1、大学英语六级（ 2013年 12月考试改革适用）模拟试卷 129及答案与解析 一、 Part I Writing 1 Write an essay commenting on the remark “You will be more confident of your life and work if you travel from time to time.“ You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words. Section A （ A） The man is a football fan. （ B） The ma
2、n needs the womans help. （ C） The man didnt watch TV last night. （ D） The man often has power failure at home. （ A） She wants to know where the restaurant is. （ B） Shes recommending a good place to go for dinner. （ C） She thinks the man should go to France. （ D） Shes inviting the man to eat with her
3、. （ A） Call the TV station. （ B） Look for cats with the man. （ C） Meet the man at the cat exhibit. （ D） Watch the program on TV. （ A） Run in town. （ B） Look more carefully. （ C） Buy shoes from a catalog. （ D） Find an easier place to exercise. （ A） She wants to live in the suburbs. （ B） She is offend
4、ed by her naughty children. （ C） She disagrees with father. （ D） She turns a deaf ear to her husbands words. （ A） Home economics. （ B） Business administration. （ C） Computer programming. （ D） Historical research. （ A） Saturday afternoon was the mans busy hours. （ B） The man wont be able to enjoy a n
5、ap. （ C） Mr. Smith is an old friend of the man. （ D） The man wanted to take a long nap after lunch. （ A） She has spent all the money. （ B） She works in a factory. （ C） She should get a job. （ D） She likes to argue. （ A） You need to do large motions. （ B） You need to join a program. （ C） You need to
6、eat only a thousand extra calorics a day. （ D） You need to perform any motions taking energy. （ A） They visit those people after the program finished. （ B） They interview those people day by day. （ C） They test their weight every day. （ D） They ask those people to wear special devices. （ A） To clean
7、 up your bedroom. （ B） To watch TV. （ C） To drum your ringers. （ D） To stretch your back. （ A） They do much more exercise than others. （ B） They cat less than those who gained much weight. （ C） They perform those small motions. （ D） They cat more than two cheeseburgers per day. （ A） The way for wome
8、n to quit smoking. （ B） The defects of smoking to women. （ C） The merits of smoking in making progress. （ D） The merits of smoking in social aspects. （ A） Smoking kills about 140,000 people every year. （ B） There are over 1500 girls starting to smoke every year in the world. （ C） Light cigarette is
9、as bad as the regular one. （ D） Light cigarette is suitable for girls to smoke. （ A） They think that it is a symbol of mature. （ B） They think that smoking will ease their stressed life. （ C） They think that smoking light cigarette is harmless. （ D） They think that smoking can make them keep thin. S
10、ection B （ A） There were only grandparents and children. （ B） There was one father, one mother, and their children. （ C） There were many relatives. （ D） There were two or more brothers with their wives. （ A） The women have more freedom and can share in decisions. （ B） The women do not have to be the
11、 heads of the family. （ C） The womens relatives do not help them. （ D） The women have all the power of the family. （ A） Husbands have to share housework with their wives. （ B） Older women often live alone when their husbands die. （ C） Family structure is more patriarchal in the nuclear family. （ D）
12、Women have to help sisters, grandparents with housework and childcare. （ A） They want to stay at home and do the housework. （ B） They do not have enough money. （ C） They have too much work and not much free time. （ D） They have more freedom than in the past. （ A） A kind of exchange. （ B） A kind of b
13、usiness, （ C） A commercialized exchange. （ D） An international friendship association. （ A） Free food and lodging. （ B） Learning English. （ C） Staying with English families. （ D） Meeting young people. （ A） Most of them are satisfied. （ B） Most of them are very happy. （ C） Most of them are unhappy. （
14、 D） Most of them are not satisfied. （ A） By greeting each other very politely. （ B） By exchanging their views on public affairs. （ C） By displaying their feelings and emotions. （ D） By asking each other some personal questions. （ A） Refrain from showing his feelings. （ B） Express his opinion frankly
15、. （ C） Argue fiercely. （ D） Yell loudly. （ A） Getting rich quickly. （ B） Distinguishing oneself. （ C） Respecting individual rights. （ D） Doing credit to ones community. Section C 26 When we think of oil, the part of the world that comes to mind first may be the Middle East. But【 B1】 _development tak
16、es place worldwide. Nigeria, for example, is the largest oil producer in Africa and the eleventh largest producer in the world. Russia is the worlds【 B2】 _of oil and the top【 B3】 _of natural gas. In nineteen sixty Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela【 B4】 _the Organization of the Petroleum
17、 Exporting Countries. Its【 B5】 _may have reached a high point during the oil crisis【 B6】 _the nineteen seventy-three Arab-Israeli war. Arab oil producers【 B7】 _the United States, western Europe and Japan because of their support for Israel. Since then, new discoveries and increased production in are
18、as including countries of the former Soviet Union have provided more oil. Today OPEC has twelve members. The newest is Angola which joined in 2007. High oil prices have brought new attention to OPEC. Its members produce about forty percent of the worlds oil. But two of the worlds top three oil expor
19、ters, Russia and Norway, are not OPEC members. National oil companies are【 B8】 _to control about eighty percent of the worlds oil supply. In recent years, rising oil prices have led more governments to act, either directly or indirectly, to【 B9】 _their oil industries. President Hugo Chavez has moved
20、 to nationalize oil operations in Venezuela. And in Russia, a series of actions resulted in state-owned companies gaining control of【 B10】_held by Yukos. Yukos was Russias largest private company, until the government said it owed billions of dollars in taxes and jailed its founder, Russias richest
21、man. 27 【 B1】 28 【 B2】 29 【 B3】 30 【 B4】 31 【 B5】 32 【 B6】 33 【 B7】 34 【 B8】 35 【 B9】 36 【 B10】 Section A 36 If leadership, at its most basic, consists of getting things done through others, then persuasion is one of the leaders essential tools. Many executives have【 C1】 _that this tool is beyond th
22、eir grasp, available only to the charismatic(有超凡魅力的 )and the eloquent(有口才的 ). Over the【 C2】 _several decades, experimental psychologists have learned which methods reliably lead people to concede, comply, or change. Their research shows that【 C3】 _is governed by several principles that can be taught
23、 and applied. The first【 C4】 _is that people are more likely to follow someone who is similar to them than someone who is not. Wise managers, then, enlist peers to help them make their case. Second, people are more willing to【 C5】 _with those who are not only like them but who like them, as well. So
24、 its【 C6】 _the time to uncover real similarities and offer genuine praise. Third, experiments confirm the【 C7】 _that people tend to treat you the way you treat them. Its sound policy to do a favor before seeking one. Fourth, individuals are more【 C8】 _to keep promises they make voluntarily and expli
25、citly. The message for managers here is to get commitments in writing. Fifth, studies show that people【 C9】 _do defer to(尊重，顺从 )experts. Finally, people want more of a commodity when its scarce; it follows, then, that【 C10】 _information is more persuasive than widely available data. A)truth B)worthy
26、 C)likely D)really B)past F)damage G)learned H)exclusive I)persuasion J)principle K)cooperate L)assumed M)possibility N)worth O)taught 37 【 C1】 38 【 C2】 39 【 C3】 40 【 C4】 41 【 C5】 42 【 C6】 43 【 C7】 44 【 C8】 45 【 C9】 46 【 C10】 Section B 46 Wal-Mart A)Wal-Mart is more than just the worlds largest reta
27、iler. It is an economic force, a cultural phenomenon and a lightning rod for controversy. It all started with a simple philosophy from founder Sam Walton: offer shoppers lower prices than they get anywhere else. That basic strategy has shaped Wal-Marts culture and driven the companys growth. B)Now t
28、hat Wal-Mart is so huge, it has unprecedented power to shape labor markets globally and change the way entire industries operate. History of Wal-Mart C)Sam Walton opened his first five-and-dime in 1950. His vision was to keep prices as low as possible. Even if his margins werent as fat as competitor
29、s, he figured he could make up for that in volume. He was right. D)In the early 1960s, Walton opened his first Wal-Mart in Rogers, Arkansas. The company continued to grow, going public in 1970 and adding more stores every year. In 1990, Wal-Mart surpassed key rival Kmart in size. Two years later, it
30、 surpassed Sears. E)Walton continued to drive an old pickup truck and share budget-hotel rooms with colleagues on business trips, even after War-Mart made him very rich. He demanded that his employees also keep expenses to a bare minimum a mentality that is still at the heart of Wal-Mart culture mor
31、e than decade after Waltons death. The company has continued to grow rapidly after his death in 1992 and now operates four retail divisions Wal-Mart Super Centers, War-Mart Discount Stores, Neighborhood Market Stores and Sams Club Warehouses. Wal-Mart Strategy F)Lets start with technology. Wal-Mart
32、pushed the retail industry to establish the universal bar code, which forced manufacturers to adopt common labeling. The bar code allowed retailers to generate all kinds of information creating a subtle shift of power from manufacturers to retailers. Wal-Mart became especially good at exploiting the
33、 information behind the bar code. And thus it is considered a pioneer in developing sophisticated technology to track its stock and cut the fat out of its supply chain. G)Recently, Wal-Mart became the first major retailer to demand manufacturers use radio frequency identification technology(RF1D). T
34、he technology uses radio frequencies to transmit data stored on small tags attached to pallets(货盘 )or individual products. RF1D tags hold significantly more data than bar codes. H)The frugal culture, established by Walton, also plays into Wal-Marts success. The company has been criticized for the re
35、latively poor wages and health care plans that it offers to rank-and-file employees. It has also been accused of demanding that hourly workers put in overtime without pay. Store managers often work more than 70 hours per week. I)This culture is also present at the companys headquarters. Wal-Mart is
36、headquartered in Benton-ville, Arkansas, instead of an expensive city like New York. The building is unattractive and dull. You wont catch executives in quality cars and you wont see them dragging into work at 9:30 a.m. Executives fly coach and often share hotel rooms with colleagues. They work long
37、 hours, typically arriving at work before 6:30 a.m. and working half-days on Saturdays. J)The central goal of Wal-Mart is to keep retail prices low and the company has been very successful at this. Experts estimate that Wal-Mart saves shoppers at least 15 percent on a typical cart of groceries. Ever
38、ything including the technology and corporate culture feeds into that ultimate goal of delivering the lowest prices possible. Wal-Mart also pushes its suppliers, some say cruelly, to cut prices. In The Wal-Mart Effect, author Charles Fishman discusses how the price of a four-pack of GE light bulbs d
39、ecreased from $2.19 to 88 cents during a five-year period. The Power K)Because of Wal-Marts massive size, it has incredible power. It has driven the smallest retailers out of business; forced manufacturers to be more efficient, often leading these suppliers to move manufacturing jobs overseas; and c
40、hanged the way that even large and established industries do business. L)There is plenty of anecdotal evidence that a new Wal-Mart in town spells doom for local pharmacies, grocery stores, sporting goods stores, etc. Economist Emek Basker, Ph.D., attempted to quantify the impact. Her study found tha
41、t in a typical United States county, when a Wal-Mart opens, three other retailers close within two years and four close within five years. While the Wal- Mart might employ 300 people, another 250 people working in retail lose their jobs within five years in that county. M)Wal-Mart has life or death
42、decisions over(almost)all the consumer goods industries that exist in the United State, because it is the number-one supplier-retailer of most of our consumer goods not just clothes, shoes, toys, but home appliances, electronic products, sporting goods, bicycles, groceries, food. N)The stories of ho
43、w Wal-Mart pushes manufacturers into selling the same product at lower and lower prices are legendary. One example is Lakewood Engineering you dont spend five days a week in a factory. Besides, if it wasnt money, youd argue about everything else. I think you enjoy arguments. Q: According to the man,
44、 which statement best describes the woman? 9 【正确答案】 D 【试题解析】 细节题。选项与女士有关，涉及钱、工作以及女士的性格等。女士说为什么总是因为钱争吵，她宁愿把钱花光，这样就不会争吵了。男士说女士即使不是因为钱，也会因为其他事情而和他争执，他认为女士很喜欢争吵。 10 【听力原文】 M: You dont know about me is that I used to weigh an incredible three hundred pounds. Ever since I started the weight loss program,
45、though, Ive been slimming and trimming until Im now in the spectacular shape you see today. W: Don. you look the same as you always have. M: Well, okay. But I do fidget. W: You fidget? What does fidgeting have to do with weight? M: Maybe a lot! Researchers at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota did some ex
46、periments to try to figure out why some people gain weight more than others do. W: Boy, I can relate to that. Some people can eat whatever they want and they never seem to gain a pound. M: In this study, volunteers were given a thousand extra calories a day about two cheeseburgers worth of extra int
47、ake. W: This kind of study Id like to be in! M:(10)Well anyway, they also wore special devices that recorded how much they moved you know, walking up and down steps and whatnot. Everybody gained weight, but some people gained much less than others. The reason? Fidgeting. W:(11)You mean just drumming
48、 your fingers or scratching your neck or something? M:(9)/(11)Any motion takes energy to perform. And little motions like rearranging things on your desk or stretching your back, if you do them all the time, start to add up. We generally only think of large motions, like exercise, as burning caloric
49、s. But people who have the fidgets may be doing a slow, steady burn all day long. Questions 9 to 12 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 9. According to the dialogue, how to lose weight efficiently? 10. How can researcher perform the study? 11. Which of the following action has nothing to do with losing weight? 12. Why some people gained much less than others? 10 【正确答案】 D 【试题解析】 推理题。一定要注意谈话的开头，对话中的第一句 you d
