1、大学英语六级（ 2013年 12月考试改革适用）模拟试卷 16及答案与解析 一、 Part I Writing 1 For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay commenting on the remark “Jack of all trades and master of none.“ You can cite examples to illustrate your point. You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words. Writ
2、e your essay on Answer Sheet 1. Section A （ A） The woman had better sleep for a while. （ B） The woman had better do some physical exercises. （ C） The woman had better continue the final report. （ D） The woman had better hurry to finish her report. （ A） What to do that afternoon. （ B） How to start th
3、eir project. （ C） When to discuss the project. （ D） When to return books to the library. （ A） By bike. （ B） By bus. （ C） By taxi. （ D） On foot. （ A） The man felt sorry for reading the womans report. （ B） The man has discarded the womans report by mistake. （ C） The woman has printed her report. （ D）
4、The woman has finished her report on the computer. （ A） She likes to write letters. （ B） She hasnt seen her friends lately. （ C） She is eager to get the mans care. （ D） She lives together with the man. （ A） She didnt know how she had finished it so early. （ B） She wasnt able to manage the project we
5、ll. （ C） She was not sure how to solve the mystery. （ D） She didnt think it was shocking. （ A） To ask for others to solve the problem. （ B） To approach the problem step by step. （ C） To take some pills and then rest a bit. （ D） To try using addition first. （ A） The camera didnt work. （ B） He had no
6、money to buy the film. （ C） The film hasnt been processed yet. （ D） He didnt have enough film. （ A） Check-in only takes a few minutes but check-out does not. （ B） The swimming pool costs customers a lot. （ C） The waiters work well and the dish they recommend is nice. （ D） The high tip is unbelievabl
7、e which the guests dislike. （ A） Nobody checks in except at weekends. （ B） The hotel is full except at weekends. （ C） It is too full to afford any tourist at weekends. （ D） It is so crowded that tourists should make reservations. （ A） He couldnt check his e-mails because of the Internet connection p
8、roblem. （ B） He couldnt receive his letters because of the waiters carelessness. （ C） He couldnt order meals in his room because of lacking menus. （ D） He couldnt sleep well because of the noise outside. （ A） Guests give their tips to the manager instead of waiters. （ B） Guests put their tips in the
9、 box at the reception desk. （ C） Guests never give tips to the waiters at weekdays. （ D） Guests put the tips in the room when they check out. （ A） He is too old to pronounce every word clearly. （ B） He is so young that his teaching style is unacceptable. （ C） He is too old-fashioned to give students
10、 new concepts. （ D） His lecture is too difficult to understand. （ A） Communicating is the only way to get high marks. （ B） Exams dont require rote learning but practicing. （ C） Memorizing what you have learnt is the key point. （ D） Communicating and memorizing are both important in exams. （ A） She i
11、s an understanding teacher whose oral English is understandable. （ B） She lives in a small town in the middle of America now. （ C） She taught the students a phrase “with flying birds“ which was very useful. （ D） She only assigned a little homework to make the students relaxed. Section B （ A） They ar
12、e facing bankruptcy. （ B） Many of them are about to be fired. （ C） They are thinking about job-hopping. （ D） They are under great working pressure. （ A） They grew up in the single-parent families. （ B） They are well-educated. （ C） They havent had their own houses. （ D） They have been married for yea
13、rs. （ A） Take no care about him. （ B） Raise their children. （ C） Introduce work to him. （ D） Help him pay his debt. （ A） It is normal for women to dress up. （ B） It costs them too much money. （ C） It is an investment for their futures. （ D） Its not worth spending time on it. （ A） She did part-time j
14、obs in a restaurant. （ B） She worked as a newscaster. （ C） She studied really hard. （ D） She joined many clubs. （ A） She made many mistakes while reporting. （ B） She often forgot her lines while reporting. （ C） She couldnt focus her mind on the news. （ D） She added personal emotions to the stories.
15、（ A） She was a good listener instead of a talker only. （ B） She had made great contributions to her career. （ C） She was good at accepting different views. （ D） She had courage to express her real ideas. （ A） They are superior in location and good in design. （ B） They are set up in crowded supermark
16、ets. （ C） People would feel at home in these shops. （ D） Their layouts always cost several billion dollars. （ A） The customers occasionally receive mail ads. （ B） The ads are printed on the leaflets. （ C） The ads always attract young consumers. （ D） They are the print ads with strong visual impact.
17、（ A） They think the taste of Haagen-Dazs is special. （ B） They like the environment in Haagen-Dazs shops. （ C） They take Haagen-Dazs as a love token. （ D） They think Haagen-Dazs is a symbol of status. Section C 26 Caffeine will get you going during the day but could leave you tossing and turning at
18、nightunless youre a “night owl“【 B1】 _, a new study suggests. In the study, “morning people“ who【 B2】 _caffeine during the day appeared more likely than late risers to【 B3】 _in the middle of their nighttime sleep. Fifty college students were asked to【 B4】 _ their caffeine consumption and their sleep
19、ing and waking times for a week. The students wore【 B5】 _devices that monitored their movements to【 B6】 _whether they had periods of wakefulness after they had fallen asleep. The researchers also【 B7】 _caffeine levels in the students saliva(唾液 )over the week. As college students, they tended to be s
20、o【 B8】 _ that, for most, “it didnt matter how much caffeine they had!“ They slept well whenever they finally hit the sack, said study researcher Jamie Zeitzer, an assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University. However, the more caffeine in their bodies, the more ti
21、me they spent awake during the night after【 B9】 _falling asleep. This, was not seen in the night owls. The amount of caffeine in a person at bedtime can vary widely. Some peoples bodies clear caffeine within a few hours, but lunchtime coffee may still be【 B10】 _other people even late at night. There
22、fore its hard to say whether any particular person could avoid the effects of caffeine on sleep by simply steering clear of coffee(or tea)in the afternoon or evening, Zeitzer said. 27 【 B1】 28 【 B2】 29 【 B3】 30 【 B4】 31 【 B5】 32 【 B6】 33 【 B7】 34 【 B8】 35 【 B9】 36 【 B10】 Section A 36 Sodium(钠 )is a
23、key component of salt. Eating too much of it can【 C1】 _to high blood pressure, a major risk for most people as they age because it can lead to heart disease and other health problems. But cutting sodium from the diet is difficult, mainly because people often dont know its there. More than three-quar
24、ters of the sodium people【 C2】 _ comes from processed and restaurant foods. And much of the sodium we eat is in foods that dont【 C3】 _taste salty, like packaged bread and chicken dishes. Salt is the latest front in the battle to get Americans to eat a healthier diet.【 C4】_efforts have focused on cut
25、ting down on sugar, to fight against obesity, and reducing fat, for a healthier heart. After four decades of unsuccessfully【 C5】_Americans to cut salt in their diets only to see them eat more of it, government officials are intensifying their efforts. An advisory committee working on new US Dietary
26、Guidelines, due to be released later this year by the federal government, recently recommended that all adults restrict their【 C6】 _of sodium to no more than 1 500 milligrams a day,【 C7】 _to about two-thirds of a teaspoon of table salt, down from a current limit of 2 300 mgs for some people. The bes
27、t way to reduce salt is to cut back on processed and restaurant foods, eat fresh produce, and reduce portion sizes. Nutritionists【 C8】 _eating whole grain instead of breada single slice of packaged bread can contain 150 mgs to 200 mgs or more of sodium. Cut back gradually, so your palate(味觉 )adjusts
28、 to a less salty taste. When you do buy artifactitious(人工制品的 )foods, look for【 C9】 _witn less than 300 mgs of sodium per serving, or no more than one milligram of sodium per calorie of food, advised the Harvard School of Public Health, which has on its website 25 sodium-reduction【 C10】 _developed wi
29、th the Culinary Institute of America. A)steps F)contribute K)strategies B)attribute G)consume L)intake C)assume H)persuading M)items D)incidentally I)Previous N)recommend E)output J)necessarily O)equivalent 37 【 C1】 38 【 C2】 39 【 C3】 40 【 C4】 41 【 C5】 42 【 C6】 43 【 C7】 44 【 C8】 45 【 C9】 46 【 C10】 Se
30、ction B 46 A Nation Thats Losing Its Toolbox A)The scene inside the Home Depot on Weyman Avenue here would give the old-time American craftsman pause. B)In Aisle 34 is precut plastic flooring, the glue already in place. In Aisle 26 are prefabricated windows. Stacked near the checkout counters, and a
31、s colorful as a Fisher-Price toy, is a not-so-serious-looking power tool: a battery-operated saw-and-drill combination. And if you dont want to do it yourself, head to Aisle 23 or Aisle 35, where a help desk will arrange for an installer. Its all very handy stuff, I guess, a convenient way to be a d
32、o-it-yourselfer without being all that good with tools. But at a time when the American factory seems to be a shrinking presence, and when good manufacturing jobs have vanished, perhaps never to return, there is something deeply troubling about this dilution of American craftsmanship. C)This isnt a
33、lament(伤感 )or not merely a lamentfor bygone times. Its a social and cultural issue, as well as an economic one. The Home Depot approach to craftsmanshipsimplify it, dumb it down, hire a contractoris one signal that mastering tools and working with ones hands is receding in America as a hobby, as a v
34、alued skill, as a cultural influence that shaped thinking and behavior in vast sections of the country. D)That should be a matter of concern in a presidential election year. Yet neither Barack Obama nor Mitt Romney promotes himself as tool-savvy(使用工 具很在行的 )presidential timber, in the mold of a Jimmy
35、 Carter, a skilled carpenter and cabinet maker. The Obama administration does worry publicly about manufacturing, a first cousin of craftsmanship. When the Ford Motor Company, for example, recently announced that it was bringing some production home, the White House cheered. “When you see things lik
36、e Ford moving new production from Mexico to Detroit, instead of the other way around, you know things are changing,“ says Gene Sperling, director of the National Economic Council. E)Ask the administration or the Republicans or most academics why America needs more manufacturing, and they respond tha
37、t manufacturing gives birth to innovation, brings down the trade deficit, strengthens the dollar, generates jobs, arms the military and brings about a recovery from recession. But rarely, if ever, do they publicly take the argument a step further, asserting that a growing manufacturing sector encour
38、ages craftsmanship and that craftsmanship is, if not a birthright, then a vital ingredient of the American self-image as a can-do, inventive, we-can-make-anything people. F)Traditional vocational training in public high schools is gradually declining, stranding thousands of young people who seek tra
39、ining for a craft without going to college. Colleges, for their part, have since 1985 graduated fewer chemical, mechanical, industrial and metallurgical(冶金的 )engineers, partly in response to the reduced role of manufacturing, a big employer of them. G)The decline started in the 1950s, when manufactu
40、ring generated a sturdy 28% of the national income, or gross domestic product, and employed one-third of the workforce. Today, factory output generates just 12% of G.D. P. and employs barely 9% of the nations workers. Mass layoffs and plant closings have drawn plenty of headlines and public debate o
41、ver the years, and they still occasionally do. But the damage to skill and craftsmanshipwhats needed to build a complex airliner or a tractor, or for a worker to move up from assembler to machinist to supervisorwent largely unnoticed. H)“In an earlier generation, we lost our connection to the land,
42、and now we are losing our connection to the machinery we depend on,“ says Michael Hout, a sociologist at the University of California, Berkeley. “People who work with their hands,“ he went on, “are doing things today that we call service jobs, in restaurants and laundries, or in medical technology a
43、nd the like.“ I)Thats one explanation for the decline in traditional craftsmanship. Lack of interest is another. The big money is in fields like finance. Starting in the 1980s, skill in finance grew in importance, and, as depicted in the news media and the movies, became a more appealing source of i
44、ncome. J)By last year, Wall Street traders, bankers and those who deal in real estate generated 21% of the national income, double their share in the 1950s. And Warren Buffett, the good-natured financier, became a homespun folk hero, without the tools and overalls(工作服 ). K)“Young people grow up with
45、out developing the skills to fix things around the house,“ says Richard Curtin, director of the Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers. “They know about computers, of course, but they dont know how to build them.“ L)Manufacturings shrinking presence undoubtedly helps explain the
46、 decline in craftsmanship, if only because many of the nations assembly line workers were skilled in craft work, if not on the job then in their spare time. In a late 1990s study of blue-collar employees at a General Motors plant(now closed)in Linden, N. J. , the sociologist Ruth Milkman of City Uni
47、versity of New York found that many line workers, in their off-hours, did home renovation and other skilled work. M)“I have often thought,“ Ms. Milkman says, “that these extracurricular jobs were an effort on the part of the workers to regain their dignity after suffering the degradation of repetiti
48、ve assembly line work in the factory. “ N)Craft work has higher status in nations like Germany, which invests in apprenticeship(学徒 )programs for high school students. “Corporations in Germany realized that there was an interest to be served economically and patriotically in building up a skilled lab
49、or force at home; we never had that ethos 风气 ),“ says Richard Sennett, a New York University sociologist who has written about the connection of craft and culture. O)The damage to American craftsmanship seems to parallel the steep slide in manufacturing employment. Though the decline started in the 1970s, it became much steeper beginning in 2000. Since then, some 5.3 million jobs, or one-third of the workforce in manufacturing, have b
