1、大学英语六级（ 2013年 12月考试改革适用）模拟试卷 15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 On Students Evaluation of Teachers following the outline given below. You should write at least 750 words hut no more than 200 words. Write your essay on Answer Sheet 1
2、. 1近年来，很多大学把学生对教师的评价纳入教学评估体系 2就其利弊而言，人们观点不一 3我的看法 On Students Evaluation of Teachers Section A （ A） The woman shouldnt have missed the lecture. （ B） The woman should have paid attention to the bulletin. （ C） The woman shouldnt have believed the bulletin. （ D） The woman should contact her professor f
3、irst. （ A） Smiths stories are mostly for youngsters. （ B） Young people lack logic thinking. （ C） The man doesnt think much of Smiths novels. （ D） The man likes Smiths illogical stories. （ A） She wont risk her job now for a possibly better one. （ B） Shes satisfied with her present position. （ C） She
4、doesnt like putting all eggs in one basket. （ D） She finds it hard to look for a new job. （ A） Online shopping has more disadvantages. （ B） It is a waste of money to shop online. （ C） Information on some websites isnt reliable. （ D） Online shopping may not benefit consumers. （ A） The man seems to be
5、 responsible for himself. （ B） The woman is critical of other people. （ C） The man is addicted to smoking. （ D） The woman cant accept the mans excuse. （ A） She should have her toothache cured first. （ B） She should continue her treatment for headache. （ C） She should take care of herself. （ D） She s
6、hould have a physical check-up. （ A） The works arent as individual as what the woman thought. （ B） The art show displays works of the same subject. （ C） The art show should have displayed works of different subjects. （ D） The woman is dissatisfied with the art show. （ A） The woman doesnt know how to
7、 read a map. （ B） The woman has a weak sense of direction. （ C） The man has also got lost in the forest. （ D） The man can tell directions via the shadows. （ A） The enrolment form. （ B） The handbook. （ C） Australia and Its People. （ D） The description of the courses. （ A） At this moment. （ B） After h
8、e selects courses. （ C） At the end of the first year. （ D） At the end of the first semester. （ A） Getting 9 points each year. （ B） Getting 24 points each year. （ C） Getting 12 points each semester. （ D） Getting 9 points each semester. （ A） The National Bank. （ B） The Spanish Department. （ C） The Jon
9、es and French Company. （ D） A company in Rome. （ A） He can speak a little Italian. （ B） He knows a lot of German. （ C） He is good at French. （ D） He speaks Spanish fluently. （ A） There are four children in the family. （ B） Tom is too young to start schooling. （ C） Jane must be the eldest in his fami
10、ly. （ D） Billy would be a student next year. （ A） She is in the third grade. （ B） She is in the second grade. （ C） She is in the kindergarten. （ D） She is still at home. Section B （ A） The tie will disappear within British firms. （ B） 75% businessmen will be asked to wear ties. （ C） T-shirts will be
11、 more popular than before. （ D） British firms will require employees to work with ties. （ A） There wont be ties in medium enterprises in 20 years. （ B） Most people believe the tie would disappear in 10 years. （ C） Most people believe the tie will be eliminated sooner or later. （ D） The tie has becom
12、e a victim of the poll. （ A） They do not have extra money to buy ties. （ B） They want to minimize their expense. （ C） They believe ties are very inconvenient. （ D） They want themselves to feel relaxed. （ A） They are the mysteries in the sea. （ B） They are the treasured landmarks. （ C） They mean litt
13、le for the American people. （ D） They are valuable castles. （ A） It is the seventh wonder of the ancient world. （ B） It is the tallest structure at present. （ C） It has been ever damaged by earthquakes. （ D） It was reconstructed for good in 1480. （ A） They have been replaced by the advanced satellit
14、e and radio signals. （ B） Captains thought them useless during their voyage. （ C） They have been swallowed by the sea. （ D） Only small boats could use them. （ A） He is a popular football player. （ B） He is a handsome actor from vampire series. （ C） He has a period of wonderful true love. （ D） He has
15、 listed the top ten attractive guys around the world. （ A） Tourists can spot the hottest men. （ B） The countrys football export is the finest. （ C） It has excellent genes and many European attractions. （ D） It is associated with the most passionate dance on the planet. （ A） Its beautiful boys cycle
16、elegantly between the famous canals. （ B） Its charming males catch the hearts of female tourists. （ C） Its men offer desirable dates in red light district. （ D） True Blood wins a lot of females hearts. （ A） The blonde fellows who like making fun and surfing. （ B） The fair-haired intellectuals. （ C）
17、The blonde fellows with good looks. （ D） The fellows who attract women over snacks and wine. Section C 26 Just having a break from work is not enough, a new research suggests. It is【 B1】_in the open air that have the strongest restorative effects on our mental states. Everyone gets down sometimes it
18、s only【 B2】 _It would be more unusual never to be【 B3】 _The idea that depression is a condition with a purely chemical【 B4】 _is a myth no psychologist would agree. The causes of depression can be many and widespread. But one of the many causes for us is to have to【 B5】 _our work. One of the main wea
19、pons against stress building up from work is going on【 B6】_However, the new research, published in the Journal of Environmental Psychology, finds that all holidays are not equal because not every holiday is an【 B7】_way of allowing mind and body to recover. The lead author of this paper, Hartig, live
20、s and works in Sweden, a country well known for its long, dark winters. As such, the people living there know the importance of getting out in the sunshine, when it finally arrives. There is even a law requiring employers to provide four consecutive weeks of holiday in the summer. And its actually t
21、his law that【 B8】 _Hartigs findings. Hartig and colleagues suggest that being stuck indoors to spend your leisure time can limit mental recovery.【 B9】 _, when roam outdoors, we can exert ourselves at favorite sports or simply linger in the park. This is a nice theory that is intuitively【 B10】 _and p
22、lausible. The problem is how to test it scientifically. 27 【 B1】 28 【 B2】 29 【 B3】 30 【 B4】 31 【 B5】 32 【 B6】 33 【 B7】 34 【 B8】 35 【 B9】 36 【 B10】 Section A 36 There is little argument that Pablo Picasso(1881-1973)is the 20th centurys greatest and most influential artist. Picasso was a genius. His p
23、aintings, drawings, prints, and【 C1】 _reveal endless creativity and passion for life. His works【 C2】 _ from realistic to abstract: the Blue, Rose, and African periods, Analytical and Synthetic Cubism, Neo-Classicism, Surrealism. Picasso was not true to a【 C3】 _He was true to the power of personal ex
24、pression. Picassos Guernica is enormous. It measures【 C4】 _11 x 25 feet and has an astonishing physical presence. Just as tragic news reports and photos appeared in newsprint, the mural(壁画 )is limited to tones of black, white, and gray. The viewer is【 C5】 _by the drama; there is no escape from facin
25、g the horror. Picasso fills the wide rectangular(长方形的 )canvas with【 C6】 _human and animal forms. The chaos and panic of the bomb scene is shown in flat, Cubist planes. Animals and humans are reduced to simple, angular shapes that increase the tension and frantic movement. Body parts are disjointed f
26、rom violent destruction. And facial features are【 C7】 _in pain. Figures are shown from multiple【 C8】 _The viewer is aware of all aspects of their suffering. No matter their pose, the dead and living communicated their situation with a pair of eyes. Picasso said: “We all know that Art is not truth. A
27、rt is a(n) 【 C9】 _that makes us realize truth. “ The attack on Guernica inspired the passion and genius of Pablo Picasso to reveal his truth about war: war is not about power and glory, war is about pain, suffering, and death. Although Guernica was created in 1937, the universal truth of the work tr
28、anscends decades and borders. It is as powerful a(n) 【 C10】 _image in the 21st century, as in the 20th. A)approximately F)perspectives K)prospects B)sculptures G)abstract L)overweighed C)style H)lie M)prescriptions D)range I)distorted N)shape E)overwhelmed J)symbolic O)appropriately 37 【 C1】 38 【 C2
29、】 39 【 C3】 40 【 C4】 41 【 C5】 42 【 C6】 43 【 C7】 44 【 C8】 45 【 C9】 46 【 C10】 Section B 46 Rainforest City A)A patch of tropical rainforest has twice the number of mammal species, five times the bats and birds and ten times the types of tree than an identical sized patch of temperate forest. Explaining
30、 this diversity is extremely difficult, but much of the answer lies in the unique complexity, productivity and dynamism of the place. These three features have simultaneously fed upon each other to erect and populate the equivalent of vast, buzzing metropolises in the living world. B)In fact, the mo
31、re we look at the rainforest, the more we see parallels with a city. Just like a city, the rainforest has “guilds“ groups that share a common livelihood. Where the city may have guilds of locksmiths and fishmongers(鱼贩 ), the rainforest has guilds of understorey nectar-eaters and emergent epiphytes(附
32、生植物 ). C)And. just as a large city offers more employment opportunities than a small town, the rainforest has significantly more guilds than other habitats. This is partly due to its more complex structure the fact that there is an understorey means species can find a livelihood in the understorey b
33、ut the rainforest is also effectively open all year and so it offers employment that is simply not available in other habitats. D)A deckchair attendant in Britain has to do odd jobs in the winter, but in Thailand its a year-round occupation. Similarly, no animal can be just a seed-eater in an oak fo
34、rest, because acorns only fall in autumn. In the rainforest, seeds are always falling from the canopy(树冠 )， and so seed-eating is a legitimate profession it has its own guild. Similarly, due to the year-round demand in cities, specialists such as carpet-cleaners, copywriters and couriers can thrive,
35、 while in a small town, they are absent. E)The rainforest “job market“ is also enormous as a result of its permanently booming “economy“. In nature, energy is the currency, and the incredible productivity of the rainforest ensures that theres always enough of it around to enable millions of species
36、to live side by side. And, to avoid competition, natural selection has made sure that, even within a guild there are tiny differences in the diets, habitats or behaviours of each member. F)The rainforest could therefore be regarded as a vast association of specialists, a community of animals and pla
37、nts that ply their own very particular trade. In insects, the specialisation is extreme. Most live on only one or two species of plant. One tree in Panama was found to have 163 species of beetles that were exclusive to that type of tree. G)Most rainforest plants protect their leaves with poisons. In
38、 order to eat a plants leaves, the insects have to evolve to become tolerant to its particular cocktail of toxins(毒素 ). After thousands of years, most herbivorous insects are committed to living on their host plant alone. H)So, every poison-laced rainforest tree has a whole community of species livi
39、ng on, under and around it that are not found anywhere else. This situation is not unique to the rainforest. The same happens in Britain. In oak or Scots pine forests, a host of species live on just the oak trees or Scots pines. But the fact is that in these forests, virtually every tree is an oak o
40、r a Scots pine. I)What makes the rainforest so special, and so diverse, is that in one hectare there can be 300 different types of tree, each with its own exclusive community. In one tract of forest there are thousands, and worldwide there could be up to 50 000 canopy-tree species. To an insect, the
41、 rainforest isnt just one job market, but thousands of different job markets, all located in the same city. J)This “mosaic(组合 )of trees“ is probably the single most important cause of diversity in the rainforest, and yet we dont really understand how it happens that is, why you dont normally find gr
42、oves of trees in the rainforest. K)It could be that the 50 000 different trees suit 50 000 different types of plot and that the best tree for the spot excludes all the others. Or, it could be that all the trees are as “good“ as each other and that the forest is trapped in an endless game of tick-tac
43、k-toe(三连游戏 )with no ultimate winner. Or, it could be that some species are better than the others and are in the process of taking over, but because this process would take centuries, they never quite manage it before something such as a storm or landslide puts them back to square one. L)But none of
44、 these explanations answers a simple question: if this is true for the rainforest, why isnt it true for an oak forest in England? The only theory that solves this puzzle is one that looks back to animals for an answer. Remember the guild of seed-eaters? In the rainforest a long list of species belon
45、gs to this guild. M)There are beetles and weevils(象鼻虫 ), squirrels and mice, rats, birds and larger mammals such as forest pigs, deer and tapirs. When this gang finds a tree in fruit, they feast until virtually no seed survives. The only seeds that are spared are those scattered far and wide, lying
46、alone on the forest floor. It is these seeds that will go on to create the next generation of canopy trees one that, like the previous generation, is also scattered far and wide. N)This is how the seed-eaters might create a mosaic of trees by stopping any one tree from becoming too common. It wouldn
47、t happen in an English oak forest because there is no guild of seed-eaters its not a year-round occupation. O)No one doubts that the rainforest is extremely valuable, but not everyone sees this value in the same way. Timber merchants, for example, see one kind of value, and environmentalists see ano
48、ther. To many scientists, a rainforest is most valuable when left alone to prosper without human interference, but with a growing human population, a global market for extracted goods and the extent of poverty around the equator, an evaluation of the rainforest has to be more practical than this. P)
49、A new breed of rainforest valuation attempts to fit into the accounting books of nations and international organisations. It speaks the language of accountants, costs both the benefits of an intact rainforest and the losses of a vanished one, works out a forests “natural capital“ and assesses its contribution to “environmental services“. Its grand conclusion: each hectare of intact rainforest is worth about 4 500. It may not soun
