1、大学英语六级（ 2013年 12月考试改革适用）模拟试卷 185及答案与解析 一、 Part I Writing 1 For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay based on the picture below. You should focus on the impact of technological advances on education. You are required to write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words. Sect
2、ion A （ A） At the end of March. （ B） In the middle of April. （ C） At the beginning of May. （ D） At the end of May. （ A） She wants to book some plane tickets. （ B） Her assistant needs to buy some books for them. （ C） She needs to find a good hotel for the delegation. （ D） Her assistant needs to arran
3、ge the accommodation. （ A） He received a call from the delegation. （ B） He discussed with the Poland delegation. （ C） He knew it through the contract they signed. （ D） He received an E-mail this morning and knew it （ A） A tour around the city. （ B） A cruise along the river. （ C） A visit around the c
4、ampus. （ D） Discussion and some seminars. （ A） She found she wasnt registered in Chemistry 302A. （ B） She found she was registered in Chemistry 302B. （ C） She was unsure which class she had registered. （ D） She wasnt registered in Chemistry 302B. （ A） Chemistry 302A, Dr. Smiths Class. （ B） Chemistry
5、 302A, Dr. Nelsons Class. （ C） Chemistry 302B, Dr. Smiths Class. （ D） Chemistry 302B, Dr. Nelsons Class. （ A） Show the add/drop form to Professor Smith. （ B） Go on attending Professor Smiths class. （ C） Come to the registration office with the form. （ D） Sort out the problem all by herself. （ A） She
6、 is worried she cant attend the course. （ B） She is worried she has to change professor. （ C） She is worried she might not be able to graduate. （ D） She is worried she might fall behind in the course. Section B （ A） It allows one to show his personal information. （ B） It offers only the childrens pe
7、rsonal information. （ C） It is against parents will to educate the kids. （ D） It only offers stories about other people. （ A） Its a reliable way to make friends online. （ B） It is convenient to get in touch with their parents. （ C） It is regarded as a way of judging high school popularity. （ D） It i
8、s regarded as a way of judging subject scores. （ A） There are too many complaints from net users. （ B） Hackers attack of MySpace cannot be forbidden. （ C） Parents cannot help checking childrens information. （ D） It is easy for trouble-makers to do harm to children. （ A） Do parents like MySpace? （ B）
9、 Is MySpace good or bad? （ C） MySpace is the home of children. （ D） MySpace is the bank of childrens information. （ A） They may feel exhausted. （ B） They may feel very nervous. （ C） They may have heartache. （ D） They may suffer a cold. （ A） The building method the builders use to save energy. （ B） T
10、he limit of the flow of air between inside and outside. （ C） The use of man-made building materials. （ D） The limit of air-flow and the man-made materials. （ A） To let out clean gas. （ B） To take in harmful gas. （ C） To use various plants. （ D） To let the air flow freely. Section C （ A） He did not p
11、ass A level. （ B） He was hurt in a road accident （ C） He was lost on his vacation abroad. （ D） He kept hitting himself on the head. （ A） Which college he will be enrolled in. （ B） The exam results are gloomy. （ C） He cant study maths any more. （ D） His dream can never come true. （ A） Taking good car
12、e of our children to make them feel happy. （ B） Finding colorful extracurricular activities for our children. （ C） Educating our children exam grades dont mean all to them. （ D） Training our children to control all the things happening in life. （ A） He closes his design studio for a whole year. （ B）
13、 He goes to New York for a sight-seeing tour. （ C） He writes a new song for a famous musician. （ D） He opens a new chain studio in a different city. （ A） Its better to make full use of them to enjoy ourselves. （ B） Its abnormal to use them to tender our grandchildren. （ C） Its helpful to use some of
14、 them beforehand in working years. （ D） Its wise to use them on re-employment to earn more money. （ A） A simple concept of investing in business. （ B） A simple concept of enjoying life. （ C） A complex concept with 3 meanings. （ D） A complex concept with 4 meanings. （ A） A lady with a very slim figur
15、e. （ B） A sports player without legs. （ C） A player competing in a running race. （ D） A lady holding a one-year old baby. （ A） She watched a horse race there. （ B） She took part in a softball match there. （ C） She competed in a track meet there. （ D） She went there for a sports award. （ A） They are
16、perfect for a long-distance runner. （ B） They are made of a wood and plastic compound. （ C） They are suitable for all kinds of beautiful socks. （ D） They are badly in need of a plastic surgery. （ A） Receive an operation to cure her heart attack. . （ B） Compete with those big potatoes in sports field
17、. （ C） Jump over a new height of 5 feet and 11 inches. （ D） Make an attempt to run her first race in Boston. Section A 26 Comparisons were drawn between 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 w
18、as discussed before, it was not until the 19th century that the newspaper became the dominant pre-electronic【 C1】 _, following in the wake of the pamphlet and the book and in the company of the periodical. It was during the same time that the communications revolution【 C2】 _up, beginning with transp
19、ort, 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 airplane. Not everyone sees that process in【 C4】 _. It is important to do so. It is generally recognized, however, that the introduction of the compute
20、r in the early 20th century, followed by the invention of the integrated circuit during the 1960s,【 C5】_changed the process, although its impact on the media was not immediately【 C6】 _. As time went by, computers became smaller and more powerful, and they became “personal“ too, as well as institutio
21、nal, with display becoming sharper and storage【 C7】 _increasing. They were thought of, like people, in terms of generations, with the distance between generations much smaller. It was within the computer age that the term “information society“ began to be widely used to describe the context within w
22、hich 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 been【 C9】 _views about its economic, political, social and cultural implications. “Benefits“ have been weighed against “harmful“【 C10】 _. And generaliza
23、tions have proved difficult. A)speeded B)universal C)leading D)impressed E)influenced F)territory G)capacity H)radically I)controversial J)presumably K)perspective L)outcomes M)apparent N)distracting O)medium 27 【 C1】 28 【 C2】 29 【 C3】 30 【 C4】 31 【 C5】 32 【 C6】 33 【 C7】 34 【 C8】 35 【 C9】 36 【 C10】
24、Section B 36 Trust Me, Im a Robot AWith robots now emerging from their industrial cages and moving into homes and workplaces, roboticists are concerned about the safely implications beyond the factory floor. To address these concerns, leading robot experts have come together to try to find ways to p
25、revent robots from harming people. Inspired by the Pugwash Conferencesan international group of scientists, academics and activists founded in 1957 to campaign for the non-proliferation of nuclear weaponsthe new group of robo-ethicists met earlier this year in Genoa, Italy, and announced their initi
26、al findings in March at the European Robotics Symposium in Palermo, Sicily. B“Security and safety are the big concerns,“ says Henrik Christensen, chairman of the European Robotics Network at the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. Should robots that are strong enough or heavy enough
27、to crush people be allowed into homes? Is “system malfunction“ a justifiable defence for a robotic fighter plane that contravenes(违反 )the Geneva Convention and mistakenly fires on innocent civilians? C“These questions may seem hard to understand but in the next few years they will become increasingl
28、y relevant,“ says Dr. Christensen. According to the United Nations Economic Commission for Europes World Robotics Survey, in 2002 the number of domestic and service robots more than tripled, nearly surpassing their industrial counterparts. By the end of 2003 there were more than 600,000 robot vacuum
29、 cleaners and lawn mowersa figure predicted to rise to more than 4m by the end of next year. Japanese industrial firms are racing to build humanoid robots to act as domestic helpers for the elderly, and South Korea has set a goal that 100% of households should have domestic robots by 2020. In light
30、of all this, it is crucial that we start to think about safety guidelines now, says Dr. Christensen Stop right there DSo what exactly is being done to protect us from these mechanical menaces? “Not enough,“ says Blay Whitby. This is hardly surprising given that the field of “safety-critical computin
31、g“ is barely a decade old, he says. But things are changing, and researchers are increasingly taking an interest in trying to make robots safer. One approach, which sounds simple enough, is try to program them to avoid contact with people altogether. But this is much harder than it sounds. Getting a
32、 robot to navigate across a cluttered room is difficult enough without having to take into account what its various limbs or appendages might bump into along the way. E“Regulating the behaviour of robots is going to become more difficult in the future, since they will increasingly have self-learning
33、 mechanisms built into them,“ says Gianmarco Veruggio. “As a result, their behaviour will become impossible to predict fully,“ he says, “since they will not be behaving in predefined ways but will learn new behaviour as they go.“ FThen there is the question of unpredictable failures. What happens if
34、 a robots motors stop working, or it suffers a system failure just as it is performing heart surgery or handing you a cup of hot coffee? You can, of course, build in redundancy by adding backup systems, says Hirochika Inoue. But this guarantees nothing, he says. “One hundred per cent safety is impos
35、sible through technology,“ says Dr. Inoue. This is because ultimately no matter how thorough you are, you cannot anticipate the unpredictable nature of human behaviour, he says. Or to put it another way, no matter how sophisticated your robot is at avoiding people, people might not always manage to
36、avoid it, and could end up tripping over it and falling down the stairs. Legal problems GIn any case, says Dr. Inoue, the laws really just summarize commonsense principles that are already applied to the design of most modern appliances, both domestic and industrial. Every toaster, lawn mower and mo
37、bile phone is designed to minimize the risk of causing injuryyet people still manage to electrocute(电死 )themselves, lose fingers or fall out of windows in an effort to get a better signal. At the very least, robots must meet the rigorous safety standards that cover existing products. The question is
38、 whether new, robot-specific rules are neededand, if so, what they should say. H“Making sure robots are safe will be critical,“ says Colin Angle of iRobot, which has sold over 2m “Roomba“ household-vacuuming robots. But he argues that his firms robots are, in fact, much safer than some popular toys.
39、 “A radio-controlled car controlled by a six-year old is far more dangerous than a Roomba,“ he says. If you tread on a Roomba, it will not cause you to slip over: instead, a rubber pad on its base grips the floor and prevents it from moving. “Existing regulations will address much of the challenge,“
40、 says Mr. Angle. “Im not yet convinced that robots are sufficiently different that they deserve special treatment.“ IRobot safety is likely to surface in the civil courts as a matter of product liability. “When the first robot carpet-sweeper sucks up a baby, who will be to blame?“ asks John Hallam,
41、a professor at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense. If a robot is autonomous and capable of learning, can its designer be held responsible for all its actions? Today the answer to these questions is generally “yes“. But as robots grow in complexity it will become a lot less clear cut, he sa
42、ys. J“Right now, no insurance company is prepared to insure robots,“ says Dr. Inoue. But that will have to change, he says. Last month, Japans Ministry of Trade and Industry announced a set of safety guidelines for home and office robots. They will be required to have sensors to help them avoid coll
43、isions with humans: to be made from soft and light materials to rninimize harm if a collision does occur: and to have an emergency shut-off button. This was largely prompted by a big robot exhibition held last summer, which made the authorities realize that there are safety implications when thousan
44、ds of people are not just looking at robots, but mingling with them, says Dr. Inoue. KHowever, the idea that general-purpose robots, capable of learning, will become widespread is wrong, suggests Mr. Angle. It is more likely, he believes, that robots will be relatively dumb machines designed for par
45、ticular tasks. Rather than a humanoid robot maid, “its going to be a heterogeneous(不同种类的 )swarm of robots that will take care of the house,“ he says. 37 It is pointed out there is no absolute safety through technology due to the unpredictable nature of human behavior. 38 It sounds easier said than d
46、one to program robots to avoid contact with people. 39 According to a survey, the number of domestic and service robots was three times over that of industrial robots in 2002. 40 To deal with the rising safety concern about domestic robots, robo-ethicists held meetings in Genoa. 41 To a great extent
47、, a robot exhibition contributed to the issue of safety guidelines for home and office robots in Japan. 42 A crew member from iRobot believes the existing regulations can cope with much challenges so robots are not so different as to be treated specially. 43 A university professor points out that th
48、e complexity of robots may result in the ambiguous product liability. 44 It will be more difficult to regulate robots behavior due to their self-learning mechanisms. 45 Right now, the laws can only summarize commonsense principles so as to reduce the chance of injury caused by robots. 46 Japanese fi
49、rms are competing in the production of robots specifically helping the old people. Section C 46 Picassos art was not just a pleasant distraction. The artist believed that art helps to penetrate further into the world and into men for understanding. With his unusually acute senses, with his intense, black eyes, Picasso saw every subject as no one else did. He tried to express the essence of his subject. He showed people how to grasp a new concept of beauty. He made them rea
