1、大学英语六级（ 2013年 12月考试改革适用）模拟试卷 187及答案与解析 一、 Part I Writing 1 For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to unite an essay commenting on the saying “In every end, there is also a beginning.“ You can give examples to illustrate your point and then explain what you will do to keep on making progress. You
2、should urrite at least 150 words but no more than 200 words. Section A （ A） Selling software. （ B） Repairing computers. （ C） Selling computers. （ D） Developing software. （ A） She is arrogant. （ B） She is inexperienced. （ C） She is confident （ D） She is offensive. （ A） She was replaced by another emp
3、loyee. （ B） She was fired by her last boss. （ C） She couldnt find room for improvement. （ D） She couldnt make any progress in her job. （ A） She met the HR manager of her last company. （ B） She got a job from last weeks career fair. （ C） It was an internet career fair. （ D） It was held in the civic c
4、enter downtown. （ A） Its being outdoors. （ B） She needs to deal with different people. （ C） Its sometimes dangerous to drive at night. （ D） She has to work when the weather is bad. （ A） Meeting interesting people in the city. （ B） Being able to enjoy being outdoors. （ C） Driving in unsettled weather
5、. （ D） Taking long drives outside the city. （ A） Rather difficult to please. （ B） Rude to women drivers. （ C） Talkative and generous with tips. （ D） Different in personality. （ A） She complains a lot. （ B） She plans to quit her job. （ C） She is often criticized by her customers. （ D） She is very fam
6、iliar with the city. Section B （ A） Women would like to stay at home. （ B） People were more friendly. （ C） Students paid for their board. （ D） Immigration was encouraged. （ A） There are too many of them. （ B） They have a bad reputation. （ C） They dont pay taxes. （ D） They are not cooperative. （ A） P
7、aying the families who volunteer. （ B） Appealing to all sorts of families. （ C） Giving compulsory orders to young couples. （ D） Arranging homemakers for those families. （ A） Trouble. （ B） Youthful feeling. （ C） Companionship. （ D） Pressure. （ A） A water current struck his ship violently. （ B） A wave
8、 carried his ship far away. （ C） Great noise came down from the sky. （ D） Rough storms suddenly occurred. （ A） Kidnap by aliens. （ B） Kidnap by ghosts. （ C） Attack from sea creatures. （ D） Transportation to other times and places. （ A） Fast currents sweep away the wreckage caused by terrible weather
9、. （ B） The magnetic power draws them down to the ocean bottom. （ C） Some planes or ships lose contact with their remote controllers. （ D） Icebergs destroyed the passing vehicles and enclosed them. Section C （ A） He is a well-known comic movie star. （ B） He is a famous technician of mobile technology
10、. （ C） He is one of Hollywoods renowned filmmakers. （ D） He is one of the best known film investors. （ A） Ability to combine technology and entertainment （ B） Ability to make every story as long as possible. （ C） Ability to find famous actors or actresses for the film. （ D） Ability to tell a story w
11、ith an emotional grabbing point. （ A） There were crossover films and their makers. （ B） Many new filmmakers won awards. （ C） There was much sponsorship for crossover films. （ D） More musicians than actors attended this film festival. （ A） Create images making people stop thinking. （ B） Run after man
12、y fun things in life. （ C） Try things that doctors think impossible. （ D） Freeze a big animal in a block of ice. （ A） Staying in a glass box for 44 days just with water. （ B） Throwing cheeseburgers on a plane around London. （ C） Having his research paper published in a journal. （ D） Surviving in a b
13、ox without air for an hour. （ A） The ambition to become the greatest magician. （ B） The reality that he failed in a swimming race. （ C） The magician Houdini and his underwater challenges. （ D） Houdinis refusal to teach him holding breath underwater. （ A） He fell in a trap made by a hunter. （ B） He h
14、urt his brain by staying underwater. （ C） He was drowned in an icy river. （ D） He was trapped underwater for 45 minutes. （ A） When the President and the First Lady danced in the White House. （ B） When an old slave was interviewed about American Black History. （ C） When an old lady danced with the Pr
15、esident and the First lady. （ D） When some African American children visited the White House. （ A） Working out for some time every day. （ B） Keeping ones ideals of youth and belief. （ C） Keeping a good mood every day. （ D） Using health care products every day. （ A） He died on the very day of his 96t
16、h birthday. （ B） He closed his door and never went out in his nineties. （ C） He became a famous reporter at the age of 92. （ D） He worked harder as he was getting older. Section A 26 Teachers need to be aware of the emotional, intellectual, and physical changes that young adults experience. And they
17、 also need to give serious thought to how they can best【 C1】 _such changes. Growing bodies need movement and【 C2】 _, but not just in ways that emphasize competition. Because they are adjusting to their new bodies and a whole host of new intellectual and emotional challenges, teenagers are especially
18、 self-conscious and need the confidence that comes from achieving success and knowing that their accomplishments are【 C3】 _by others. However, the【 C4】_teenage lifestyle is already filled with so much competition that it would be wise to plan activities in which there are more winners than losers, f
19、or example, publishing newsletters with many student-written book reviews,【 C5】 _student artwork, and sponsoring book discussion clubs. A variety of small clubs can provide【 C6】_opportunities for leadership, as well as for practice in successful group【 C7】_. Making friends is extremely important to
20、teenagers, and many shy students need the security of some kind of organization with a supportive adult【 C8】 _visible in the background. In these activities, it is important to remember that young teens have short attention spans. A variety of activities should be organized so that participants can
21、remain active as long as they want and then go on to something else without feeling【 C9】 _and without letting the other participants down. This does not mean that adults must accept irresponsibility. On the contrary, they can help students acquire a sense of【 C10】_by planning for roles that are with
22、in their capabilities and their attention spans and by having clearly stated rules. A)dynamics E)displaying I)admired M)accommodate B)multiple F)rarely J)nutrition N)barely C)guidance G)exercise K)commitment O)claimed D)typical H)guilty L)surplus 27 【 C1】 28 【 C2】 29 【 C3】 30 【 C4】 31 【 C5】 32 【 C6】
23、 33 【 C7】 34 【 C8】 35 【 C9】 36 【 C10】 Section B 36 When Mom and Dad Grow Old AThe prospect of talking to increasingly fragile parents about their future can be “one of the most difficult challenges adult children will ever face,“ says Clarissa Green, a Vancouver therapist. “People often tell me they
24、 dont want to raise sensitive issues with their parents about bringing in caregivers or moving,“ she says. “Theyll say, I dont want to see Dad cry.“ But Green usually responds, “Whats wrong with that?“ Adult children, she says, need to try to join their parents in grieving their decline, acknowledge
25、 their living arrangements may no longer work and, if necessary, help them say goodbye to their beloved home. “Its sad. And its supposed to be. Its about death itself.“ BThere are almost four million men and women over age 65 in Canada. Nearly two thirds of them manage to patch together enough suppo
26、rtfrom family, friends, private and government servicesto live independently until virtually the day they die, according to Statistics Canada. COf the Canadian seniors who live to 85 and over, almost one in three end up being movedsometimes kickingto group living for the last years of their lives. E
27、ven in the best-case scenarios(可能出现的情况 ), such dislocations can bring sorrow. “Often the family feels guilty, and the senior feels abandoned,“ says Charmaine Spencer, a professor in the gerontology department of Simon Eraser University. Harassed with their own careers and children, adult children ma
28、y push their parents too fast to make a major transition. DVal MacDonald, executive director of the B.C. Seniors Services Society, cautions adult children against imposing their views on aging parents. “Many baby boomers can be quite patronizing(高人一等的 ),“ she says. Like many who work with seniors, M
29、acDonald suggests adult children devote many conversations over a long period of time to collaborating on their parents future, raising feelings, questions and optionsgently, but frankly. However, many middle-aged adults, according to the specialists, just muddle(应付 )through with their aging parents
30、. EWhen the parents of Nancy Woods of Mulmur Hills, Ont., were in their mid-80s, they made the decision to downsize from their large family home to an apartment in Toronto. As Woodss parents, George and Bernice, became frailer, she believed they knew she had their best interests at heart. They agree
31、d to her suggestion to have Meals on Wheels start delivering lunches and dinners. However, years later, after a crisis, Woods discovered her parents had taken to throwing out the prepared meals. Her dad had appreciated them, but Bernice had come to believe they were poisoned. “My father was so loyal
32、,“ says Woods, “he had hid that my mother was overwhelmed by paranoia(偏执狂 ).“ To her horror, Woods discovered her dad and mom were “Irving on crackers and oatmeal porridge“ and were weakening from the impoverished diet Her dad was also falling apart with the stress of providing for Bernicea common p
33、roblem when one spouse tries to do everything for an ailing partner. “The spouse whos being cared for might be doing well at home,“ says Spencer, “but often the other spouse is burned out and ends up being hospitalized.“ FFortunately, outside help is often available to people struggling through the
34、often-distressing process of helping their parents explore an important shift. Sons and daughters can bring in brochures or books on seniors issues, as well as introduce government health-care workers or staff at various agencies, to help raise issues and open up discussions, says Val MacDonald, who
35、se nonprofit organization responds to thousands of calls a year from British Columbians desperate for information about how to weave through the dizzying array of seniors services and housing options. The long list of things to do, says MacDonald, includes assessing their ability to live independent
36、ly: determining your comfort level with such things as bathing a parent: discussing with all household members whether it would be healthy for an elderly relative to move in: monitoring whether, out of pure duty, youre overcommitting yourself to providing a level of care that could threaten your own
37、 well-being. GThe shock phone call that flung Nancy Woods and her parents into action came from her desperate dad. “I got this call from my father that he couldnt cope anymore. My mother was setting fires in the apartment,“ she says. “He didnt want to see it for what it was. Up to then hed been in d
38、enial.“ HWithout knowing she was following the advice of experts who recommend using outside sources to stimulate frank discussion with parents, Woods grabbed a copy of The 36-Hour Day: A Family Guide to Caring for Persons With Alzheimer Disease, Related Dementing Illnesses, and Memory Loss in Later
39、 Life. She read sections of the book to her dad and asked him, “Who does that sound like?“ Her father replied, “Its Mother. Its dementia(痴呆 ).“ At that point, Woods said, her dad finally recognized their tragic plight. She told her father she would help them move out of their apartment. “He nodded.
40、He didnt yell or roar. He took it on the chin(忍受痛苦 ).“ IWoods regrets that she “had not noticed small details signalling Moms dementia.“ But shes satisfied her dad accepted his passage into a group residence, where he and his wife could stay together in a secure unit where staff were trained to deal
41、 with patients with dementia. “From the moment they moved into the Toronto nursing home, their physical health improved. On the other hand, it was the beginning of the end in terms of their mental abilities. Perhaps they couldnt get enough stimulation. Perhaps it was inevitable.“ JAfter my father di
42、ed in 2002, the grim reality of my mothers sharply declining memory set in starkly. With her expanding dementia, Mom insisted on staying in her large North Shore house, even though she was confused about how to cook, organize her day or take care of herself. For the next three years we effectively i
43、mposed decisions on her, most of them involving bringing in caregivers, including family members. In 2005 Mom finally agreed, although she barely knew what was happening, to move to a nearby nursing home, where, despite great confusion, she is happier. KAs Spencer says, the sense of dislocation that
44、 comes with making an important passage can be “a very hard adjustment for a senior at the best of times. But its worse if its not planned out.“ 37 One who works with seniors reminds baby boomers not to intrude their opinions on aging parents. 38 Adult children can make use of outside sources to hel
45、p their parents make an important shift. 39 Meals prepared for Nancy Woods parents were thrown away because they were believed to be poisoned. 40 As it is difficult for a senior to make adjustment to an important change, it would be better to make plans in advance for them. 41 According to Statistic
46、s Canada, most seniors over sixty-five try to get support from various sources to live independently until they die. 42 After moving into the nursing home, Nancy Woodss parents became healthier physically. 43 Adult children tend to push their parents to group living without thorough consideration be
47、cause of the pressure from careers and children. 44 The organization Val MacDonald set up helps adult children with their aging parents issues for free. 45 A therapist advises adult children should try to share their fragile parents grieving feelings instead of avoiding sensitive issues. 46 Realizin
48、g their serious situation, Nancy Woods father agreed to move out of their apartment. Section C 46 Children who live near a main road are in greater danger of catching pneumonia(肺炎 )because pollution from passing traffic damages their lungs. A leading expert in childhood breathing difficulties has ma
49、de the link between exposure to particles from vehicle exhausts and a childs susceptibility to the chest infection, which can be fatal. Professor Jonathan Grigg, an honorary consultant at the Royal London Hospital and academic paediatrician(儿科医生 )at Queen Mary, University of London, made the breakthrough after studying the effect of airborne pollutants on human lung cells. Children whose home is within 100 metres of a main road could be as much as 65% more lik
