1、大学英语六级（ 2013年 12月考试改革适用）模拟试卷 128及答案与解析 一、 Part I Writing 1 According to a recent survey, in the last few years, quite a number of young people have chosen to quit their demanding but highly-paid jobs because of high stress. For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay entitled Is Stre
2、ss a Bad Thing? You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words. Write your essay on Answer Sheet 1. Section A （ A） John can share the magazine with her. （ B） She wants to borrow Johns card. （ C） Shell let John use the journal first. （ D） John should find another copy for himself. （ A
3、） She lost a lot of weight in two years. （ B） She stopped exercising two years ago. （ C） She had a unique way of staying healthy. （ D） She was never persistent in anything she did. （ A） Dicks trousers dont match his jacket. （ B） Dick looks funny in that yellow jacket. （ C） The color of Dicks jacket
4、is too dark. （ D） Dick has bad taste in clothes. （ A） The temperature is not as high as the man claims. （ B） The room will get cool if the man opens the windows. （ C） She is following instructions not to use the air-conditioning. （ D） She is afraid the new epidemic SARS will soon spread all over tow
5、n. （ A） The man will go in for business fight after high school. （ B） The woman is not happy with the mans decision. （ C） The man wants to be a business manager. （ D） The woman is working in a kindergarten. （ A） The man has an enormous amount of work to do. （ B） The man has made plans for his vacati
6、on. （ C） The manll take work with him on his vacation. （ D） Work stacked up during the mans last vacation. （ A） To find a better science journal in the library. （ B） Not to miss any chance to collect useful information. （ C） To buy the latest issue of the magazine. （ D） Not to subscribe to the journ
7、al. （ A） He was satisfied with the service on the ship. （ B） It was the first time he had been abroad. （ C） He had never been on a warship. （ D） He has been on the warship before. （ A） At a party. （ B） At school. （ C） At a friends house. （ D） In the classroom. （ A） Sharon. （ B） Susan. （ C） Sherry. （
8、 D） Ben. （ A） Marketing. （ B） International Business. （ C） Accounting. （ D） Education. （ A） Yes. （ B） No. （ C） Hard to say. （ D） Not mentioned. （ A） She bought a new car. （ B） She was injured in an accident. （ C） She went out with David. （ D） She had a little accident. （ A） She got engaged. （ B） She
9、 had a party. （ C） She got married. （ D） She was hurt. （ A） Because church wedding is romantic. （ B） Because Diana is a catholic. （ C） Because her parents ask her to do so. （ D） Because David likes church wedding. Section B （ A） Talking about weather. （ B） Talking about personal incomes. （ C） Talkin
10、g about sports. （ D） Talking about recent news. （ A） Openly displaying their anger. （ B） Making direct criticism. （ C） Expressing their dissatisfaction with politeness. （ D） Yelling loudly. （ A） Keeping their opinion to themselves. （ B） Remaining silent. （ C） Expressing their opinion in public. （ D）
11、 Only smile. （ A） Community honor. （ B） Individuality. （ C） Collective success. （ D） Politeness. （ A） Wearing civil clothes inspire no trust. （ B） Uniforms can increase peoples faith in skill. （ C） Civil clothes make people lose professional identity. （ D） Uniforms make people more professional than
12、 civil clothes. （ A） Uniforms save civil clothes. （ B） Uniforms make people look better. （ C） Uniforms save on laundry bills. （ D） Uniforms are more durable and comfortable. （ A） They should stick with uniforms until retirement. （ B） They should think and act like others. （ C） They should not choose
13、 occupations with uniforms. （ D） They should choose their occupations as they wish. （ A） Radio waves can not be detected without a radio receiver. （ B） Radio waves can not be seen or heard. （ C） Radio waves are harmless to human being. （ D） Radio waves are all around us. （ A） Radiation is at a very
14、high level. （ B） Radiation is at a very low level. （ C） The dead cells are replaced by healthy cells. （ D） The cells replace themselves in a deformed way. （ A） To make clear the aftermath of nuclear radiation. （ B） To explain why radiation has some mystery. （ C） To compare the nuclear radiation and
15、the radio waves. （ D） To warn the readers against the nuclear radiation. Section C 26 Some people believe that you have to be a special kind of person to sell a product. But although it is clear that a successful salesman does need special talents, and a【 B1】_personality, many of the skills he uses
16、are used by us all: we build and【 B2】_relationships with different kinds of people, and we listen to and【 B3】_what they tell us and dont just enjoy the sound of our own【 B4】 _. A firm may depend on their own sales team and on the salesmanship of their distributors, wholesalers or【 B5】 _. But any com
17、pany needs to establish a personal relationship with its major clients(key accounts)and potential customers【 B6】_It is often said that people do business with people. A firm doesnt just【 B7】_impersonally with another firm, but a person in the buying department receives personal visits from people【 B
18、8】 _the firms suppliers on a regular basis or in the case of department stores or chain stores, a team of buyers may travel around visiting suppliers. Keeping sales people “on the road“ is much more expensive than employing them to work in the office and much of their time is spent unproductively tr
19、aveling. Telephone selling may use this time more productively, but a【 B9】 _is much more effective. Companies involved in the export trade often have a separate export sales force, whose travel and【 B10】 _may be very high. Servicing overseas customers may consequently often be done by phone, telex o
20、r letter and personal visits may be infrequent. Many firms appoint an overseas agent or distributor whose own sales force takes over responsibility for selling their products in another country. 27 【 B1】 28 【 B2】 29 【 B3】 30 【 B4】 31 【 B5】 32 【 B6】 33 【 B7】 34 【 B8】 35 【 B9】 36 【 B10】 Section A 36 T
21、he mayor of County Club Hills helped arrest two men Wednesday night suspected in the random shooting a 15-year-old boy as he was leaving a basketball game at Hillcrest High School. County Club Hills Mayor Dwight Welch, who is also a【 C1】 _police officer, said he【 C2】 _up around 9:30 p. m. to the rea
22、r parking lot of the high school, 17401 Pulaski Td., after hearing radio【 C3】 _of someone firing several shots at crowds leaving the game between Hillcrest and Rich Central High School. “It was pretty【 C4】 _because no one knew where the shots were coming from,“ Welch said later in a telephone【 C5】 _
23、from his home. “Within five minutes of being there we got a report that a student was shot.“ Welch and on-duty police Lt. Will Garrison found a 15-year-old Hillcrest student had suffered a graze【 C6】 _to the arm. They boy was taken in good condition to Advocate South Suburban Hospital in Hazel Crest
24、, said town spokeswoman Wanda Comein. No one else was hit. In Welchs police car, they began【 C7】 _the area for a white jeep that had fled the scene south on Winston Drive following the shooting, the mayor said. “We stayed back and turned around and waited for them. Then we saw the suspects car comin
25、g head-on,“ Welch said. “We curbed their【 C8】 _. We came close to crashing.“ Once the car was stopped, Welch and the lieutenant got out of their vehicle and drew their service weapons,【 C9】 _the two occupants out of their vehicle, he said. Inside, they found a revolver next to an empty bottle of【 C1
26、0】 _. according to Welch. A)wound B)journalists C)certified D)ordering E)chaotic F)scouring G)employer H)liquor I)vehicle J)employee K)lie down L)pulled M)reports N)interview O)suspect 37 【 C1】 38 【 C2】 39 【 C3】 40 【 C4】 41 【 C5】 42 【 C6】 43 【 C7】 44 【 C8】 45 【 C9】 46 【 C10】 Section B 46 Who Killed
27、the Sea Lions? A)Sitting in the turbulent(汹涌的 )waters below the Bonneville Dam on the Columbia River, east of Portland, Oregon, 15-foot-square floating platforms surrounded by 8-foot-high fencing lay in wait, designed to trap sea lions. Last Saturday night, as usual, the traps set off by hand were o
28、pen; fish and game representatives had permission to capture 61 California sea lions and had to wait until one of them was inside the cages. When biologists next checked the traps, around 11:30 Sunday morning, two were closed, six sea lions were dead, and the authorities had a fantastic detective st
29、ory on their hands. B)Federal and state officials descended on Bonneville, initially operating under the assumption that someone had shot the marine mammals with a high-powered rifle at close range. But Wednesday the mystery deepened: investigators finally determined that the animals were not killed
30、 by gunfire. Only one sea lion had small new wounds, which were consistent with bite marks, and the metal fragments found in soft tissue near the neck of two of the other animals could have been from old wounds. Federal officials now say theyre not even sure there were humans involved in the deaths,
31、 or whether the traps might have sprung by accident. What happened at Bonneville last weekend seems less and less clear. C)Fueling the mystery is the hatred toward sea lions that is obvious among salmon(鲑鱼 )fishermen in the Pacific Northwest these days. The salmon migration decreased drastically thi
32、s year, causing officials to cut short the fishing season. In that climate, fishermen are none too favorably disposed to the population of California sea lions that regularly pass through the waters downstream of Bonneville Dam in the hope of feasting on a tasty Chinook. Steps were taken to clear th
33、e troublesome sea lions out. After nonfatal measures to ward off the persistent marine mammals proved ineffective, the states of Washington, Oregon and Idaho requested and were granted authority to remove the 61 most troublesome California sea lions-fatally, if necessary. Though the Humane Society o
34、f the United States filed suit challenging the states move, and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals stayed any action to kill the creatures, the states began to trap some of the sea lions in preparation for a transplant to zoos and marine parks where they would be offered them a new home. Authorities
35、 put the trapping program on hold on Sunday. D)On Tuesday the Humane Society announced that it had reached a compromise with the government: in exchange for dropping its appeal against part of the lawsuit, the feds and states would suspend all trapping until at least next February. E)Investigators r
36、efuse to say anything about how theyre going about solving the puzzle. Army Corps of Engineers spokesman Matt Rabe said his agency had turned over documents and possibly videotapes from security cameras at the scene, but Brian Gorman, spokesman for the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration,
37、said Friday that no video cameras had been trained on the traps. Bonnevilles “critical features“the spillway(泄洪道 ), powerhouses and fish laddershadnt been compromised, Rabe said. But the government will be reviewing its security measures in the wake of the incident to see if improvements are needed.
38、 F)Gorman said NOAA investigators will try to determine how the gates were opened and are now awaiting tissue samples from the dead animals, which will indicate whether they were somehow poisoned though its not at all clear how that could have happened, he said. G)If foul play was involved, the crim
39、inals figured out a way to slip past security at a federally controlled dam that has taken extra safety precautions(预防 )as a result of 9/11. If they gained access to the traps by land, they would have had to sneak around a gate manned by a guard. If they came by boat, theyd have had to sail the turb
40、ulent waters coming off the dam itself, which would require skilled seamanship. “We have two mysteries,“ Gorman said. “How did the animals die, and how did the gates get closed?“ H)Investigators havent ruled out some natural event or accident. One theory is that a drop in water levels below the dam
41、could have put enough tension on the ropes to get disturbed group of trapped sea lions on one platform would likely have caused those on the other to jump into the water. Its possible that, once trapped, the sea lions could have overheated. But it wasnt a particularly hot day, Gorman said, and sea l
42、ions are known to spend several hours in the hot sun without any problem. “We really havent ruled anything out but space aliens,“ he said. I)What about motive? So far the most intense participants in the debate have been members of the fishing community and animal rights activists, said Charles Huds
43、on, a spokesman for the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission. “Theres some out-of-the-gate speculation(推测 )that it could be from the fishing community, or the animal rights community, doing some sort of back-burn on the issue, blowing it up by sacrificing a few sea lions as a means to an end,
44、“ Hudson said. J)But he quickly added that he is doubtful about such speculation, noting that events have been moving in the fishermens favor lately. “It would be a reach to think a fisherman who understood the issue would do this, knowing it could all be undone with one stupid move. If it was a fis
45、herman, it was one of the dumber of the fishermen out there,“ Hudson said. K)Earlier this week Humane Society officials carefully considered the possible suspects. Sharon Young, marine issues field director for the group, said, “Theres a fairly narrow universe of people who could be responsible. I t
46、hink there are a lot of fishermen who are very frustrated that theyre competing with sea lions for fish.“ L)Dennis Richey, executive director of Oregon Anglers, a 3, 000-member group that represents fishermen along the coast, pointed out that there are plenty of places to kill sea lions on the Colum
47、biaplaces that wouldnt require violating federal security for access. “The average Joe out there fishing is annoyed at the sea lions, but they wouldnt go up to the dam and shoot them in the trap,“ Richey said, before the news surfaced that investigators had ruled out gunshots. “I suspect this was do
48、ne for effect.This was too organized to be some hot-tempered person.“ M)Another puzzle: if the animals were already in the process of being trapped and removed, why go to the trouble of killing them? Who would risk a jail sentence of up to a year and a fine of $100,000 to do something that was alrea
49、dy in the works? Whatever the answer, the mystery has confused administrators who are trying to figure out the best way to address the broader problems at hand. As Gorman put it Tuesday, “I dont know what were going to do next year. given whats happened in the last few days.“ 47 To the salmon fishermen in the Pacific Northwest, sea lions are hateable. 48 It hasnt been excluded that the death of the sea lions may possibly result from some n
