级（ 2013年 12月考试改革适用）模拟试卷 123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） He readily accepts the womans invitation. （ B） He doesnt think Susan will agree to go to the party. （ C） He wonders if he would decline the womans invitation. （ D） He has to ask for Susans opinion and then he can decide. （ A） He is too sympathetic towards her. （ B） He
3、should choose his own career. （ C） He will surely be a good doctor. （ D） He has decided to study medicine. （ A） Write an outline. （ B） Have a rehearsal. （ C） Meet his supervisor. （ D） Work at his office. （ A） She will change her job soon. （ B） She will have to accept a reduced salary. （ C） The boss
4、notified her that she would be fired. （ D） She always does the right thing. （ A） He didnt like it at all. （ B） He didnt think much of it. （ C） He liked some part of it. （ D） He enjoyed it as a whole. （ A） He definitely doesnt know the date. （ B） He is the only person who knows the date. （ C） He forg
5、ot the time when he handed in his assignments. （ D） The last assignment he handed in was not good. （ A） He cooks for the club members quite often. （ B） He wasnt careful when he was preparing food. （ C） He often fills the kitchen with tomatoes and chocolate. （ D） He doesnt like to prepare food for th
6、e club members. （ A） Skip the professors class. （ B） Talk with the violinist. （ C） Perform in a concert. （ D） Go to enjoy the concert. （ 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 wo
7、man had been ill. （ C） He couldnt decide on a topic for his paper. （ 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） Write a paper. （ B） Observe how bees build nests. （ C） Plan a
8、 family reunion. （ D） Visit his parents. （ A） A fairy tale. （ B） A detective story. （ C） A short poem. （ D） A love story. （ A） Seeking for imagination. （ B） Asking for advice on writing. （ C） Getting some raw materials for the writing. （ D） Asking for more time to complete the writing. （ A） To watch
9、 the jewelry store robbery. （ B） To buy some valuable jewelry. （ C） To collect materials for her story. （ D） To take some photographs. Section B （ A） Satisfying. （ B） Tough. （ C） Meaningless. （ D） Boring. （ A） Kathy persuaded her to do so. （ B） Zoe lost her job as a PR consultant. （ C） Zoe got tired
10、 of the city life. （ D） Zoe loved Wales more than London. （ A） Tiresome and troublesome. （ B） Romantic and peaceful. （ C） Mentally exhausting but healthy. （ D） Physically tiring but rewarding. （ A） A friend in need is a friend indeed. （ B） Kill two birds with one stone. （ C） A misfortune may turn ou
11、t a blessing. （ D） Where there is a will, there is a way. （ A） They are often exploited by the public. （ B） They are often considered lazy and dishonest. （ C） They are often offered jobs with high incomes. （ D） They are often employed as skilled and semi-skilled workers. （ A） They buy houses by them
12、selves. （ B） They receive houses from their parents. （ C） They have at least some experience of college. （ D） They have difficulty increasing their savings greatly. （ A） They are not their own bosses. （ B） They cannot earn much money. （ C） They are not interested in their jobs. （ D） They cannot rise
13、 in the ladder of success. （ A） He made good use of ideas from others. （ B） He produced the first car in the world. （ C） He knew how to improve auto parts. （ D） He invented the production line. （ A） To show off his driving skills. （ B） To draw public attention. （ C） To learn about new technology. （
14、D） To raise money for his new company. （ A） Starting more companies. （ B） Designing more car models. （ C） Producing cars for average customers. （ D） Building racing cars of simple design. Section C 26 The financial crisis that started in 2007 up to now is a global financial crisis triggered by a liq
15、uidity shortfall in the United States banking system. It【 B1】_the collapse of large financial institutions, the “bailout (救市资金 )“ of banks by national governments and downturns in stock markets around the world. It is considered by many economists to be the worst financial crisis since the Great Dep
16、ression of the 1930s. It【 B2】 _the failure of key businesses, declines in consumer wealth estimated in the trillions of US dollars, substantial financial commitments【 B3】_by governments, and a significant decline in economic activity. Many causes have been proposed, with varying weight assigned by e
17、xperts. Both market-based and regulatory solutions have been implemented or are under【 B4】 _, while significant risks remained for the world economy over the 20102011 periods. Although this economic period has been referred to as “the Great Depression,“ this same phrase has been used to refer to eve
18、ry recession of the several【 B5】 _decades. The collapse of a global housing bubble, which【 B6】 _in the US in 2006, damages financial institutions globally. Questions regarding bank solvency (偿付能力 ), declines in credit availability, and damaged investor confidence【 B7】 _global stock markets, where se
19、curities suffered large losses during the late 2008 and early 2009. Economies【 B8】 _slowed during this period as credit tightened and international trade declined. Critics argued that credit rating agencies and investors failed to【 B9】 _price the risk involved with mortgage-related financial product
20、s, and that governments did not adjust their regulatory practices to address 21st-century financial markets. Governments and central banks responded with【 B10】_monetary policy expansion and institutional bailouts. 27 【 B1】 28 【 B2】 29 【 B3】 30 【 B4】 31 【 B5】 32 【 B6】 33 【 B7】 34 【 B8】 35 【 B9】 36 【
21、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, but colour also probably【 C2】_our instincts. Out psyche (心智 ) reacts in
22、 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, darkness and light; their link with evil and good is likely the result of cul
23、ture. 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 regarded as cool colours, which seem more relaxing. Scientists have demo
24、nstrated 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 cooler than an orange, because it has blue in it, and the same violet might
25、 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) arises B) considered J) stimulating C) distinction K) arouses D) requi
26、re 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 Alcohol Pricing: Mulled WhinesA By day tourists flock to Plaza de Espa a in central Madrid to
27、snap photos beside the sculpture of Miguel de Cervantes, author of “Don Quixote“. By night a newer facet of Spanish culture is on display: loitering groups of young people downing plastic bottles of whisky and vodka mixed with Fanta Lemon. The ground is littered with empties. Nearby, three young men
28、 help a friend vomiting on the pavement.B Such carousing was once rare in Spain. A Mediterranean drinking culture prevailed in which alcohol was taken only with food. That is changing. In Spain and many other rich countries, alcohol intake is becoming a bigger problem for some groups. Overall, the g
29、lobal consumption of alcohol has been stable since 1990, according to the World Health Organisation. Around half of the planets population is teetotal. But those who drink alcohol do so more hazardously. Policymakers are looking for ways to address this. A new and much-watched experiment in Scotland
30、, for example, involves setting a minimum price for each unit of alcohol.C Individual consumption peaked in Spain in 1975 but young people are increasingly indulging in the botellon, (literally “big bottle“): drinking outdoors to get drunk. In France, another country with traditionally moderate drin
31、king patterns, a similar trend is emerging. In the past three years hospital admissions from alcohol abuse have risen 30% there, to 400,000 a year. Bingeing is so common that in July it gained an official name, beuverie express. Across much of the rich world, many people (not just the young) are dri
32、nking greater quantities in a single session.D Responsible drinkers pose little risk to others. But the growth in hazardous drinking habits has far-reaching implications. Deaths from the overuse of alcohol rose from 750,000 in 1990 to 2.5m in 2011, nearly 4% of all fatalities worldwide. Alcohol caus
33、es long-term ill-health, but even a single binge can end in hospital: in Britain, for example, such admissions doubled in 2003-10. It is not only drunks who suffer from their excess. Booze contributes to a third of all deaths on Europes roads each year and stokes abuse and violence. It features in a
34、lmost all public-order offences in Ireland; up to 80% of Australian police work is alcohol- and drug-related; across the European Union, it is linked to 65% of domestic violence and 40% of murders. When lower output and higher social costs are taken into account, alcohol costs Europe and America hun
35、dreds of billions a year, up to 1.5% of GDP by some estimates.E The industry has introduced some modest schemes to encourage responsible drinking. Governments have stepped up education campaigns; most restrict the sale of alcohol in some regard, by licensing premises, setting opening hours and banni
36、ng purchases by children. But all that is largely outweighed by another factor: health campaigners say that in many countries booze is simply too cheap.F Increasingly alcohol is drunk at home, rather than in bars or restaurants, and is often deeply discounted. In Britain and Ireland supermarkets fre
37、quently sell drinks at or below cost, to lure in customers: cheap strong cider means a Scotsman can reach his recommended weekly drinking limit of 21 units (210ml of pure alcohol) for just 4.62 ($7.50); an Irishwoman can buy her 14 units for 6.30 ($8.70). The trend is spreading. Walmart, an American
38、 chain, recently started selling beer almost at cost.G The cheaper the liquor, the more people drink. That is not just bar-room wisdom. A 2009 paper in Addiction, a public health journal, reviewed 112 distinct studies of changes in alcohol taxes and found an unambiguous link. This suggested that a 1
39、0% price rise in prices would cut consumption by around 5%.H Two groups are particularly price sensitive. Heavy drinkers tend to trade down and seek out cheaper booze to maintain their intake. They drink at home and are likely to die early of alcohol-related illness. Such topers account for a large
40、share of consumption: in Scotland 80% of alcohol is drunk by 30% of boozers. A second category is young and underage merrymakers who often have low or minimal income. They cannot afford to drink as much when prices rise.I Most government initiatives on prices have been tentative. In 1998 Germany int
41、roduced a so-called “apple-juice law“: in places where booze is consumed, at least one alcohol-free beverage must cost less than the cheapest alcoholic one. This does not deal with domestic consumption, though, which accounts for most hazardous drinking. In 2014 Britain will introduce a ban on selli
42、ng alcohol at below cost price, but this will affect less than 1% of all booze on sale, according to the Sheffield Alcohol Research Group, a British academic consortium. Alcohol duties in some tax-thirsty European countries have been rising for a decade but wine and cider are both taxed by volume, n
43、ot just strength. That means a sweet wine with 6% alcohol bears the same tax as a risling with 10%.J More convincing are the efforts of several Canadian provinces, which have a floor price for a unit of each type of alcohol: the stronger a drink, the more it costs. When this policy was introduced in
44、 British Columbia in 2002, with an average 10% price increase, an immediate, substantial and significant reduction in wholly alcohol-attributable deaths followed, says Tim Stockwell of the provinces University of Victoria. The longer-term effect is striking too. Over the 2002-09 period, figures show
45、 a 32% drop in such deaths. In Saskatchewan a similar price rise in 2010 was associated with an 8.4% drop in drinking.K Scotland is raising the bar. In May 2012 its devolved parliament passed an ambitious bill to introduce a minimum unit price of 50p. This would affect the price of 60% of booze on s
46、ale: a 70cl bottle of Tesco Value Vodka would rise by around 4.50, to around 13, but classy Smirnoff by only 13p, according to Scottish government calculations. The Scotch Whisky Association (SWA), a trade body, has challenged the legislation, which was due to come into force in 2013. It would breac
47、h European law and could affect exports, says its spokeswoman, Rosemary Gallagher. The SWA lost the case in Scotlands highest civil court, but its appeal will be heard in February. If it loses again, it may appeal to London or to Europe.L Five continental wine-producing nations have joined the fight
48、 against Scotlands law. Bulgaria, France, Italy, Portugal and Spain say it is illegal and could hurt their own drinks industries. Cheap plonk (mostly foreign) would suffer more than pricey whisky (mostly domestic), they say.M What happens in Scotland will affect policy elsewhere; other governments a
49、re watching the legal battle with interest. One house of the Swiss parliament has already voted for a minimum price though the other voted against. New Zealand is considering a bill. The British government pulled back from an earlier plan to introduce a nationwide floor price but may reconsider its policy if Scotlands proves successful; some English councils are trying to introduce minimum pricing rules locally
