1、大学英语六级（ 2013年 12月考试改革适用）模拟试卷 153及答案与解析 一、 Part I Writing 1 For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled The Importance of Social Practice. You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words. Write your essay on Answer Sheet 1. 1对于是否应该参加社会实践，大家看法不一 2参加社会实践的重要性
2、 Section A （ A） She doesnt like to go out on Fridays. （ B） She would like to invite the man to the theater. （ C） She wont be able to come to the dinner. （ D） She is grateful to the man for giving her tickets. （ A） The woman will be happy to meet her cousin. （ B） The woman should go to the wedding ce
3、remony. （ C） He plans to go traveling with the woman. （ D） He has never been to California for its far away. （ A） Keep looking for his wallet more carefully. （ B） Report the theft of his wallet as soon as possible. （ C） Make a phone call to the security office immediately. （ D） Be more careful with
4、his possessions in future. （ A） Mary doesnt have much talent for the piano. （ B） Mary taught herself to play the guitar. （ C） Mary prefers to play the guitar now. （ D） Mary got the guitar unexpectedly on her way home. （ A） Postpone his favorite course to the next semester. （ B） Ask the professor to
5、help him choose other courses. （ C） Request permission to take the courses together. （ D） Take the course from a different professor. （ A） Get prepared for her first campus interview. （ B） Polish her resume for more job opportunities. （ C） Visit a famous Electronics company next week. （ D） Apply for
6、 a job to the Electronics Company. （ A） He has never taken part in a debate this year. （ B） He believes the team was eliminated already. （ C） He is too busy to go to the competition with her. （ D） He doesnt know if the team was successful. （ A） Wait and see how she feels in 24 hours. （ B） Go home im
7、mediately and take some medicine. （ C） Return to the grocery store to pick up some aspirin. （ D） Go to the nearby drug store to buy some aspirin. （ A） Food packaging. （ B） Varieties of fish. （ C） A new snack food. （ D） An artificial food flavoring. （ A） To preserve it longer. （ B） To give it a parti
8、cular taste. （ C） To make it smoother. （ D） To increase the fermentation. （ A） Its low purchase price. （ B） Its wide availability. （ C） Its good nutritional value. （ D） Its high water content. （ A） Because the product is out of stock. （ B） Because it will take months to arrive. （ C） Because the food
9、 hasnt been produced yet. （ D） Because the special fish is in short supply. （ A） She forgot the time. （ B） She didnt feel hungry. （ C） She attended a prolonged class. （ D） She ran into an old friend. （ A） He is unable to prevent students from fighting. （ B） He is popular for his devotion to teaching
10、. （ C） His lectures are hard to understand. （ D） He is ignorant of his students health. （ A） They make him feel good. （ B） He is indifferent to them. （ C） They bore him to death. （ D） He is overburdened. Section B （ A） How important money is in ones day-to-day life. （ B） How one spends money shows w
11、hat is important to him. （ C） Money is more important than the philosophy of life. （ D） Ones understanding of life is more important than money. （ A） To test the strength of a friendship. （ B） To bring friends even closer. （ C） To know more people who are in need. （ D） To make your friends feel they
12、 are helpful. （ A） Money is proof of ones value. （ B） Money is a means instead of an end. （ C） Making more money is meaningless. （ D） Money can give great happiness. （ A） It has been selling cupcakes for years. （ B） It sells cupcakes 24 hours everyday. （ C） It only offers one flavor of cupcakes. （ D
13、） It is a sight-seeing spot in New York City. （ A） They see it as a dated concept. （ B） They find it hard to operate. （ C） They appreciate its great service. （ D） They think it has great appeal. （ A） He thinks its stupid to buy a cupcake in the morning. （ B） He has a different opinion from the major
14、ity. （ C） He thinks having one cupcake in the morning is enough. （ D） He stood in line with his co-workers for their cupcakes. （ A） It can be acquired from seafood. （ B） It is good for our bones and teeth. （ C） It is mainly consumed by vegetarians. （ D） It is not as nutritious as it used to be. （ A）
15、 Delicious snacks and mineral water. （ B） Foods that contain much calcium. （ C） Noodles with high carbohydrates. （ D） Fruits that contain vitamins and fibre. （ A） They are allergic to meat, fish and other animal products. （ B） They cannot get over the brutal scenes of killing animals. （ C） Some of t
16、hem think it is morally wrong to kill animals for food. （ D） Some of them believe it is healthier to eat meat and beans. （ A） They refer to transgenic organisms. （ B） They are harmful to the environment. （ C） They are grown in green and clean ways. （ D） They are grown with less harmful chemicals. Se
17、ction C 26 Sport is not only physically challenging, but it can also be mentally challenging. Criticism from coaches, parents, and other teammates, as well as pressure to win can create an【 B1】 _ amount of anxiety or stress for young athletes. Stress can be【 B2】 _, emotional, or psychological, and r
18、esearch has indicated that it can lead to burnout. Burnout has【 B3】 _ dropping or quitting of an activity that was at one time enjoyable. The early years of development are critical years for learning about oneself. The sport setting is one where valuable【 B4】 _ can take place. Young athletes can, f
19、or example, learn how to work together with others, make friends, and gain other social skills that will be used throughout their lives. Coaches and parents should be aware, at all times, that their【 B5】 _ to youngsters can greatly affect their children. Youngsters may take their parents and coaches
20、 criticisms to heart and find a【 B6】 _ in themselves. Coaches and parents should also be careful that youth sport【 B7】 _ does not become work for children. The outcome of the game should not be more important than the process of learning the sport and other life lessons. In todays youth sport settin
21、g, young athletes may be worrying more about who will win instead of enjoying themselves and the sport. Following a game, many parents and coaches direct their attention on the outcome and【 B8】 _ youngsters performances Positive reinforcement should be provided【 B9】 _ the outcome. Research indicates
22、 that positive reinforcement【 B10】 _ and has a greater effect on learning than criticism. Again, criticism can create high levels of stress, which can lead to burnout. 27 【 B1】 28 【 B2】 29 【 B3】 30 【 B4】 31 【 B5】 32 【 B6】 33 【 B7】 34 【 B8】 35 【 B9】 36 【 B10】 Section A 36 Comparisons were drawn betwe
23、en the development of television in the 20th century and the diffusion of printing in the 15th and 16th centuries. Yet much had happened between. As was discussed before, it was not until the 19th century that the newspaper became the dominant pre-electronic【 C1】 _, following in the wake of the pamp
24、hlet and the book and in the company of the periodical. It was during the same time that the communications revolution【 C2】 _up, beginning with transport, the railway, and【 C3】 _on through the telegraph, the telephone, radio, and motion pictures into the 20th-century world of the motor car and the a
25、irplane. Not everyone sees that process in【 C4】 _. It is important to do so. It is generally recognized, however, that the introduction of the computer in the early 20th century, followed by the invention of the integrated circuit during the 1960s,【 C5】_changed the process, although its impact on th
26、e media was not immediately【 C6】 _. As time went by, computers became smaller and more powerful, and they became “personal“ too, as well as institutional, with display becoming sharper and storage【 C7】 _increasing. They were thought of, like people, in terms of generations, with the distance between
27、 generations much smaller. It was within the computer age that the term “information society“ began to be widely used to describe the context within which we now live. The communications revolution has【 C8】 _both work and leisure and how we think and feel both about place and time, but there have be
28、en【 C9】 _views about its economic, political, social and cultural implications. “Benefits“ have been weighed against “harmful“【 C10】 _. And generalizations have proved difficult. A)speeded B)universal C)leading D)impressed E)influenced F)territory G)capacity H)radically I)controversial J)presumably
29、K)perspective L)outcomes M)apparent N)distracting O)medium 37 【 C1】 38 【 C2】 39 【 C3】 40 【 C4】 41 【 C5】 42 【 C6】 43 【 C7】 44 【 C8】 45 【 C9】 46 【 C10】 Section B 46 Are Teenagers Really Careless About Online Privacy? AThey share, like, everything. How they feel about a song, their maths homework, life
30、(it sucks). Where theyll be next; who theyre with now. Photos, of themselves and others, doing stuff they quite probably shouldnt be. Theyre the digital natives, fresh-minted citizens of a humming online world. Theyve grown upare still growing upwith texting, Facebook, Line, Snapchat. Theyre the you
31、ng, and they couldnt care less about privacy. At least, thats the assumption. But amid a rash of revelations about government surveillance(监视 ), it seems its wrong. Young people do care, a lot, about privacyjust not the kind of privacy that exercises their parents. BTrue, young people post informati
32、on about themselves online that horrifies their elders. There remains “a basic lack of awareness“ about “the potential longer-term impact of information leaks“, says Andy Phippen, professor of social responsibility in information technology at Plymouth University. “Many younger people just dont thin
33、k in terms of their future employability, of identity theft, of legal problems if theyre being provocative. Not to mention straightforward reputational issues.“(Paris Brown, Phippen adds, “clearly never thought what she tweeted when she was 14“ might one day stop her being Britains first youth polic
34、e commissioner.) CFar more should be done in schools to teach children to be more concerned about the future impact of their online profile and reputation, Phippen argues. But the fact that they make mistakes does not mean they dont care about privacy. In fact, a report in May by the Pew Internet an
35、d the American Life Project found teenagers cared enough about online security for 60% to set their Facebook profiles to “private“ and to judge privacy settings “not difficult at all“ to manage. A similar number said they routinely delete past posts, block people, and post comments only particular v
36、iewerstypically, close friendswould understand. “You have to think about what privacy means,“ says Danah Boyd, a leading youth and social media researcher. “What matters to them is social privacy: its about how to control a social situation, which is something very different from controlling informa
37、tion.“ DThe Pew report found that only 9% of teens were “very“ concerned about third parties like companies or government agencies accessing their personal informationcompared with nearly half of their parents. Most young people have precious little idea of how much data social networking sites are
38、collecting on thembut they tend, on the whole, to be quite relaxed about the idea, particularly if it comes as a trade-off for free use of the service. ETeens, Boyd says, tend to be concerned not by unknown third parties accessing data about them, but by “things that might be seen by the people who
39、have power over them: parents, teachers, college admissions officers. The concern is more about your mother looking at your Facebook profile than government agencies or advertisers using data youve shared.“ FYoung people are concerned, in other words, about getting into trouble. But that concern is
40、every bit as real. So teens now manage their online security with “a whole set of strategies“, says Boyd. Many dont tell the truth online: according to the Pew Internet study, 26% of teen social media users say they post fake information like a false name, age or location. Others are more subtle. Bo
41、yd uses the term “social steganography(隐写术 )“ to describe the practice of more than 50% of young people who use in-jokes and obscure references to effectively encode what they post. GNonetheless, says Mary Madden, co-author of the Pew Internet report, all the signs are young people today are increas
42、ingly “practising good judgment. Theyll say, I use a filter in my brain; they do a lot of profile pruning(剪切 ), deleting and editing content, deleting tags. Theres a new awareness.“ This generation has, after all, “grown up, learned to function in a world of social surveillance“, says Madden. “Far f
43、rom being privacy-indifferent, they are mindful of what they post. They have a sense that adults are watching.“ HThat sentiment may in part explain the recent popularity of new social networking services like Insta-gram and Snapchat, says Madden: “Some feel the burden of the public nature of social
44、networking. Theyre creating smaller groups with these new services.“ ISnapchat in particular appeals because it allows users to send annotated pictures, videos and messages to a controlled list of friendsand, crucially, to set a time limit for how long they can be viewed before they disappear and ar
45、e deleted. Overall, confirms Madden, “Were seeing a pattern that runs counter to the assumption that theres this sea of young people who just dont care about privacy. Its not borne out by the data. And in some cases, they actually have stronger opinions than some adults.“ JThat certainly seems to be
46、 the picture emerging from two polls conducted earlier this year by the Pew Research Centre for the People and the Press with the Washington Post and USA Today, in the wake of Edward Snowdens revelations about broad surveillance by state security services. In the first of these polls, on 10 June, yo
47、unger respondents proved much more likely than older to put personal privacy above an anti-terrorism probe: 45% of 18-to-29-year-olds said personal privacy was more important, even if protecting it limited the ability to investigate terrorist threatscompared with 35% in the 30-to-49 age range, and 2
48、7% of the over-50s. KThe second poll, on 17 June, asked whether Snowdens leaks of classified information about the NSAs phone and email surveillance programmes was in the public interest. It found that people under 30 were the only age group in which “a clear majority“60%felt the revelations served
49、the public interest. Older age groups were either divided, or thought the disclosures harmed the public interest. Similarly, 13-to-29 year-olds were less likely to feel Snowden should be prosecuted: fully 50% felt he should not be, against 44% who thought he should. That compares with 63% of over-50s who wanted see the whistleblower(告密者 )pursued. LCarroll Doherty, co-author of the second report, said pr
