1、大学英语六级（ 2013年 12月考试改革适用）模拟试卷 145及答案与解析 一、 Part I Writing 1 For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay based on the picture below. You should start your essay with a brief description of the picture and then discuss how to get rid of the haze. You should give sound arguments to suppo
2、rt your views and write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words. Section A （ A） The delivery man. （ B） The woman herself. （ C） The womans roommate. （ D） The womans neighbor. （ A） She cant believe what the man says. （ B） She can understand Ms. Hoofers decision. （ C） She isnt interested in polit
3、ics at all. （ D） She will vote for Ms. Hoofer. （ A） At his own home. （ B） At the mans home. （ C） At the evening school. （ D） At his grandmas home. （ A） 5% off. （ B） 13% off. （ C） 15% off. （ D） 30% off. （ A） The flight wont take off on time. （ B） The man wants to change his flight. （ C） There is no f
4、light to Hong Kong. （ D） The woman will call back later. （ A） He will have a job interview. （ B） He has just secured a job position. （ C） He passed his final exam. （ D） He got the tickets for a big game. （ A） The operation of the new fax machine. （ B） The advantage of the new technology. （ C） The in
5、formation released through the mail system. （ D） The necessity of setting up access code. （ A） Life is always miserable. （ B） Some rest will cheer the woman up. （ C） Its no use complaining. （ D） Hell try hard to help. （ A） 80,000. （ B） 100,000. （ C） 400,000. （ D） 800,000. （ A） To help people start t
6、heir own small business. （ B） To provide accommodation for holidaymakers. （ C） To link providers of spare rooms to holidaymakers. （ D） To study how the market-leaders of the industries succeed. （ A） By collecting donations from its believers. （ B） By promoting their online religion services. （ C） By
7、 renting out their churches for big ceremonies. （ D） By charging travelers money for using their parking spaces. （ A） Charles Darwin. （ B） Patrick Matthew. （ C） Alfred Russel Wallace. （ D） Matthew Wallace. （ A） To look it up in her textbook. （ B） To search on the Internet. （ C） To ask her professor
8、for help. （ D） To go to the library. （ A） A clever clog knows everything in the world. （ B） All the living creatures have the same ancestor. （ C） Nature makes some species change into other species. （ D） Ideas are transformative and can be united. （ A） Some of them died out because they couldnt adap
9、t to their environment. （ B） They could reproduce in a large number to keep the species survive. （ C） They developed the ability to change their surroundings. （ D） They must abide by their traditional behavior to survive. Section B （ A） Some senior hackers. （ B） The government agencies. （ C） The sec
10、urity researchers. （ D） The game players. （ A） Because it cost $ 77 billion to develop. （ B） Because it even puts data in offline devices in danger. （ C） Because it aims at nuclear facilities and military bases. （ D） Because it is revealed to reporters and the public. （ A） Cutting all the devices fr
11、om the Internet. （ B） Stopping using all the advanced laser printers. （ C） Installing the high-tech anti-hacking softwares. （ D） Using an AM radio to detect the signals. （ A） To solve economic problem. （ B） To increase gender equality. （ C） To follow the international trend. （ D） To increase the num
12、ber of population. （ A） Only mothers can take the paid parental leave. （ B） No parental leave can be taken after the child is 8. （ C） Only families of two working parents can enjoy the paid leave. （ D） Parents must reserve the paid parental leave in advance. （ A） For 2 weeks. （ B） For 10 weeks. （ C）
13、 For 2 months. （ D） For 3 months. （ A） They worry about the salary cut. （ B） They show favor to taking the leave. （ C） They think women should benefit more. （ D） They feel more responsibility on them. （ A） The quality of neighborhood life. （ B） The intensity of the work schedule. （ C） The frequency
14、of meeting friends. （ D） The time spent in driving to work. （ A） Cutting down cooking time. （ B） Planting fruit trees. （ C） Returning some favors. （ D） Chatting in the cars. （ A） Being more reliable. （ B） Moving to a new place. （ C） Taking pride in oneself. （ D） Getting more involved. Section C 26 D
15、aniel Devlin lives in the same house with his children and sees them every dayyet he is unable to recognize them at all. Mr. Devlin, 46, from Nunhead, London, is living with a bizarre condition called prosopagnosia, also known as face-blindness, meaning he【 B1】 _to recognize faceseven those of his o
16、wn family. Mr. Devlin, a painter, has been forced to【 B2】 _his familys voices and body language in order to know who they are. But reading【 B3】 _and body language doesnt always work, and has even mistaken another boy for his son when picking his children up from school before. Mr. Devlin said, “ Hum
17、ans have a special ability to recognize people by seeing their faces, I really dont have this ability. Maybe a good way to【 B4】 _what its like is to try and recognize people by what their hands look like. Every person has a【 B5】_hand but if someone showed you a photo of someones hands, you might str
18、uggle to recognize who the person is. “ Experts said the disease is thought to be the result of【 B6】 _of the brain. This could【 B7】 _a stroke, brain injury, or some diseases. Or, in cases such as Mr. Devlinsthe condition is present【 B8】 _, and the pathways in the brain responsible for recognition ne
19、ver developed properly. It is thought the condition affects up to one in 50 people, the【 B9】 _of about 1. 5 million people in the U. K. Some people with the disease may only struggle to recognize a familiar face, but in more severe cases sufferers cannot distinguish a face as【 B10】 _an object. Some
20、sufferers are unable to recognize their own faces. 27 【 B1】 28 【 B2】 29 【 B3】 30 【 B4】 31 【 B5】 32 【 B6】 33 【 B7】 34 【 B8】 35 【 B9】 36 【 B10】 Section A 36 Anger often makes us uncomfortable. Its uncomfortable to witness and uncomfortable to feel. Witnessing your childs anger can be especially uncomf
21、ortable. In order to【 C1】 _this feeling, parents will often encourage children to “stop crying“. The “stop crying“ parent is just doing what they were taught by their own parents. While telling your child to “ stop crying“ is【 C2】 _child abuse in itself, your child may still need help with depressio
22、n,【 C3】 _, or other issues later in life. This cycle can be stopped, however, if we learn how to create healthier anger in our kids, and in ourselves. To understand why stuffing emotions away is unhealthy, think of emotions like they are【 C4】 _wounds. When you cut your finger, your body knows to【 C5
23、】_blood vessels and release white blood cells. In order to let your cut finger heal, youve got to let the bodys natural process work. Like the body, the psyche knows what needs to happen to【 C6】 _the emotional wounds. To let your mind heal, youve got to let yourself go through a healing process as w
24、ell. If you dont let yourself heal, whenever a similar event happens in your life, the old emotions will【 C7】 _and cause you pain. Until you learn to examine your feelings and let them go, theyll act like cuts that never close. When we find our anger too uncomfortable to process and let go, we set t
25、hat model for our children to copy. If a child never sees his or her parent express anger, the parent teaches that child that they, too, should never express anger. Or, if a parent always expresses his/her anger loudly and【 C8】 _, the child may start to think of anger as something that is always fri
26、ghtening. The first thing you can do to create healthier anger in your children is to practice creating healthier anger in yourself. Try mindfulness exercises to start feeling more comfortable when being angry. Its our【 C9】 _to anger that often makes our anger worse. Once youre better at experiencin
27、g anger and expressing it in a【 C10】_way, youll be able to model a good anger style for your kids. A)accept B)addiction C)emerge D)emotional E)express F)heal G)healthy H)heartedly I)hurtfully J)insistence K)pessimistic L)physical M)relieve N)resistance O)tighten 37 【 C1】 38 【 C2】 39 【 C3】 40 【 C4】 4
28、1 【 C5】 42 【 C6】 43 【 C7】 44 【 C8】 45 【 C9】 46 【 C10】 Section B 46 Shock Treatment AThe objective of Americas Affordable Care Act of 2010commonly known as Obamacarewas to ensure that the 40m-plus Americans who lacked health insurance could get it. Less widely appreciated, but at least as important,
29、are the incentives and penalties the law introduced to make the countrys terribly expensive and poorly performing health services safer and more efficient. Economists are debating on how much credit Obamacare should get for a recent moderation in the growth of health costs, and for a fall in the num
30、ber of patients having to be readmitted to hospital. Whatever the answer is, many companies see the disruption unleashed by the reforms as the business opportunity of a lifetime. BOne of the biggest shifts under way is to phase out the “fee for service“ model, in which hospitals and doctors surgerie
31、s are reimbursed(补偿 )for each test or treatment with no regard for the outcome, encouraging them to put patients through unnecessary and expensive procedures. Since Obamacare they are increasingly being paid by resultsa flat fee for each successful hip replacement, say. There are also incentives for
32、 providers which meet cost or performance targets, and new requirements for hospitals to disclose their prices. CMillions of people are now looking for health insurance on the new public exchanges set up under the reforms. And Obamacare has come into effect at a time when American employers, who oft
33、en provide health cover for their workers, are seeking to cut its cost by encouraging them to shop around on private exchanges, and by offering less generous plans. DThe result is that there are growing numbers of consumers seeking better treatment for less money. Existing health-care providers will
34、 have to adapt, or lose business. All sorts of other businesses, old and new, are seeking either to take market share from the conventional providers, or to provide the software and other tools that help hospitals, doctors, insurers and patients make the most of this new world. EPatients are increas
35、ingly having to pay higher “deductibles(免赔额 )“ out of their own pockets, before the insurance kicks in, to keep the cost of the cover down. So for minor ailments and simple tests, it makes sense for such patients to go to one of the increasing numbers of walk-in clinics, staffed by well-qualified nu
36、rses, on the premises of retail pharmacies such as Walgreens. The prices are clear, the care is cheap and the service is quick. Walgreens has a partnership with Theranos, a diagnostics firm, which offers customers a range of tests from a tiny drop of blood. Walmart, a giant supermarket chain with ma
37、ny in-store pharmacies, also intends to become one of the leading sellers of affordable health services, says Alex Hurd, its product-development chief. FFor injuries and illnesses that are more serious but not immediately life-threatening, lots of “urgent-care centers“ are being opened as an alterna
38、tive to going to a hospital emergency unit. Private-equity firms are pouring money into independent chains of centers. Merchant Medicine, a Consulting firm, reckons that between them, these chains now have just over 1,500 urgent-care centers, up from about 1,300 at the start of 2013. The market is s
39、till fragmented but a national brand could emerge from one of the largest chains, such as Concentra or MedExpress. GSome hospital operators, seeking to cut their costs of care, and choosing to be among the disrupters rather than the disrupted, are also opening urgent-care centers. Aurora Health Care
40、, a Wisconsin-based chain of hospitals and clinics, now has more than 30 of them. HHospital operators are now facing a classic “innovators dilemma“, as described by Clay Christensen, a Harvard business professor. If they persist with their high-cost business model even as their customers discover th
41、at cheaper alternatives are good enough, they will be in trouble. According to Strata Decision Technology, an analytics firm, many hospital groups saw what was coming and started to cut their costs well before the provisions of Obamacare started to bite. One, of the fastest movers is Advocate Health
42、 Care, a hospital operator from Illinois, which says it now earns two-thirds of its revenues from value-based payments. IThe largest chains of for-profit hospitals, such as Tenet Healthcare, HCA and Community Health Systems, are rather profitable. They have trimmed their costs, been conservative wit
43、h capital and, thanks to Obamacare raising the number of Americans with health insurance, now have more patients and fewer bad debts. However, credit-rating agencies are worried about the prospects for the not-for-profit hospitals, which are 60% of the total. With lower margins, and less capital to
44、make investments, they have become targets for takeover, says Jim Bonnette of the Advisory Board Company, another consulting outfit. JAs a result, further consolidation in the hospital business is likely. This could mean greater efficiency and lower costs. But if antitrust authorities are not vigila
45、nt, it may lead to a concentration of market power. If so, the benefits from the efficiencies being wrung out of the hospital system may end up in the pockets of shareholders rather than saving patients and insurers money. KObamacare is also encouraging the creation of all sorts of health-related ad
46、visory and intermediary companies that help care providers, insurers and patients save money. A company called Vitals approaches employees on behalf of their companys health plan, and offers them cash rewards, and a taxi, if they agree to be treated at a cheaper provider. The sums to be saved can be
47、 astonishing: a new cost-comparison tool created by Blue Cross Blue Shield, a big alliance of private health insurers, has found that a colonoscopy(结肠镜检查 )with a biopsy costs $8,489 at one clinic in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, but just $928 at another provider in Greensboro, only 50 miles(80km)or s
48、o away. LCohealo offers a “sharing economy“ solution for hospitals and clinics wanting to make the best use of expensive equipment, in much the same way as Airbnb helps people with spare rooms fill them with paying guests. Doximity is trying to be a Facebook for doctors, letting them refer patients
49、and discuss treatments securely without the blizzard of faxes they rely on today. Grand Rounds is a sort of medical Match, com: an online matchmaker that pairs patients with specialists. As in other industries, administrators are being tempted to switch to renting software and data storage in the online “cloud“ : Athenahealth, a seller of medical back-office software, is trying to get doctors and hospitals to mo
