1、大学英语六级（ 2013年 12月考试改革适用）模拟试卷 12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 “Earth provides enough to satisfy every mans need, but not every mans greed.“ You can cite examples to illustrate your point. You should write at least 150 w
2、ords but no more than 200 words. Write your essay on Answer Sheet 1. Section A （ A） Ordinary and poor guys. （ B） Rich and special guys. （ C） Thin and tall guys. （ D） Rich and old guys. （ A） He can do everything well. （ B） He only knows something without mastering. （ C） He likes doing housework. （ D）
3、 He is popular in the neighborhood. （ A） Continue working. （ B） Go back home. （ C） Meet his boss. （ D） Stay up late for exams. （ A） Improve his ability of endurance. （ B） Enhance his interest in math. （ C） Do it by himself. （ D） Remember it forever. （ A） She is a beautiful girl. （ B） She likes minis
4、kirts. （ C） She has no idea of her own. （ D） She has a special taste for fashion. （ A） They can arouse public passion. （ B） They can not educate the public. （ C） They can shine as the flash. （ D） They can not last for a long time. （ A） Humorous. （ B） Boring. （ C） Knowledgeable. （ D） Strict. （ A） At
5、the food fair. （ B） In the hospital. （ C） In the studio. （ D） At school. （ A） Hosting a TV program. （ B） Introducing a famous doctor. （ C） Commenting on allergies. （ D） Making a performance. （ A） By taking allergy shots. （ B） By taking a full spoon every day. （ C） By taking pollen to build up tolera
6、nce. （ D） By taking only local honey. （ A） Add peaches and apples to your diet. （ B） Cook with onions and garlic. （ C） Reduce the amount of vinegar. （ D） Have more fruits enriched with Vitamin C. （ A） Mix it with cold water. （ B） Drain it through both sides of the nose. （ C） Do it over a sink. （ D）
7、Have three-year-old kids do it. （ A） It aims at evaluating the ability of a candidate to handle stress. （ B） It demotivates candidates by creating a master-servant situation. （ C） It is deliberately planned and usually warns interviewees beforehand. （ D） It is regarded as an unnecessary tool for ass
8、essment. （ A） Be cheerful even when you are provoked. （ B） Never seem to be nervous. （ C） Try to win debating points. （ D） Never say “I dont know.“ （ A） Make sure if the company is the one you want to work for. （ B） Respond with a smile and show your sense of humor. （ C） Confess your ignorance or fr
9、ustration straightaway. （ D） Maintain eye contact with the interviewer and keep answers brief. Section B （ A） To keep fit. （ B） To study well. （ C） To earn more money. （ D） To gain esteem. （ A） By changing the measure to achieve the goal. （ B） By valuing the importance of the goal. （ C） By reflectin
10、g the image of the goal. （ D） By reinforcing the impression of the goal. （ A） You should do little exercises. （ B） You should take some of your favorite foods. （ C） You should always keep on diet. （ D） You should take some drugs for help. （ A） They look at the students shoulders. （ B） They focus on
11、the teachers explanation. （ C） They pay attention to the students reactions in class. （ D） They wear the lab coats in class. （ A） A learning test strategy. （ B） An interest experiment. （ C） A teaching evaluation procedure. （ D） A mock applicants interview. （ A） It is conducted in class and the other
12、 teachers provide feedback. （ B） It is done at home with students. （ C） It is prepared by the delivery teacher alone. （ D） It is performed without any audience. （ A） It is popular in the academic circle. （ B） It is not acceptable in the United States. （ C） It just begins in Japan. （ D） It just begin
13、s in the United States. （ A） A little girl. （ B） A young woman. （ C） An old lady. （ D） A handsome boy. （ A） It can help the female cancer patients become younger. （ B） It can make the female cancer patients more beautiful. （ C） It can stimulate self-respect in the female cancer patients. （ D） It can
14、 delight the female cancer patients. （ A） Slowing down the treatment of the patients. （ B） Ignoring the real needs of the patients. （ C） Influencing the bad situation of the patients. （ D） Doing harm to happy mood of the patients. Section C 26 A British study has found that B vitamins can reduce bra
15、in shrinkage in older people with mild memory loss. It【 B1】 _that B vitamins caused an average 1/3 reduction in brain shrinkage among adults who had trouble remembering. David Smith was a leader of the study. He【 B2】 _the use of the vitamins as simple and safe. He also said researchers do not yet kn
16、ow if B vitamins could【 B3】 _or slow Alzheimers disease(老年痴呆症 ). Vitamins are important for good health. These complex organic substances help to【 B4】 _chemical changes within cells. If we do not get enough of the vitamins we need in our food, we are at risk of developing【 B5】 _diseases. Some shrink
17、age of the brain is thought to happen【 B6】 _ as people grow older. Yet studies have shown a correlation between a larger shrinkage and Alzheimers disease. The researchers say about one in six people over the age of 70 have problems with mental operations. They say half of these people【 B7】 _ serious
18、 loss of mental ability, as in Alzheimers disease. Over time, the disease robs people of their memories. Finally, it【 B8】 _their ability to care for themselves. Prof. Smith had a warning for older adults worried about memory loss. He said they should talk to their doctors before starting to take the
19、 vitamins. He added that the vitamins could speed the【 B9】 _of some cancers. The results did not show a difference in loss of abilities such as【 B10】 _, language and memory. That was true whether or not the people took the vitamins. 27 【 B1】 28 【 B2】 29 【 B3】 30 【 B4】 31 【 B5】 32 【 B6】 33 【 B7】 34 【
20、 B8】 35 【 B9】 36 【 B10】 Section A 36 India is to frugality(节俭 )as Bethlehem is to Jesus. As rich countries enter a new era of【 C1】 _, the best practices of the gurus(导师 )of frugality can serve as a textbook for frugalitys new pupils. The first tip is to wear your money. One rarely【 C2】 _funds when t
21、hey are kept in gold and hooked through your nose or strung around your neck. Some Indian women wear saris woven with gold thread. Your upholstery(室内装潢品 )is not for everyone. Sofas wear away and stain. So cover your sofa with bed sheets and【 C3】 _them for only the best friends. So, too, with crocker
22、y(陶器 ): Buy a set of expensive plates and keep it in a case where your friends can see them while they eat from the cheap plates you actually set before them. When eating out, order soups fractionally: a certain number of soups【 C4】 _by a certain number of people. Start with “one into two,“ the real
23、m of Indian beginners, then graduate in time to “three into five“ and “six into seven.“ Of course, if you can, avoid restaurants【 C5】 _Weddings are big here, and Indians who keep an ear to the ground can eat free every night. Wedding【 C6】 _ are not a movie in India; they are a way of life. Within th
24、e household, Indian frugalists think strategically, like MBAs. They do not let their children study art history. Children are【 C7】 _, and good investors build a diverse portfolio by rearing one police officer, one software coder, one retail clerk. They【 C8】 _their educations so that the eventual pro
25、fits from each child subsidize the schooling of the next one. Every MBA graduate knows about “ value investing.“ But only Indian homemakers apply the 【 C9】 _to peas. Thats right: Buy peas in winter, when they are【 C10】_and cheap. Freeze. Defrost and cook in the summer, when prices spike. Indian comp
26、anies think like Indian consumers. Managers often fly to meetings but take train back home. A)principle F)misplaces K)crashers B)equities G)split L)principal C)remove H)abolish M)sufficient D)scarcity I)altogether N)sequence E)appointed J)plentiful O)property 37 【 C1】 38 【 C2】 39 【 C3】 40 【 C4】 41 【
27、 C5】 42 【 C6】 43 【 C7】 44 【 C8】 45 【 C9】 46 【 C10】 Section B 46 Electronic Reading Devices A)More than 550 years after Johannes Gutenberg printed 180 copies of the Bible on paper and vellum(羊皮纸 ), new technologies as revolutionary as the printing press are changing the concept of a book and what it
28、means to be literate. Sound, animation and the ability to connect to the Internet have created the notion of a living book that can establish an entirely new kind of relationship with readers. B)As electronic reading devices evolve and proliferate(激增 ), books are increasingly able to talk to readers
29、, quiz them on their grasp of the material, play videos to illustrate a point or connect them with a community of fellow readers. C)The Master of Rampling Gate, a novel by Anne Rice published in 1991 as a paperback, illustrates some of the possibilities. The out-of-print title was given new life in
30、March, when it was reissued in digital form by Vook(a mash-up of “video“ and “book“), an Alameda start-up selling titles for iPad and iPhone. As a $ 4.99 application sold through iTunes store, the title comes with video interviews with Rice and others and links to Web pages that elaborate on events
31、and places in the story within the text. D)Vook has published more than two dozen titles. The videos and other digital features are designed to “project the emotion of the book without getting in the way of the story,“ said Brad Inman, Vooks chief executive and a former real estate columnist for the
32、 San Francisco Examiner. “We want to revive the passion for traditional narrative. Multimedia could be a catalyst for spawning more reading.“ E)Tim OReilly, whose OReilly Media in Sebastopol, Calif., is at the forefront of designing and distributing digital books over the Internet and on mobile devi
33、ces, said technology has the power to “broaden our thinking about what a book does.“ F)In addition to displaying pages from a book, digital e-readers can read them aloud, opening up a literary trove for the blind and the visually impaired who have long had only a thin selection of audio and Braille
34、books to choose from. “You now have the ability to make a book talk,“ said George Kerscher, head of the Digital Accessible Information System Consortium in Zurich, Switzerland. Kerscher, who studied computer science at the University of Montana and is blind, has spent two decades lobbying publishers
35、 to make books more accessible to visually impaired readers. G)Digital technology is also transforming reading from a famously solitary experience into a social one. The newest generation of readers the texting, chatting, YouTubing kids has run circles around the traditional publishing process, keep
36、ing its favorite stories alive online long after theyre published. At online fan communities for popular fantasy series like Harry Potter and Twilight, young enthusiasts collaborate on new story lines involving monsters, ghosts and secret crushes. H)On Textnovel. com, thousands of cellphone-toting a
37、uthors write novels via text message, one or two sentences at a time. Aspiring writers can sign up on the free site and begin writing, either from phones or computers. Readers can follow the stories online or receive a text every time their favorite author adds a plot twist. Shannon Rheinbold Gee ta
38、pped out her 85 000 word thriller about teenage werewolves(狼人 )in just under five weeks using the Textnovel site. The former middle-school teacher figured she had no chance of getting a traditional publishing deal. It did. The book, IS to Life, won Textnovels first annual contest and earned its auth
39、or a three-book contract with the prestigious St. Martins Press, including a $ 10 000 advance. I)Textnovel, which is funded by contributions from its own members, is just one example of how the Internet has become fertile ground for creative amateurs. On Scribd. com, writers and digital packrats(收藏者
40、 )are building a huge exchange meet for written works of every length, many of which once existed on paper. Visitors can browse digital versions of novels and nonfiction books some by established authors, others by complete unknowns along with recipes for spinach calzones and 1950s-era manuals for b
41、uilding transistor radios, nearly all of which is free. J)As in many places online, free content is the rule. Writers who are intent on making money will have to find creative ways to attract readers and build an audience. As the YouTube of books, Scribd provides a virtual printing press for budding
42、 writers and a community of potential readers. The company gets most of its revenue by selling advertising on the site. K)The proliferation of amateur content poses a difficult problem for publishers, who must find a way to make a profit in a sprawling marketplace increasingly filled with free conte
43、nt. “Weve pretty much reached the point where the supply has now shifted to infinite,“ said Richard Nash, former head of Soft Skull Press, a small New York publisher. “So the next question is: How do you make people want it?“ Part of the answer may be found on Goodreads. com, a digital library and s
44、ocial networking site where millions of members can log in and chat about any book they want, including many that will never see print. L)Lori Hettler of Tobyhanna, Pa. , runs one of the largest book clubs on Goodreads, with nearly 7 000 members from all over the globe. Discussions can go on for hun
45、dreds of messages, with readers passionately championing the clubs latest selection. M)A recommendation by Hettler can help little-known authors find an audience. Her recent picks include M. Cliffords The Book and D. H. Haneys Banned for Life, both self-published efforts. “Word of mouth goes a long
46、way,“ Hettler said. “Once I review a book for one guy, he usually has someone he would like me to read, and then that guy has someone he would like me to read. Its this wonderful, endless cycle. “ N)Whereas printed texts often are linear paths paved by the author chapter by chapter, digital books en
47、courage readers to click here or tap there, launching them on side journeys before they even reach the bottom of a page. Some scholars fear that this is breeding a generation of readers who wont have the attention span to get through classics like The Catcher in the Rye, let alone Moby-Dick. O)“Read
48、ing well is like playing the piano or the violin,“ said the poet and critic Dana Gioia, former chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts. “It is a high-level cognitive ability that requires long-term practice. I worry that those mechanisms in our culture that used to take a child and have him
49、or her learn more words and more complex syntax(句法结构 )are breaking down.“ 47 Brad Inman considered that the function of multimedia is that it would boost more book reading. 48 The newest generation of readers has become creative collaborators in literary writing. 49 Shannon Rheinbold-Gee gained the opportunity to output her creative writing in just under five weeks with the help of Textnovel site. 50 Dana Gioia is anxious about the breaking down of
