1、大学英语六级（ 2013年 12月考试改革适用）模拟试卷 19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 A Package Tour or a Self-guided Tour? You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words following the outline given below. Write your essay on Answer Sheet
2、 1. 1有些人认为跟团旅游好处多 2有些人认为自助旅游好处多 3我的看法 A Package Tour or a Self-guided Tour? Section A （ A） The man wasnt at home yesterday evening. （ B） The mans grandmother didnt want him to go out. （ C） The woman didnt want to meet the man at the party. （ D） The woman didnt wait for the man at the corner of the s
3、treet. （ A） The man doesnt agree with the report at all. （ B） The man agrees with most part of the report. （ C） The man doesnt think their studies are as busy as expected. （ D） The woman doesnt think putting on a play is practical. （ A） Ask the woman in advance. （ B） Write a message to Dr. Tedder. （
4、 C） Ask Dr. Tedder for allowance. （ D） Go to Dr. Tedders listening class. （ A） He lost his key in Marks bookstore. （ B） He works in Marks bookstore. （ C） He asks the woman to pick up the key for him. （ D） He doesnt know the key was lost. （ A） She is a house-keeper. （ B） She spends a lot on employing
5、 a house-keeper. （ C） She always does housework to make things in order. （ D） She enjoys doing housework at home. （ A） A teacher. （ B） An engineer. （ C） A repairman. （ D） A surgeon. （ A） By ship. （ B） By bus. （ C） By air. （ D） By train. （ A） This room can only accommodate up to 60 students. （ B） All
6、 the students will listen to the lecture. （ C） There are three rooms for the students. （ D） The room has been enlarged. （ A） They will be proved to be true. （ B） They are often opposite to reality. （ C） They are not relevant to reality. （ D） They fail to explain anything in reality. （ A） Her mother
7、almost lost her. （ B） Her mother taught her to swim. （ C） She almost died in the water. （ D） She always had nightmares. （ A） When she began to understand dreams. （ B） When she became brave enough. （ C） After she shared her dreams with her mother. （ D） After she was told the accident of drowning. （ A
8、） Dreams originate from real life. （ B） Dreams are always opposite to reality. （ C） It is hard to explain dreams scientifically. （ D） The same things often recur in dreams. （ A） The ability to develop software products. （ B） Flexibility and independence in work. （ C） A good relationship with custome
9、rs. （ D） Experience in sales of software products. （ A） Investigate the needs of customers. （ B） Train people how to use software products. （ C） Teach salespersons to use software. （ D） Develop new products for her company. （ A） She wants to know more about the market. （ B） She would like a better p
10、osition in her company. （ C） She needs more knowledge to get the job. （ D） She expects a promising career after graduation. Section B （ A） It has not been very successful. （ B） It has long become a new trend. （ C） It has met with strong resistance. （ D） It has attracted a lot of users. （ A） It saves
11、 time. （ B） It increases parking capacity. （ C） It ensures drivers safety. （ D） It reduces car damage. （ A） Collect money and help new users. （ B） Maintain the automated system. （ C） Stay alert to any emergency. （ D） Walk around and guard against car theft. （ A） They will vary with the size of vehic
12、les. （ B） They will be discountable to regular customers. （ C） They will be lower than conventional parking. （ D） They will be reduced if paid in cash. （ A） Half of the methane in the atmosphere is from animals. （ B） Methane has become the chief source of greenhouse gas. （ C） Consumer behavior may b
13、e influenced by the environment. （ D） Meat consumption has an adverse effect on the environment. （ A） It takes time for the human body to get used to it. （ B） It lacks the vitamins and minerals essential for health. （ C） It enhances immunity to certain diseases. （ D） It helps people to live a much l
14、onger life. （ A） Produce green food. （ B） Waste no food. （ C） Quit eating meats. （ D） Grow vegetables. （ A） They do not know any solution. （ B） They do not give up drunk driving. （ C） They do not behave in public places. （ D） They do not admit being alcohol addicts. （ A） To stop them from fighting b
15、ack. （ B） To thank them for their hospitality. （ C） To teach them the European lifestyle. （ D） To relieve their pains and sufferings. （ A） Without intervention they will be a headache to the nation. （ B） With support they can be brought back to a normal life. （ C） They readily respond to medical tre
16、atment. （ D） They pose a serious threat to social stability. Section C 26 Small dogs generally live longer than big dogs so that small Yorkshire terrier(猎 狐狗 )next door could be around for a long time. But body size isnt the only factor that【 B1】 _ how long dogs survive. Personality influences life
17、span, too, according to a new study that might help explain how animal【 B2】 _ evolve. Study on animals from ants to apes has found that different【 B3】 _have different personalities. Some are timid, others【 B4】 _Biologists have proposed that temperaments(性情 )evolved along with life history. Bold, vio
18、lent animals use a lot of energy fast in【 B5】 _short lives, the thinking goes, whereas calmer animals last longer, saving themselves to【 B6】 _ later in life. But its hard to run evolutionary【 B7】 _on these personalities in anything longer lived than a fruit fly. So evolutionary biologist Vincent fro
19、m Canada【 B8】 _an idea about dogs. “All these breed differences reflect an experiment on artificial selection,“ says Vincent. The huge diversity of dogs resulted not from natural selection, but from generations of humans selecting animals with traitsthe ability to chase foxes into holes, or herd she
20、ep, or sit【 B9】 _on a sofa. But evolutionary physiologist Joseph Williams of Ohio State University in Columbus isnt convinced that what happened in dogs【 B10】 _evolution in nature. “For me, it still remains to be seen. Dogs are contrary to what you would expect in nature in terms of longevity,“ he s
21、ays. Elephants can live for decades, whereas a mouse might make it through only for several seasons. On the other hand, a Chihuahua will generally outlast a Saint Bernard. 27 【 B1】 28 【 B2】 29 【 B3】 30 【 B4】 31 【 B5】 32 【 B6】 33 【 B7】 34 【 B8】 35 【 B9】 36 【 B10】 Section A 36 The continuous presentat
22、ion of scary stories about global warming in the popular media makes us unnecessarily frightened. Even worse, it【 C1】 _our kids. Al Gore famously【 C2】 _ how a sea-level rise of 20 feet would almost completely flood Florida, New York, Holland, and Shanghai, even though the United Nations says that su
23、ch a thing will not even happen,【 C3】 _that sea levels will rise 20 times less than that. When【 C4】 _with these exaggerations, some of us say that they are for a good cause, and surely there is no harm done if the result is that we focus even more on tackling climate change. This argument is astonis
24、hingly wrong. Such exaggerations do plenty of harm. Worrying【 C5】 _about global warming means that we worry less about other things, where we could do so much more good. We focus, for example, on global warmings impact on malaria(疟疾 )which will put slightly more people at risk in 100 yearsinstead of
25、 tackling the half a billion people【 C6】 _ from malaria today with prevention and treatment policies that are much cheaper and dramatically more effective than carbon reduction would be. 【 C7】 _also wears out the publics willingness to tackle global warming. If the planet is【 C8】 _, people wonder, w
26、hy do anything? A record 54% of American voters now believe the news media make global warming appear worse than it really is. A majority of people now believe incorrectlythat global warming is not even caused by humans. But the worst cost of exaggeration, I believe, is the unnecessary alarm that it
27、 causesparticularly among children. An article in The Washington Post cited nine-year-old Alyssa, who cries about the possibility of mass animal【 C9】 _from global warming. The newspaper also reported that parents are searching for “productive“ outlets for their eight-year-olds obsessions(忧心忡忡 )with
28、dying polar bears. They might be better off educating them and letting them know that, contrary to common belief, the global polar bear population has doubled and perhaps even quadrupled(成为四倍 )over the past half-century, to about 22 000.【 C10】 _diminishingand eventually disappearingsummer Arctic ice
29、, polar bears will not become extinct. A)confronted F)doomed K)excessively B)extinction G)suffering L)Reservation C)terrifies H)Besides M)estimating D)depicted I)Despite N)extracting E)isolation J)distracted O)Exaggeration 37 【 C1】 38 【 C2】 39 【 C3】 40 【 C4】 41 【 C5】 42 【 C6】 43 【 C7】 44 【 C8】 45 【
30、C9】 46 【 C10】 Section B 46 Returning to Science A)Teresa Garrett was working part-time as a biochemistry postdoc(博士后 ). She had an infant at home, and she was miserable. She and her husband were considering having a second child. She didnt like leaving her daughter with a daycare provider, and she w
31、ondered if her slim income justified the expense of childcare. She decided to stay home full time. B)It was a lonely but practical decision, she says. She hadnt ruled out the possibility but she did not expect to return to science: After all, the conventional wisdom would equate several years of par
32、enting leave with the end of a research career. Garrett eventually had two daughters and spent their early years at home. C)The challenge of managing a science career and personal family obligations is not a new issue, particularly for women. In a career where productivity and publications define yo
33、ur value, can you take a couple of years off and then make a successful return? When you do, will employers trust your devotion to your job? D)For Garrett, the answer to both questions was “Yes.“ First, she found a short-term teaching tutor at Duke University, the institution where she had done her
34、Ph.D. And then Christian Raetz, who had been her Ph. D. adviser, offered her a postdoc. The timing was perfect: She was ready to start a more regular work schedule, and her husband was interested in starting a business. Today, she is a chemistry professor at Vassar College. Garrett credits Raetz bot
35、h for his faith in her abilities and his willingness to judge her contributions on quality and productivity and not the number of hours she spent in the laboratory. “People are always shocked to know that you can take time off and come back,“ she says. E)Returning to research after an extended perso
36、nal leave is possible, but it may not be straightforward. Progress can be slow and there may be some fallout from a break. The path back doesnt come with a road map or a timeline. Your reentry will have a different rhythm than your initial approach because this time you have to balance your career w
37、ith the needs of a family. The uncertainty can make you feel isolated and alone. But if you are persistent and take advantage of the resources that are available, you can get it done. Stepping Sideways F)After time away from the work force, its particularly easy to underestimate your value as a scie
38、ntist andhenceto take one or more backward steps. Dont, says Ruth Ross, who nearly made that mistake after spending 4 years at home with her children. A Ph. D. pharmacologist with industry experience, she applied for a technician job at the University of Aberdeen in the United Kingdom as she planned
39、 her return to science. She would have taken the job if it had been offered, she says, but “that probably would have been a bad career move.“ As it turned out, the university decided she was over-qualified. G)Instead of taking a step back, take a step sideways: If you left a postdoc, return to a pos
40、tdoc, perhaps with a special career reentry fellowship. A faculty member at Aberdeen encouraged Ross to apply for a newly established career reentry fellowship from the Wellcome Trust. Funding from that organization supported her postdoctoral research until the university hired her into a faculty po
41、sition in 2002. H)After 2 years at home with her son and twin daughters followed by 3 years searching for project management jobs in the biotech industry, biochemist Pia Abola got wind of an opening at the Molecular Sciences Institute(MSI). An MSI staff scientist needed skills like hers but lacked m
42、oney, so the two applied jointly for an NIH career reentry supplement. Shes now a protein biochemist and grant writer at Prosetta Bioconformatics. Independence and Flexibility I)Instead of stepping backward or sideways, physicist Shireen Adenwalla took a step forward. Instead of taking another postd
43、oc, she set up an independent research program on soft money. Early in her career, Adenwalla took 15 months off, caring for her first child and then looking for another postdoc. When she and her physicist husband decided to move to the University of Nebraska, Lincolnhe had accepted a tenure-track po
44、sitionAdenwalla turned down postdoc opportunities. Instead she arranged a visiting faculty position, followed by a post as a research assistant professor. J)“I think that was a very smart thing,“ she says today. “Establishing an independent research program is very important.“ Her starting salary wa
45、s just $ 15 000, and she got just $ 5 000 in startup assistance. She borrowed equipment, taught courses, took on graduate students, and published her research. She had a lab and an office, but both got moved aroundher lab three times, her office twice. K)Adenwalla missed having real start-up money,
46、her own equipment, and the institutional investment that comes with a tenure-track position. On the other hand, she was her own boss, so she was able to take 6 months off when she had her second child and work part time for a while after her third child was born. Eventually she was hired to a tenure
47、-track post. L)Flexible or part-time hours can smooth the transition back into the scientific work force. Some reentry fellowships specify a part-time option and most are accommodating, but even if you dont have a fellowship you can ask for a work schedule that meets your needs. Ross, for example, t
48、ook advantage of the part-time provision of the Wellcome Trust Fellowship. When Garrett took the position on the Lipid Maps grant, she negotiated a 30-hour-a-week schedule. Patience: an Essential Virtue M)Two months before physicist Marija Nikolic-Jarics scheduled dissertation(专题论文 )defense at Simon
49、 Fraser University, her husband was diagnosed with an aggressive brain tumor. Over the next 17 months, she focused on her husband and his cancer treatments. After his death, she moved with her little son to Winnipeg to be near family. N)She tried to jump-start her thesis project several times, the first in 1998, but she wasnt ready yet and became discouraged. Eventually, she found the motivation to return. She started from the beginnin
