1、大学英语六级（ 2013年 12月考试改革适用）模拟试卷 17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 Marriage Upon Graduation following the outline given below. You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words. Write your essay on Answer Sheet 1. 1越来越多的大学
2、生一毕业就迈入婚姻殿堂 2产生这种现象的原因 3我的看法 Marriage Upon Graduation Section A （ A） She doesnt know exactly when the man should make the call. （ B） The man should make the call at 7:00. （ C） The man should make an appointment in advance. （ D） The man can call Dr. Smith at any time. （ A） The man is looking at the m
3、ap of America. （ B） The man is a member of staff at the train station. （ C） The woman is looking up the train timetable. （ D） The woman is waiting for the train leaving for Washington. （ A） He doesnt like foreign literature at all. （ B） He has learnt a few language courses in university. （ C） He has
4、 learnt only one literature course in university. （ D） He wishes he had learnt several foreign literature courses in university. （ A） She got good marks in the exam. （ B） She will have a one-month holiday. （ C） She has graduated from university. （ D） She has never prepared for the exam. （ A） He boug
5、ht her some pictures. （ B） He took many pictures for her. （ C） He bought a photo album for her. （ D） He made a birthday cake himself for her. （ A） She lost her key on her way home. （ B） She locked herself out of the house. （ C） She waited for her husband for a long time. （ D） Her apartment was on fi
6、re. （ A） The man will meet some writers someday. （ B） The man will be very busy on Thursday. （ C） The man will have a meeting on Friday. （ D） The man will stay with some journalists for two days. （ A） The accident happened for the drivers sudden turn. （ B） The driver was badly injured in the car acc
7、ident. （ C） The accident was caused by the tree in the street. （ D） Its the driver who should be blamed. （ A） Ask the policeman in Mexico City. （ B） Return to New York immediately. （ C） Ask for help from the woman. （ D） Send money to his brother as soon as possible. （ A） The current exchange rate. （
8、 B） The interest payments. （ C） The value-added tax. （ D） The allowance. （ A） The mans password. （ B） A special control number. （ C） The account in Western Union. （ D） His ID card. （ A） It can promote the employment rate. （ B） It is a necessary part of the university education. （ C） It can solve som
9、e of the students problems. （ D） It offers training for the new teachers. （ A） Education majors host this program. （ B） Education majors have more experience. （ C） The program provides teaching chances. （ D） The program needs more education majors. （ A） She encourages students to participate in the
10、program. （ B） She trains the education majors for the program. （ C） She observes elementary school students after class. （ D） She helps the students and gives them advice. （ A） Helping the kids out of financial difficulties. （ B） Getting precious tutoring experience. （ C） Earning some money for the
11、next term. （ D） Making their parents proud. Section B （ A） It moves into a sloping position and has the possibility of collapse. （ B） Its beautiful scenery welcomes 1 billion tourists on Monday. （ C） It will be sold to Russian developers for about 500 million pounds. （ D） Its bell was out of service
12、 for several years. （ A） To evaluate the surveyors report on renovation. （ B） To do business with the Russians on selling Elizabeth Tower. （ C） To discuss the establishment of a group on building protection. （ D） To talk about spending one billion pounds on restoration. （ A） It has been repaired suc
13、cessfully. （ B） It will be sold to Russian developers. （ C） It has tilted seriously. （ D） It will be safe for a long time. （ A） We always use body language to express our feelings. （ B） Body language can be controlled by emotions. （ C） Emotions will be expressed by body language without control. （ D
14、） Words are less useful than body language. （ A） The kids couldnt hide things perfectly. （ B） The hiders body language tells the location unconsciously. （ C） The pressure forced the hider to tell the location. （ D） The finder finally finds the map of the hidden things. （ A） It is unconscious when pe
15、ople suppress emotions. （ B） It comes when people escape from their true feelings. （ C） It makes people sad when depression comes. （ D） It is exciting when leakage is used in depression. （ A） Children can spend 10 000 doing what they want. （ B） Children will be asked to arrange the parents wedding.
16、（ C） Children will prepare their weddings without parents help. （ D） Children will be asked to imagine the things they dream about. （ A） It risks the healthy growth of children. （ B） It makes weddings too expensive to enjoy for new couples. （ C） It makes people feel weddings are not being taken seri
17、ously. （ D） It has negative influence on children. （ A） To describe the life they dream about. （ B） To talk about interesting things on their parents wedding. （ C） To arrange things about hen nights or stag parties. （ D） To design almost all the issues they want on the wedding day. （ A） To dress lik
18、e a cartoon character on the wedding day. （ B） To adopt children and bring them up as their own. （ C） To accept the new wedding ideas of their children. （ D） To cheer for their childrens excellent performance. Section C 26 Economists usually study markets. Now, two Americans have won the Nobel Prize
19、 in economics for not studying markets. They will share almost $ 1.5 million for their analysis of economic【 B1】 _, which is the study of how economic activity is governed within companies,【 B2】 _and other groups. The winners are Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson. The prize in economic sciences ha
20、s gone to 63 men since it was first【 B3】 _40 years ago. Elinor Ostrom is the first woman. And, like other winners over the years, her training【 B4】_economics. She is a professor of political science and of public and environmental affairs. Today, economic theory suggests that good resource managemen
21、t requires【 B5】 _, either private or public. If not, the thinking goes, then self-interest will lead to overuse and【 B6】 _of shared resources. Elinor Ostrom showed how local decision making can【 B7】 _the tragedy. She studied farmers in Southern California who depended on a common water supply. Her r
22、esearch has deepened the understanding of how people balance their needs with those of others who depend on the same resources. She【 B8】 _how people who use resources often develop ways to share them. Oliver Williamson has studied big companies and found that they often are better than markets at do
23、ing complex jobs. Under his theory, businesses act as structures for conflict resolution. For example, companies that own their suppliers can【 B9】 _long-term contracts and disputes over prices. This can make production more efficient and【 B10】_limited resources. But businesses can also abuse their p
24、ower. Prof. Williamson says the best way to deal with this is not by limiting the size of companies, but through industry regulation. 27 【 B1】 28 【 B2】 29 【 B3】 30 【 B4】 31 【 B5】 32 【 B6】 33 【 B7】 34 【 B8】 35 【 B9】 36 【 B10】 Section A 36 In most cultures throughout the world, there is an expectation
25、 that when a person reaches adulthood, marriage should soon follow. In the United States alone, each month upwards of 168 000 couples wed,【 C1】 _to love, honor, and respect their chosen life mates until death parts them. The expectation is deep-rooted. However, the social functions, purposes, and re
26、levance of marriage are rapidly changing in 【 C2】 _society, making them less clear-cut than they have been throughout history. For instance, in a Pew Research Center random polling of over 2 000【 C3】 _, fewer than half of all of the adults polled indicated that if a man and a woman plan to spend the
27、 rest of their lives together as a couple, it was important that they【 C4】 _marry. Those of us who choose to marry have【 C5】 _reasons why we decide to marry the person we do. There is a【 C6】 _, however, in our Western, individualistic culture: We tend to marry for reasons that benefit ourselves, rat
28、her than for reasons that benefit the society at large, such as found in collectivist cultures. Research in Western cultures has found, for example, that the number-one【 C7】 _people cite for marrying is to signify a lifelong commitment to someone they love. However, this reason is not the only respo
29、nse to why people wed today, people get married for reasons of commitment, security, and personal belief systems. The Pew Research Centers recent findings【 C8】 _that the main reasons people get married are for【 C9】 _ happiness and commitment, and bearing and raising children. As the data from this s
30、urvey show us, there are racial, age, and religious differences in what people【 C10】_to be the main purposes of getting married. A)tendency F)pretending K)vowing B)specific G)conventional L)consider C)individuals H)observe M)reason D)legally I)belief N)mutual E)contemporary J)signify O)suggest 37 【
31、C1】 38 【 C2】 39 【 C3】 40 【 C4】 41 【 C5】 42 【 C6】 43 【 C7】 44 【 C8】 45 【 C9】 46 【 C10】 Section B 46 How Safe Is Your Cell Phone? A)It takes a little extra work to get in touch with Andrea Boland. The Maine state representative answers e-mails and lists her business and home phone numbers on the Web.
32、But unlike many politicians surgically attached to their BlackBerrys, she keeps her cell switched off unless shes expecting a call. And if she has her way, everyone in Maine and perhaps, eventually, the rest of the US will similarly think twice before jabbering(急促含糊地说 )away on their mobiles. B)In Ma
33、rch, Maines legislature will begin debating a bill she submitted that would require manufacturers to put a warning label on every cell phone sold in the state declaring, “This device emits electromagnetic radiation, exposure to which may cause brain cancer.“ Her warning would continue: “Users, espec
34、ially children and pregnant women, should keep this device away from the head and body.“ C)For those of you now eyeing your cell phones suspiciously, its worth noting that both the National Cancer Institute and the World Health Organization say there isnt evidence to support the assertion that cell
35、phones are a public-health threat. But a number of scientists are worried that there has been a dangerous rush to declare cell phones safe, using studies they feel are inadequate and too often weighted toward the wireless industrys interests. An analysis published by University of Washington neurolo
36、gist Henry Lai determined that far more independent studies than industry-funded studies have found at least some type of biological effect from cell-phone exposure. D)Several countries including Finland, Israel and France have issued guidelines for cell-phone use. And San Francisco Mayor Gavin News
37、om, who began researching the issue when his wife was expecting their first child, is hoping his city will adopt legislation that would have manufacturers print radiation information on cell-phone packaging and manuals and require retailers to display the data on the sales floor. E)With 270 million
38、Americans and 4 billion people around the world using cell phonesand more signing up every day a strong link between mobiles and cancer could have major public-health implications. As cell phones make and take calls, they emit low-level radio-frequency(RF)radiation. Stronger than FM radio signals, t
39、hese RF waves are still a billionth the intensity of known carcinogenic(会致癌的 )radiation like X-rays. F)The wireless industry contends that RF radiation lacks the strength to alter molecules in the human body; the Federal Communications Commission maximum for cell-phone-signal exposure is intended to
40、 prevent RF radiation from heating tissue to the point that cells are damaged. Cell-phone RF radiations “effect on the body, at least at this time, appears to be insufficient to produce genetic damage typically associated with developing cancer,“ Dr. Robert Hoover, director of the National Cancer In
41、stitutes Epidemiology and Biostatistics Program, testified at a 2008 congressional hearing. G)But the body of research is far from conclusive. In 1995, Lai co-wrote a study showing that a single two-hour exposure of RF radiation at levels considered safe by the US standards- produced the sort of gen
42、etic damage in rats brain cells that can lead to cancer. Though subsequent researchers often funded in part by the wireless industry- failed to replicate Lais results, a 2004 European Union-funded study reported similar findings. H)Dariusz Leszczynski, a research professor at Finlands Radiation and
43、Nuclear Safety Authority in Helsinki, has done studies indicating that RF radiation may create a stress reaction in the cells that line blood vessels, leading to a dangerous damage in the blood-brain barrier. “Mobile-phone radiation may be able to indirectly hurt cells, perhaps by interfering with t
44、heir ability to repair normal DNA damage,“ he says. “Given the scientific uncertainty, its premature to say the use of cell phones is safe. “ I)If RF radiation increases the chances of developing brain cancer, it should show up in long-term studies of cell-phone users. But many epidemiological studi
45、es have found no clear connection, including a 2007 Danish Cancer Society study of 421 000 cell-phone users, which led many in the media to conclude that mobiles are harmless. To date, “peer-reviewed scientific evidence has overwhelmingly indicated that wireless devices do not pose a risk,“ says Joh
46、n Walls, a spokesman for CTIA, a global wireless association. J)There are problems with many of these studies, however. For starters, the Danish one -which reviewed the medical records of people who had signed up for cell phones from 1982 to 1995 didnt include all the business users, who were among
47、the earliest adopters and most intensive users, because they were not billed directly. K)Also, the study looked only at tumors that were diagnosed by 2002 not long after daily use of cell phones became widespread. Brain cancers can take several decades to develop, so it might be many years before a
48、measurable bump in cancer rates shows up. “The latency period we have is far too short,“ says Dr. Siegal Sadetzki, a cancer researcher at Israels Gertner Institute whose epidemiological studies have found some connections between cell-phone use and salivary-gland(唾液腺 )tumors. “And today, people are
49、using the phone much more heavily. “ L)Sadetzki served as Israels principal investigator in the Interphone study, which was conducted over the past several years by 13 countries, most of them European. The Interphone results initially were to be published in 2006, but the final report has been postponed repeatedly, and the study investigators are reportedly deeply divided. In the US, which isnt one of the Interphone countries, the Nat
