1、大学英语六级（ 2013年 12月考试改革适用）模拟试卷 192及答案与解析 一、 Part I Writing 1 For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay on understanding others by referring to Abraham Lincolns remark, “I dont like that man. I must get to know him better.“ You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 word
2、s. Section A （ A） To tell him he has got the post of a manager. （ B） To have a private conversation with him. （ C） To inform him something about the interview. （ D） To discuss the future of the company with him. （ A） The mans professional background. （ B） The mans major successes till now. （ C） The
3、mans view on the company. （ D） The mans questions about the job. （ A） His educational background. （ B） The reason why he quitted his previous job. （ C） The turning point in his career. （ D） Examples of problems he met with. （ A） It has to be long and in detail. （ B） It will be given in a formal styl
4、e. （ C） It will include his view on the company. （ D） It will be given next Tuesday morning. （ A） Romantic love. （ B） Mystery murder. （ C） Science fiction. （ D） Ocean adventure. （ A） Visit the stories setting places. （ B） Look for all the details about the stories. （ C） Have a further talk with pers
5、ons involved. （ D） Make some character analysis. （ A） Indifferent. （ B） Suspicious. （ C） Favorable. （ D） Critical. （ A） It has been finished. （ B） It will be published this month. （ C） It contains many detective stories. （ D） It ranks the top of bestseller lists. Section B （ A） Delayed treatments. （
6、 B） The quakes themselves. （ C） Lack of food and water. （ D） Collapse of buildings. （ A） Earthquakes may happen anywhere at anytime. （ B） The precise place and time of an earthquake. （ C） Whether the majority of people know about first aid. （ D） Whether people live and work near earthquake belts. （
7、A） They have compared animal behaviors with humans. （ B） They knew how to avoid earthquakes. （ C） They tried many ways to decrease earthquakes. （ D） They showed increasing success in predicting earthquakes. （ A） Young people tended to do what they like. （ B） Companies preferred male workers to femal
8、e. （ C） Young men got better pay than young women. （ D） Good looking people earned more than bright ones （ A） The self-assured ones. （ B） The high-income ones. （ C） The average ones. （ D） The popular ones. （ A） Brighter people got better pay. （ B） Pay scales were not fair at all. （ C） Males were bri
9、ghter than females. （ D） Pays depended on ones age. （ A） He has to be 40 per cent smarter. （ B） He has to work for longer time. （ C） He needs to have a better education. （ D） He should have something special. Section C （ A） We tend to be satisfied after a second thought. （ B） We are not always thril
10、led with them afterwards. （ C） We always regret the hasty ones we made. （ D） We are mostly happy with whom weve become. （ A） Their misconception about the power of time. （ B） Their ignorance about the rate of change in life. （ C） Their fantasy that the youth change more slowly. （ D） Their belief tha
11、t adults change faster than babies. （ A） They are of the same importance all through ones life. （ B） They will not change at least in the next 10 years. （ C） The balance of them will shift as time goes by. （ D） They change more in teenage years than in elder years. （ A） It will still resist online s
12、ervice for some time. （ B） Its eager to launch online service soon. （ C） It might not resist online service anymore. （ D） Its still hesitant about offering online service. （ A） They are eager to try grocery websites. （ B） They are very cautious about trying it. （ C） They resist buying fresh produce
13、online. （ D） They find it convenient and satisfactory. （ A） It is the biggest American online grocer. （ B） It can make a profit from its online operation. （ C） Its customers are mainly from Manhattan. （ D） It will do some innovation on online service. （ A） They are too afraid of Amazon to offer onli
14、ne-grocery service. （ B） They wont take Walmarts online-grocery business seriously. （ C） They are afraid the online shopping market will expand. （ D） They decide not to repeat the mistakes others have made. （ A） Nothing but the darkness. （ B） Fireflies blinking everywhere. （ C） A world of lighting a
15、nimals. （ D） Wreckage of ancient ships. （ A） To protect themselves or attract prey. （ B） To make the deep sea bright and beautiful. （ C） To find their ways in darkness. （ D） To attract mates and warn enemies. （ A） To explain its specialty and function. （ B） To show shallow-water animals are also ama
16、zing. （ C） To explain how animals adapt to surroundings. （ D） To call on people to protect sea animals. Section A 26 The human nose is an underrated tool. Humans are often thought to be insensitive smellers compared with animals, but this is largely because, unlike animals, we stand upright This mea
17、ns that our noses are【 C1】 _to perceiving those smells which float through the air, missing the majority of smells which stick to surfaces. In fact, though, we are【 C2】_sensitive to smells, even if we do not generally realize it Our noses are capable of【 C3】_human smells even when these are diluted
18、to far below one part in one million. Strangely, some people find that they can smell one type of flower but not another, whereas others are sensitive to the smells of both flowers. This may be because some people do not have the genes necessary to generate【 C4】 _smell receptors in the nose. These r
19、eceptors are the cells which sense smells and send【 C5】 _to the brain. However, it has been found that even people insensitive to a certain smell at first can suddenly become sensitive to it when【 C6】_to it often enough. The explanation for insensitivity to smell seems to be that the brain finds it【
20、 C7】 _to keep all smell receptors working all the time but can create new receptors if necessary. This may also explain why we are not usually sensitive to our own smellswe【 C8】 _do not need to be. We are not【 C9】 _of the usual smell of our own house, but we notice new smells when we visit someone e
21、lses. The brain finds it best to keep smell receptors available for unfamiliar and【 C10】 _signals such as the smell of smoke, which might indicate the danger of fire. A)simply E)permanently I)dedicated M)distinguishing B)emergency F)limited J)exposed N)particular C)aware G)sure K)impulses O)extremel
22、y D)detecting H)inefficient L)messages 27 【 C1】 28 【 C2】 29 【 C3】 30 【 C4】 31 【 C5】 32 【 C6】 33 【 C7】 34 【 C8】 35 【 C9】 36 【 C10】 Section B 36 Are Teenagers Really Careless About Online Privacy? AThey share, like, everything. How they feel about a song, their maths homework, life(it sucks). Where th
23、eyll be next: who theyre with now. Photos, of themselves and others, doing stuff they quite probably shouldnt be. Theyre the digital natives, fresh-minted citizens of a humming online world. Theyve grown upare still growing upwith texting, Facebook, line, Snapchat. Theyre the young, and they couldnt
24、 care less about privacy. At least, thats the assumption. But amid a rash of revelations about government surveillance(监视 ), it seems its wrong. Young people do care, a lot, about privacyjust not the kind of privacy that exercises their parents. BTrue, young people post information about themselves
25、online that horrifies their elders. There remains “a basic lack of awareness“ about “the potential longer-term impact of information leaks“, says Andy Phippen, professor of social responsibility in information technology at Plymouth University. “Many younger people just dont think in terms of their
26、future employability, of identity theft, of legal problems if theyre being provocative. Not to mention straightforward reputational issues.“(Paris Brown, Phippen adds, “clearly never thought what she tweeted when she was 14“ might one day stop her being Britains first youth police commissioner.) CFa
27、r more should be done in schools to teach children to be more concerned about the future impact of their online profile and reputation, Phippen argues. But: the fact that they make mistakes does not mean they dont care about privacy. In fact, a report in May by the Pew Internet and the American Life
28、 Project found teenagers cared enough about online security for 60% to set their Facebook profiles to “private“ and to judge privacy settings “not difficult at all“ to manage. A similar number said they routinely delete past posts, block people, and post comments only particular viewerstypically, cl
29、ose friendswould understand “You have to think about what privacy means,“ says Danah Boyd, a leading youth and social media researcher. “What matters to them is social privacy: its about how to control a social situation, which is something very different from controlling information.“ DThe Pew repo
30、rt found that only 9% of teens were “very“ concerned about third parties like companies or government agencies accessing their personal informationcompared with nearly half of their parents. Most young people have precious little idea of how much data social networking sites are collecting on thembu
31、t they tend, on the whole, to be quite relaxed about the idea, particularly if it comes as a trade-off for free use of the service. ETeens, Boyd says, tend to be concerned not by unknown third parties accessing data about them, but by “things that might be seen by the people who have power over them
32、: parents, teachers, college admissions officers. The concern is more about your mother looking at your Facebook profile than government agencies or advertisers using data youve shared.“ FYoung people are concerned, in other words, about getting into trouble. But that concern is every bit as real. S
33、o teens now manage their online security with “a whole set of strategies“, says Boyd. Many dont tell the truth online: according to the Pew Internet study, 26% of teen social media users say they post fake information like a false name, age or location. Others are more subtle. Boyd uses the term “so
34、cial steganography(隐写术 )“ to describe the practice of more than 50% of young people who use in-jokes and obscure references to effectively encode what they post. GNonetheless, says Mary Madden, co-author of the Pew Internet report, all the signs are young people today are increasingly “practising go
35、od judgment. Theyll say, I use a filter in my brain: they do a lot of profile pruning(剪切 ), deleting and editing content, deleting tags. Theres a new awareness.“ This generation has, after all, “grown up, learned to function in a world of social surveillance“, says Madden. “Far from being privacy-in
36、different, they are mindful of what they post. They have a sense that adults are watching.“ HThat sentiment may in part explain the recent popularity of new social networking services like Insta-gram and Snapchat, says Madden: “Some feel the burden of the public nature of social networking. Theyre c
37、reating smaller groups with these new services.“ ISnapchat in particular appeals because it allows users to send annotated pictures, videos and messages to a controlled list of friendsand, crucially, to set a time limit for how long they can be viewed before they disappear and are deleted. Overall,
38、confirms Madden, “Were seeing a pattern that runs counter to the assumption that theres this sea of young people who just dont care about privacy. Its not borne out by the data. And in some cases, they actually have stronger opinions than some adults.“ JThat certainly seems to be the picture emergin
39、g from two polls conducted earlier this year by the Pew Research Centre for the People and the Press with the Washington Post and USA Today, in the wake of Edward Snowdens revelations about broad surveillance by state security services. In the first of these polls, on 10 June, younger respondents pr
40、oved much more likely than older to put personal privacy above an anti-terrorism probe: 45% of 18-to-29-year-olds said personal privacy was more important, even if protecting it limited the ability to investigate terrorist threatscompared with 35% in the 30-to-49 age range, and 27% of the over-50s.
41、KThe second poll, on 17 June, asked whether Snowdens leaks of classified information about the NSAs phone and email surveillance programmes was in the public interest. It found that people under 30 were the only age group in which “a clear majority“60%felt the revelations served the public interest.
42、 Older age groups were either divided, or thought the disclosures harmed the public interest. Similarly, 13-to-29 year-olds were less likely to feel Snowden should be prosecuted: fully 50% felt he should not be, against 44% who thought he should. That compares with 63% of over-50s who wanted see the
43、 whistleblower(告密者 )pursued. LCarroll Doherty, co-author of the second report, said previous surveys showed also that younger people perhaps because they came of age after the 9/11 attackswere generally less anxious about the risk of terrorism, and less likely to be concerned about the rise of Islam
44、ic extremism. Even after the Boston attacks earlier this year “made young people more aware of threat“, Doherty says, recent polling shows they still remain “less likely to link Islam to terrorism, and less likely to say that government should investigate threats at a cost of personal privacy“. Ther
45、e is “quite a consistent pattern here“, he says: “Young people tend to take a more liberal approach to issues around security and terrorism.“ MSo should the older generation worry? Stanley of the ACLU thinks not. Many people, advertisers included, are all too happy to create the impression that youn
46、g people dont care about “silly old privacy concerns“, he blogged. Many privacy invasions, too, “are silent and invisible, and only a minority of people will know and care about them. But where people are aware of their loss of control over how they are seen by others, people of all ages will always
47、 assert their need for privacy in the strongest way.“ 37 When people realize they lose control over their impressions in others eyes, they will state firmly their need for privacy. 38 A report indicated that about sixty percent of teenagers found it very easy to manage Facebook privacy settings. 39
48、In the poll about Snowdens leaks, a majority of people over 50 years old wanted to see Snowden caught. 40 Teens tend to worry about their parents accessing their information online more than they do about third parties. 41 A university professor thinks posting too much personal information online ma
49、y affect the young peoples future job-seeking or online security. 42 Some new networking services grow in popularity because they allow users to create smaller groups. 43 The Pew report found that most young people have almost no idea about the amount of information collected by social networking sites about them. 44 It is said that the teens adopt some strategies like providing false information or encoding what they want to say to ensure online s
