1、大学英语六级（ 2013年 12月考试改革适用）模拟试卷 167及答案与解析 一、 Part I Writing 1 For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay entitled It Pays to Be Honest by commenting on the saying, “Honesty is the best policy.“ You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words. Write your essay on Answer S
2、heet 1. Section A （ A） He always likes something more challenging. （ B） He wants to live nearer to his family. （ C） He wants to put his administration knowledge into practice. （ D） He did reporting before and was interested in journalism. （ A） Administrative news. （ B） General social concerns. （ C）
3、Financial news. （ D） Local news. （ A） Shocked. （ B） Acceptable. （ C） Incredible. （ D） Indifferent. （ A） She only wants to hire local people. （ B） She lived in the city for a long time. （ C） She will send the employees everywhere. （ D） She wants to know more about applicants. （ A） Choosing courses. （
4、 B） Preordering textbooks. （ C） Dealing with used books. （ D） Looking for part-time jobs. （ A） Names of the recommended books. （ B） The name and number of her professor. （ C） A letter of recommendation from the supervisor. （ D） The course names and the schedule numbers. （ A） When she gets the books.
5、 （ B） When the classes begin. （ C） When she hands in the form. （ D） When she is able to pay. （ A） If she changes classes. （ B） If the books are used. （ C） If she wants to sell them. （ D） If the books are needed by others. Section B （ A） Traffic accidents. （ B） Radiation. （ C） Train travel. （ D） Air
6、crash. （ A） When the sun is very active and explosions occur. （ B） When it is less than 1,500 miles away from the earth. （ C） When bad weather occurs more frequently. （ D） When there is less forest on the earth. （ A） They are too far away from the earth. （ B） Our skin is immune to the radiation. （ C
7、） The ozonosphere protects us from it. （ D） The trees can absorb the radiation. （ A） It forces one to form pictures in the mind. （ B） It provides many interesting programs. （ C） It teaches people how to imagine things. （ D） It shows vivid pictures to the listeners. （ A） It can improve ones listening
8、 skills. （ B） It gives immediate replies to the listeners. （ C） People can get more immediate information. （ D） People can listen to the programs for free. （ A） People in radio programs are more active than in television. （ B） People can call the radio station and express opinions. （ C） Radio statio
9、ns have more topics and fewer commercials. （ D） Radio stations always accept the opinions of listeners. （ A） The benefit of listening to radio programs. （ B） The main disadvantages of televisions. （ C） The advantages of radio compared with television. （ D） The development of radio and television. Se
10、ction C （ A） The Internet that brings buyers and sellers together. （ B） The founders with a successful business background. （ C） The sound management that helps making money. （ D） The enormous financial power derived from production. （ A） She likes all the senior staff in the company very much. （ B）
11、 She has recently bought an experienced management team. （ C） She had already been successful before founding eBay. （ D） She was the first CEO to emphasize profitability in eBay. （ A） Because the online marketplace that it provides sells goods quickly. （ B） Because they have sales assistants to deal
12、 with the capital effectively. （ C） Because their capital is not used in buildings, factories, and warehouses. （ D） Because they produce, sell and ship things in an extremely efficient way. （ A） They are too late to occupy some of the important markets. （ B） The sellers have stolen goods and sold th
13、em through eBay. （ C） The buyers have often put in false bids to increase the price. （ D） They encounter the bottleneck after 11 years of development. （ A） It is unaccepted by so many students. （ B） It is taken directly from students salary. （ C） It becomes low when the loan is received. （ D） It beg
14、ins right after the loan is received. （ A） Because many jobs require both the degree and work experience. （ B） Because the British companies emphasize more on work experience. （ C） Because now graduates are always not willing to start at the bottom. （ D） Because a university degree nowadays is no lo
15、nger worth the tuition. （ A） 1.96 million. （ B） 19.6 million. （ C） 1.97 million. （ D） 19.7 million. （ A） Feeling is expressed by using “I feel as if.“ （ B） Feeling is expressed by using “I feel it.“ （ C） Thought is expressed by using “I feel like.“ （ D） Thought is expressed by using “I feel + adj.“
16、（ A） Showing other people how much we care about them. （ B） Respecting the feelings and emotions of other people. （ C） Understanding and analyze our emotions thoroughly. （ D） Practising getting a positive value from our emotions. （ A） Ask them why they ignore your feelings. （ B） Listen to them in a
17、non-judgmental way. （ C） Criticize, advise, control or lecture them. （ D） Try not to spend too much time with them. Section A 26 Our bodies experience an ebb and flow of energy throughout the day. This is called a circadian rhythm, and it has been studied【 C1】 _by scientists. Our energy level builds
18、 gradually to a peak, then【 C2】 _, reaching a trough about 12 hours later. The exact nature of this cycle varies from person to person, and so do our【 C3】_for activity versus rest Our natural rhythms are【 C4】 _by internal drives and external stimulation. Typically, external stimulation wins out over
19、 what our internal guide tells us. For example, when we fly across six time zones, we have to fit into a different time frame whether we like it or not. The same is true when we work the night shift. These are【 C5】 _examples of what most of us experience every day on the job. So here we are, many of
20、 us working hours that are【 C6】 _to what our internal rhythms would prefer. Too bad. Or is it? Some forward-looking companies are looking at internal rhythms as they【 C7】_to productivity and are finding that a mid-afternoon nap increases work output and【 C8】 _. But can naptime really fit into the Am
21、erican workday? While experts seem to agree that napping is a good idea, the reality of napping is probably a long shot at best. There are lots of reasons for this. One is the need for predictability and standardization in the workplace,【 C9】 _in companies that do business around the world. Another
22、is the longstanding American work ethic that【 C10】 _total commitment from beginning to end of the workday. Napping is viewed as slacking, a real no-no for the go-getter who wants to get ahead. A)contrary E)prior I)especially M)extreme B)exclaimed F)demands J)relate N)declines C)extensively G)prefere
23、nces K)specifically O)appropriate D)affected H)impact L)accuracy 27 【 C1】 28 【 C2】 29 【 C3】 30 【 C4】 31 【 C5】 32 【 C6】 33 【 C7】 34 【 C8】 35 【 C9】 36 【 C10】 Section B 36 Join the “Sleep Challenge“ ADid you get enough sleep last night? Probably not. “We are a nation of sleep-deprived women,“ says Cind
24、i Leive, editor-in-chief of Glamour magazine. While everyone in college burns the candle at both ends, Leive says womens sleep problems only get worse with the arrival of kids and careers. After a while, she says, you begin to think that its selfish to put your own need for sleep ahead of all of you
25、r familys needs and all the items on your to-do list. Its a self-defeating strategy because when youre tired, you cant accomplish as much as you can when youre rested. You never win. BLeive and Arianna Huffington are out to change that dynamic through Sleep Challenge 2010, a joint venture between Gl
26、amour and The Huffington Post that began at the beginning of the year and will continue through the end of the month. Both women are blogging on their sites about their own experiences and including lots of helpful tips for readers who want to join in. Leive said she and Huffington came up with the
27、idea when they met last summer on a panel about women and power at Maria Shrivers Womens Conference in California. They agreed that fatigue was the one complaint all women shared no matter where they stood on the corporate ladder. Leive suggested that the two challenge each other to see who could do
28、 the best job of improving their sleep. CIt was “half in joke,“ Leive says, but the idea began to seem better and better the more they thought about it. Studies show that adults who dont get enough sleep increase their risk of heart disease and mood disorders. Theyre more likely to get into car acci
29、dents. Their concentration and thinking is impaired. And theyre even more likely to gain weight. “I was shocked when I started reading the research to find the links between sleep and virtually every other health problem,“ Leive says. “I know that I could reduce my risk of a million different diseas
30、es by eating better and exercising, but sometimes those things are hard. Sleeps easy.“ DWell, maybe not so easy, according to the blog posts. Its clear that “challenge“ is the right word for their effort. In one of her first posts, Huffington wrote about how she was tempted to stay up late talking t
31、o her daughter, who was home from college. “She, of course, can sleep all morning if she wants,“ Huffington wrote. “I have to be up at 6:30.“ Huffington tried to resolve the situation by having a “chat-filled dinner,“ going to a movie with her daughter, and then going to a coffee house for a caffein
32、e-free “nightcap.“ EFor Leive, one of her most difficult moments so far was getting out of bed on the weekend close to her weekday wake-up time. “Going to bed at 11 p.m. this Saturday night and then getting up at 6:30 a.m. the next morning made me feel a little like a third-grader,“ Leive wrote. “Pl
33、us, I felt irrationally annoyed at my husband, who got to lie in bed until 9.“ But, she admits, she felt “awesome“ after getting the extra rest. FRecent nights have been less successful. Huffington, who lives in Los Angeles, wrote that she “fell off the wagon“ on day 11 when two friends from Washing
34、ton were in town. “Everyone was having such a great time no one wanted it to end including me,“ she wrote. “My compatriot(同胞 )Zorba the Greek suddenly popped into my head, reminding me that life is about living each moment fully. You cant let anything, Zorba whispered in my ear, even something as po
35、sitive as the sleep challenge, get in the way of fully embracing the moment. So I surrendered to my inner Zorba.“ Huffington says she paid for staying up until 2:30 a.m. by being exhausted the next afternoon. GLeive had a bad night as well. After a later-than-usual dinner with friends, she tried to
36、get a full nights rest but woke up in the middle of the night and found herself“mentally scrolling(翻滚 )through my to-do list.“ She couldnt get back to sleep as she worried about unfinished tasks. One problem on that night, she said, might have been the glass of wine she had at dinner. Alcohol can di
37、srupt sleep if you drink it too close to bedtime. HEven with this less-than-perfect performance, theres no question that Leive and Huffington are publicizing a major health issue for women. According to the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, womens sleep tends to be lighter and more easily disturbe
38、d than mens. Women are also more likely to wake up saying they dont feel rested even after theyve had a full night of sleep. Young working mothers have a particularly difficult time getting the rest they need. IInsomnia(失眠 )may seem like an inevitable side effect of modem life, but it can also be a
39、sign that something else is wrong. “You should take it seriously if it has been going on for two to three weeks,“ says Dr. Mary Susan Esther, a sleep doctor. “If youre really struggling, then you need to see a physician.“ Sleep problems could be triggered by a mood disorder like depression. Other po
40、ssible causes include medication you might be taking, hormonal changes, or just bad sleep habits. JIf theres nothing physically wrong, Esther offers four tips to get your sleep back on track. 1. Have a standard wake-up time. KYou cant always control the hour that you actually fall asleep, but you ca
41、n make yourself get up at the same time every day. If you stick to that schedule, eventually you should find yourself falling asleep more easily. Thats something both Leive and Huffington have been doing. And that also means that you have to get up early on weekends as well, as Leive did so painfull
42、y. Esther says your weekend wake-up time should be no more than an hour later than your regular wake-up time. “The most common night to have problems sleeping is Sunday night because youre worried about Monday and you slept in on Sunday,“ Esther says. 2. Make sure you have downtime before bed. LYour
43、 body needs a signal that its almost time for sleep. Most parents do this with their kids by giving them a bath, then reading them a story a regular bedtime routine. Adults need this as well, so shut off computers and TVs at least an hour before you want to be asleep. Lowering the lights in the hous
44、e helps as well: this signals your brain that its the end of the day. 3. Avoid caffeine after noon. MYes, its hard especially with a Starbucks on every corner. But it takes many hours for the caffeine to work through your system and if you have a cup of coffee or tea at dinner, it will interfere wit
45、h your ability to get to sleep. That also applies to soft drinks that contain caffeine and even chocolate. 4. Make sleep a priority. NYou need to schedule sleep time just like everything else. Its not of little significance. It all sounds simple, but as Leive and Huffington have found, reforming lon
46、g-held sleep habits takes real effort. Leive admits shes a little uncertain about what will happen when the month-long challenge ends. “I am sure I will have a relapse(故态复萌 )when theres a string of nights where I want to be up until 2 in the morning,“ she says. But, she adds, “I hope some of it will
47、 stick.“ 37 It takes real effort to avoid a relapse into bad sleep habits. 38 Doctors recommend that people have a regular wake-up time. 39 It is found that womens sleep quality is generally lower than mens. 40 Sticking to a regular wake-up time helps you fall asleep more easily. 41 Staying up too l
48、ate at night can result in being exhausted the next day. 42 People who dont sleep well are more likely to be involved in a car accident. 43 Lowering the lights, like giving a kid a bath, is a signal that its time for sleep. 44 Studies found that people who dont get enough sleep are more likely to ge
49、t heart disease. 45 According to an editor, womens sleep problems become more prominent among working mothers. 46 Two women were talking on their sites about their own experiences, and they agreed that women should sleep more. Section C 46 Thousands of students, faculty and staff boycotted classes and staged rallies across the 10-campus University of California(UC)on Thursday to protest dramatic cuts to the systems budget and proposed additional hike
