1、大学英语六级（ 2013年 12月考试改革适用）模拟试卷 130及答案与解析 一、 Part I Writing 1 For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay on the remark “Lies have short legs.“ You can give examples to illustrate your point. You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words. Write your essay on Answer Shee
2、t 1. Section A （ A） Clean the kitchen. （ B） Ask someone to fix the sink. （ C） Find a bigger apartment for the lady. （ D） Check the work done by the maintenance man. （ A） The woman hated the man talking throughout the movie. （ B） The woman saw a comedy instead of a horror movie. （ C） The woman prefer
3、s light movies before sleep. （ D） The woman regrets going to the movie. （ A） He is the right man to get the job done. （ B） He is a man with professional expertise. （ C） He is not easy to get along with. （ D） He is not likely to get the job. （ A） She wants to borrow the mans student ID card. （ B） The
4、 tickets are less expensive than she expected. （ C） She wont be able to get any discount for the ticket. （ D） The performance turned out to be disappointing. （ A） The organization of a conference. （ B） The cost of renting a conference room. （ C） The decoration of the conference room. （ D） The job of
5、 cleaning up the dining-room. （ A） The man is not suitable for the position. （ B） The job has been given to someone else. （ C） She had received only one application letter. （ D） The application arrived a week earlier than expected. （ A） She lacks confidence in herself. （ B） She is not interested in
6、computer programming. （ C） She has never signed up for any competition before. （ D） She is sure to win the programming contest. （ A） Everyone enjoyed himself at Johns panics. （ B） The woman didnt enjoy Johns parties at all. （ C） It will be the first time for the man to attend Johns party. （ D） The w
7、oman is glad to be invited to Johns house-warming party. （ A） Reading an article about endangered animals. （ B） Preparing for his papers. （ C） Raising funds for saving the endangered animals. （ D） Choosing which animal to save. （ A） She doesnt know what to read. （ B） She has to do some research on b
8、iology or economics. （ C） She has to finish two papers that are due on the same day. （ D） She cant believe she can finish the two papers. （ A） Because its hard to classify all of the varieties of animals. （ B） Because their methods of biological research are inadequate. （ C） Because they have diffic
9、ulties in getting enough funding for saving the animals. （ D） Because they arc unwilling to make efforts to save every endangered species. （ A） At the supermarket just around the corner where the man lives. （ B） At the supermarket just around the corner where she lives. （ C） At the local shops nearb
10、y. （ D） In the town. （ A） At the supermarket just around the corner where he lives. （ B） At the supermarket just around the corner where the woman lives. （ C） At the local shops nearby. （ D） In the town. （ A） The supermarket is convenient. （ B） The supermarket is huge and he can find everything he n
11、eeds. （ C） The goods in the supermarket are much cheaper. （ D） The supermarket is near his home. （ A） There are too many people in the small corner shop. （ B） They are always friendly to customers and ready to help. （ C） They always shout at the customers. （ D） They like to chat with the customers.
12、Section B （ A） The meaning of facial expressions depends on situations. （ B） Facial expressions can cause misunderstanding across culture. （ C） People from one culture may lack facial expressions because they experience less emotion. （ D） Facial expressions may disguise true feelings. （ A） They smil
13、e to cover embarrassment. （ B） It is an unusual and even suspicious behavior. （ C） They smile to show politeness. （ D） It is an expression of pleasure. （ A） We shouldnt judge people by reading their faces. （ B） We shouldnt smile in the wrong place. （ C） We shouldnt cover our true feelings. （ D） We s
14、houldnt express our emotions too openly. （ A） Separate houses were built for storing ice. （ B） Double walls were built in icehouses to keep cool. （ C） Blocks of ice were packed with weed in icehouses. （ D） Ice was put into icehouses in winter. （ A） The ice was cut and handled with the help of some s
15、pecial tools. （ B） The ice was taken from the flowing river with hooks and carried by sleds to icehouses. （ C） The ice was carried on the frozen surface of the pond or river. （ D） The ice was sawed into even blocks by workers. （ A） Ice Saws, choppers, axes, tongs, hooks. （ B） Ice Axes, saws, chopper
16、s, tongs, hooks. （ C） Choppers, axes, saws, hooks, tongs. （ D） Ice Axes, saws, choppers, hooks, tongs. （ A） To find out how much air can be pumped into a plane. （ B） To find out how much air passengers need to breathe at certain altitudes. （ C） To find what would happen if the plane crashed in the w
17、ater. （ D） To find out if there are any weak parts in the plane that would burst under pressure. （ A） Because the water pressure is greater than air pressure. （ B） Because the first Comets crashed in the water. （ C） Because there is less damage when the explosion takes place under water. （ D） Becaus
18、e it is the only way available for engineers to find out which part has cracked. （ A） In the air. （ B） On the airfield. （ C） Under water. （ D） At plane manufacturing factory. （ A） Two important tests of a new airliner because it is put into use. （ B） How to carry out tank test in the water. （ C） How
19、 pilots carry out the test flights. （ D） How to make a safe passenger plane. Section C 26 I think that, from a biological standpoint, human life almost reads like a poem. It has its own rhythm and beat, its internal cycles of growth and【 B1】 _. It begins with innocent childhood, followed by awkward【
20、 B2】 _trying awkwardly to adapt itself to mature society, with its young passions, its ideals and【 B3】 _; then it reaches a manhood of intense activities, profiting from experience and learning more about society and human nature; at middle age, there is a【 B4】 _like the ripening of fruit, and the g
21、radual acquiring of a more tolerant and at the same time a kindlier view of life; then In the sunset of our life, our body【 B5】_its activities. It is for us the age of peace and security and leisure and【 B6】 _; finally, life ends and one goes into【 B7】 _, never to wake up again. One should be able t
22、o sense the beauty of this【 B8】 _of life, to appreciate, as we do in grand symphonies, its main theme, its strains of conflict and the final resolution. The movements of these cycles are very much the same in a normal life, but the music must be provided by the【 B9】 _himself. No one can say that lif
23、e with childhood, manhood and old age is not a beautiful arrangement; the day has its morning, noon and sunset, and the year has its seasons, and it is good that it is so. There is no good or bad in life, except what is good【 B10】 _its own season. 27 【 B1】 28 【 B2】 29 【 B3】 30 【 B4】 31 【 B5】 32 【 B6
24、】 33 【 B7】 34 【 B8】 35 【 B9】 36 【 B10】 Section A 36 They go to one of the worlds most prestigious universities and pride themselves on their【 C1】 _intellect but almost half of Cambridge students admit they are not immune from the temptation to cheat and【 C2】 _essays they find on Google, a survey sug
25、gests. The results of an anonymous online poll of more than 1,000 students【 C3】 _by the student newspaper Varsity found that 49 percent of undergraduates pass other peoples work off as their own at some point during their university【 C4】 _. Only 5 percent said they had【 C5】_been caught plagiarising(
26、剽窃 ). Academics in universities across the country have been【 C6】 _by their peers of turning a blind eye to the practice to【 C7】 _their institutions climb national and international rankings. One student told Varsity: “Sometimes, when I am really fed up, I Google the essay title, copy and throw ever
27、ything on to a blank word【 C8】 _and jiggle the order a bit. They usually end up being the best essays.“ Law students were most prone to plagiarism with 62 percent of those questioned【 C9】_to breaking university rules. Robert Foley, a professor in biological anthropology at Kings College Cambridge, s
28、aid: “It is a depressing set of statistics.“ A university spokesman told Varsity that it regarded plagiarism as a “serious and potentially disciplinary offence which can lead to failure to obtain, or withdrawal of a degree.“ He said the university was planning to introduce【 C10】 _software to crack d
29、own on the problem. A)demonstrate B)submit C)career D)semester E)actually F)finally G)ensure H)conducted I)detection J)document K)promote L)accused M)confess N)admitting O)superior 37 【 C1】 38 【 C2】 39 【 C3】 40 【 C4】 41 【 C5】 42 【 C6】 43 【 C7】 44 【 C8】 45 【 C9】 46 【 C10】 Section B 46 Gender-Neutral
30、Language A)The practice of assigning masculine gender to neutral terms comes from the fact that every language reflects the prejudices of the society in which it evolved, and English evolved through most of its history in a male-centered, patriarchal society. Like any other language, however, Englis
31、h is always changing. One only has to read aloud sentences from the 19th century books assigned for this class to sense the shifts that have occurred in the last 150 years. When readers pick up something to read, they expect different conventions depending on the time in which the material was. writ
32、ten. As writers in 1995, we need to be not only aware of the conventions that our readers may expect, but also conscious of the responses our words may elicit. In addition, we need to know how the shifting nature of language can make certain words awkward or misleading. “Man“ B)Man once was a truly
33、generic word referring to all humans, but has gradually narrowed in meaning to become a word that refers to adult male human beings. Anglo-Saxons used the word to refer to all people. One example of this occurs when an Anglo-Saxon writer refers to a seventh-century English princess as “a wonderful m
34、an“. Man paralleled the Latin word homo, “a member of the human species“ not “an adult male of the species“. The Old English word for adult male was waepman and the old English word for adult woman was wifman. In the course of time, wifman evolved into the word “woman“. “Man“ eventually ceased to be
35、 used to refer to individual women and replaced waepman as a specific term distinguishing an adult male from an adult female. But man continued to be used in generalizations about both sexes. C)By the 18th century, the modern, narrow sense of man was firmly established as the predominant one. When E
36、dmund Burke, writing of the French Revolution, used men in the old, inclusive way, he took pains to spell out his meaning: “Such a deplorable havoc is made in the minds of men(both sexes)in France.“ Thomas Jefferson did not make the same distinction in declaring that “all men arc created equal“ and
37、“governments arc instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.“ In a time when women, having no vote, could neither give nor withhold consent, Jefferson had to be using the word men in its principal sense of “males“, and it probably never occurred to him that any
38、one would think otherwise. Looking at modern dictionaries indicates that the definition that links “man“ with males is the predominant one. Studies of college students and school children indicate that even when the broad definitions of “man“ and “men“ are taught, they tend to conjure up images of m
39、ale people only. We would never use the sentence “A girl grows up to be a man“, because we assume the narrower definition of the word man. The Pronoun Problem D)The first grammars of modern English were written in the 16th and 17th centuries. They were mainly intended to help boys from upper class f
40、amilies prepare for the study of Latin, a language most scholars considered superior to English. The male authors of these earliest English grammars wrote for male readers in an age when few women were literate. The masculine-gender Pronouns(代词 )did not reflect a belief that masculine pronouns could
41、 refer to both sexes. The grammars of this period contain no indication that masculine pronouns were sex-inclusive when used in general references. Instead these pronouns reflected the reality of male cultural dominance and the male-centered world view that resulted. E)“He“ started to be used as a g
42、eneric pronoun by grammarians who were trying to change a long-established tradition of using “they“ as a singular pronoun. In 1850 an Act of Parliament gave official sanction(批准 )to the recently invented concept of the “generic“ he. In the language used in acts of Parliament, the new law said, “wor
43、ds importing the masculine gender shall be deemed and taken to include females“. Although similar language in contracts and other legal documents subsequently helped reinforce this grammatical edict in all English-speaking countries, it was often conveniently ignored. In 1879, for example, a move to
44、 admit female physicians to the all-male Massachusetts Medical Society was effectively blocked on the grounds that the societys by-laws describing membership used the pronoun he. F)Just as “man“ is not truly generic in the 1990s, “he“ is not a true generic pronoun. Studies have confirmed that most p
45、eople understand “he“ to refer to men only. Sentences like “A doctor is a busy person; he must be able to balance a million obligations at once“ imply that all doctors are men. As a result of the fact that “he“ is read by many as a masculine pronoun, many people, especially women, have come to feel
46、that the generic pronouns excludes women. This means that more and more people find the use of such a pronoun problematic. Solving the Pronoun Problem G)They as a singular most people, when writing and speaking informally, rely on singular they as a matter of course: “If you love someone, set them f
47、ree“(Sting). If you pay attention to your own speech, youll probably catch yourself using the same construction yourself. “Its enough to drive anyone out of their senses“(George Bernard Shaw). “I shouldnt like to punish anyone, even ii theyd done me wrong“(George Eliot). Some people are annoyed by t
48、he incorrect grammar that this solution necessitates, but this construction is used more and more frequently. H)He or She Despite the charge of clumsiness, double-pronoun constructions have made a comeback: “To be black in this country is simply too pervasive an experience for any writer to omit fro
49、m her or his work“, wrote Samuel R. Delany. Overuse of this solution can be awkward, however. I)Pluralizing A writer can often recast material in the plural. For instance, instead of “As he advances in his program, the medical student has increasing opportunities for clinical work,“ try “As they advance in their program, medical students have increasing opportunities for clinical work“. J)Eliminating Pronouns Avoid having to use pronouns at all; i
