1、大学英语六级（ 2013年 12月考试改革适用）模拟试卷 203及答案与解析 一、 Part I Writing 1 For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay on the topic “Stress“. You can either analyze its causes or share some means to reduce it. Examples can be cited to illustrate your point. You should write at least 150 words but no
2、 more than 200 words. Write your essay on Answer Sheet 1. Section A （ A） Embarrassed. （ B） Excited. （ C） Joyous. （ D） Dejected. （ A） Ten minutes late. （ B） Ten minutes early. （ C） At ten oclock. （ D） Five minutes early. （ A） Books on Internet. （ B） Books on physics. （ C） Industrial Revolution. （ D）
3、Books on history. （ A） The librarian thought that the books had been borrowed. （ B） The librarian thought that the man was embarrassed. （ C） The librarian thought that the exit gate was broken. （ D） The librarian thought that the man wanted to steal the books. （ A） Supermarket. （ B） Yard. （ C） Resta
4、urant. （ D） Hotel. （ A） Trim and wrap fresh fruit and vegetables. （ B） Stock shelves. （ C） Work at the check-out counter. （ D） Sell fresh fruit and vegetables. （ A） Sometimes he has to work outdoors in bad weather. （ B） It is too hard. （ C） He cannot get a good pay. （ D） It is extremely boring. （ A）
5、 Workers. （ B） Cleaners. （ C） Students. （ D） Waiters. Section B （ A） You can understand more about your place in the society. （ B） You can know more about yourself. （ C） You can anticipate more excitement. （ D） You can have more about social experiences. （ A） A simple lifestyle. （ B） A more interest
6、ing life orientation. （ C） Exciting outdoor activities. （ D） Wildness and attraction of the nature. （ A） It urges campers to treat its service with respect. （ B） It urges campers to love the nature. （ C） It shows respect to the nature. （ D） It requires the campers to be clean in outdoor place. （ A）
7、St. John s University. （ B） Massachusetts Institute of Technology. （ C） University of California, Berkeley. （ D） Yale University. （ A） Lecture notes. （ B） Exams. （ C） Contact with teachers. （ D） Videos of demonstrations. （ A） About 116 schools around the world now offer course materials free online
8、to the public. （ B） Open Course Ware only offers materials from graduate courses. （ C） Visitors can learn the same things M.I.T. students learn, and they can receive credits toward a degree. （ D） There are more visitors of the site from outside the United States and Canada. （ A） Swedish. （ B） Portug
9、uese. （ C） Chinese. （ D） Thai. Section C （ A） So they can feel its weight. （ B） So they can examine its contents. （ C） So they can guess its age. （ D） So they can admire its beautiful color. （ A） Tropical insects. （ B） Decayed leaves. （ C） Tree resin. （ D） Bird feathers. （ A） Its amber contains nume
10、rous fossils. （ B） Its amber is the most durable. （ C） Its amber is opaque. （ D） It is the site of the oldest amber deposits. （ A） Amber mined from the AppalachianMountains. （ B） Amber with no imperfections. （ C） Amber containing organic material. （ D） Amber with no inclusions. （ A） The difficulties
11、 faced by the colonists. （ B） The skill of military heroes. （ C） The courage of one man. （ D） The cause of the Revolutionary War. （ A） He did not fight in the Revolution my War. （ B） He did not really exist. （ C） He was an important town leader. （ D） He was not the only messenger. （ A） It was well p
12、lanned. （ B） It was completed in a short time. （ C） It was led by military commanders. （ D） It helped him get elected to public office. （ A） They did not use square numbers. （ B） They used complex measuring instruments. （ C） They recorded math exercises on tablets. （ D） They calculated the link of t
13、riangle sides. （ A） Pictures of triangles. （ B） Calculations using square numbers. （ C） Measurements of angles. （ D） Greek symbols. （ A） They taught the Mesopotamians about square numbers. （ B） They were less advanced in mathematics than the Mesopotamians. （ C） They did not use square numbers. （ D）
14、They knew how to measure angles. Section A 26 It s widely agreed that girls generally start talking earlier than boys, and use more complex vocabulary. When they【 C1】 _school, most girls have slightly better verbal skills than boys on average, they are a month or two ahead. As they progress through
15、primary school, girls continue to【 C2】 _boys when it comes to verbal skills. By the time children leave primary school, girls are about a year ahead with reading and the【 C3】 _is even bigger for writing. However, it should be noted that boys are roughly【 C4】 _with girls when it comes to attainment i
16、n maths at primary school. The gap in attainment at the age of 16 had led some teachers to believe that single-sex lessons in core subjects are the way forward when it comes to【 C5】 _male students and improving boys grades. They argue that boys, for instance, feel less【 C6】_in subjects like literacy
17、 when there are no female students in the classroom to compete with. Others believe that girls and boys thrive best when the opposite sex is taken out of the equation completely, and【 C7】 _a single-sex environment, especially at secondary school level. Some schools believe that a male【 C8】 _ whether
18、 it is a male teacher or more involvement from dad at home is a key factor in impelling boys and improving their grades. Others advocate a more “boy-friendly“ environment at school, whether it s【 C9】 _more books in the library that appeal to boys or trying out different teaching styles in lessons to
19、【 C10】 _boys in learning. A)presence B)identical C)outperform D)stocking E)gap F)motivating G)disheartened H)sorry I)level J)engage K)cheering L)recommending M)advocate N)start O)appearance 27 【 C1】 28 【 C2】 29 【 C3】 30 【 C4】 31 【 C5】 32 【 C6】 33 【 C7】 34 【 C8】 35 【 C9】 36 【 C10】 Section B 36 A)Redu
20、ce, reuse, and recycle. Recycling has become a part of American life. It also is an important part of the waste-processing industry. In fact, many cities and towns in the United States now have recycling programs. To learn how such a program works, we will go to a recycling centre in the eastern sta
21、te of Maryland. B)The recycle bin in the home or office is often the last stop for empty containers. But for papers, plastics, cardboards and cans, it is the beginning of a trip thousands of kilometres long. Yehenew Gedshew directs a recycling centre near Washington, DC. “As long as people throw the
22、ir trash, we have a job.“ His recycling centre processes about 35 tons of material an hour. How does it process that much every hour? Yehenew Gedshew says the business is highly-organized. “First what happens is, dump trucks bring materials to our site. They dump it on the tipping floor. It goes to
23、the first screen where the cardboard and the rest of the material is sorted out.“ The rest of the material goes on a belt that carries the glass and plastic to the last screening area(筛分区 ). The glass gets crushed and the plastic gets sorted and flattened. C)Local recycling programs often require pe
24、ople to separate plastics, papers and glass. But Yehenew Gedshew says sorters at his recycling centre do all that work. He says the centre ships most of its plastic to a processing centre in North Carolina, more than 500 kilometres to the south. At that centre, mountains of bottles become piles of p
25、lastic. They are ready to be melted and shaped into something new. D)From the store to the recycling bin, and from there to just about anywhere you can imagine, plastic bottles spend a lot of time on the road. And so have we. We now go to Fayetteville, North Carolina. The city is home to the Clear P
26、ath Recycling centre. It is one of the largest plastic recycling centres in the United States. E)The Clear Path Recycling Centre receives 8 to 10 trucks a day. That means more than 18,000 kilograms of plastic every day. The goods come to the centre in large piles or bales, like the ones at the recyc
27、ling centre in Maryland. F)Not far from the Clear Path Recycling is a huge storage area for the plastic objects. They enter the recycling centre to begin the process that will change them. “This is where the whole bottles enter the whole bottle wash. It s just like your front-end loading washing mac
28、hine at your house. It s just a lot longer, and a lot bigger.“ G)Hot water washes paper labels off the drink bottles and removes dirt. The plastic is broken up into what the plastics recycling industry calls “PET flake(PET碎片 ).“ Another centre will buy the flake to melt and mould into something else
29、. H)Plastic bottles spend their lives on the move. Machines mould and fill them with our favourite drinks. When we are done drinking, machines destroy the bottles and make them into new bottles. Their journey never ends. But our trip has come to an end in Wilson, North Carolina. I)In our program, we
30、 have described the trip made by plastic bottles from stores to recycling bins and then to recycling centres. The bottles are then broken down into small pieces, which are put into bags. Now, we will witness the rebirth of a plastic bottle. J)Mark Rath is a supervisor at Peninsula Packaging. At his
31、business, pieces of plastic become products like carry-out trays at food stores and restaurants. Peninsula Packaging melts and flattens plastic so it can be shaped and moulded. The process is complex. “We take the clear chips like this, and it goes into an oven, and it cooks for about 3 to 4 hours i
32、n that oven.“ K)The plastic cooks at almost 200 . When the melted plastic comes out of the oven, it is made into carry-out trays or other food packaging. “We unwind the plastic into a very long oven where we heat it again, and then we 11 form it in a forming station. We 11 follow it through and see
33、what happens to it.“ What happens to the recycled plastic involves a vacuum, lots of pressure, and believe it or not more recycling. L)Mark Rath says all of the plastics in this packaging centre become some kind of container in their next lives. “That 11 end up being a fresh-cut-salad base. Not sure
34、 where it goes, but it 11 end up some place with celery and carrots and tomatoes.“ It has taken several days, but a plastic bottle like the one we bought in Washington, DC has now become a salad tray in North Carolina. M)Countless things affect the health of our environment. What we take from nature
35、 may not harm it as much as what we add to it. For years, many people have harmed the environment by throwing away plastic grocery bags. But in Washington, a “bag tax“ has changed the behaviour of many people, and the way business affects the environment. N)The Anacostia River flows through southeas
36、t Washington into the better-known Potomac River. The Anacostia is often called the citys “other river.“ Tommy Wells is a member of the Washington, DC city council. He is worried about the health of river. He notes that some people have called the Anacostia, one of the 10 most polluted rivers in the
37、 country. Mr. Wells says he was tired of seeing so many plastic bags in or near the river. “I wanted something that got into peoples heads: not their pockets.“ O)Stores in Washington now require people to pay five cents for each disposable plastic bag. The money goes into the “Anacostia River Clean
38、Up Fund.“ People who bring their own bag do not pay anything extra. Has the “bag tax“ helped? Bret Bolin is with the Anacostia Watershed Society, a group that is working to protect the river. “In just about 3 and a half months of the bag fee, people were already reporting that they were seeing a lot
39、 less bags in the river and at cleanup sites than in past years.“ Councilman Tommy Wells agrees that the bag tax worked. “There was a 60 percent reduction of the amount of bags that were pulled out of the river.“ The local government estimates that stores gave shoppers almost 300 million bags in 200
40、9. Mr. Bolin says the bag tax caused the number to drop sharply. “And they were estimating something like 55 million being distributed in 2010, which is an 80 percent reduction, which is amazing.“ 37 Bag tax has played a key role in reducing bags in and near the Anacostia River. 38 After the trunks
41、bring in trash the first thing we need to do is sorting them out. 39 The Anacostia River is greatly polluted by many plastic bags and it worries Tommy Wells a lot to see people just care about making money instead of environment protection. 40 The Clear Path Recycling Centre receives a large amount
42、of plastic everyday. 41 Many things can be harmful to environment such as throwing away plastic bags but this behaviour has been changed due to the bag tax. 42 Plastics at Peninsula Packaging will become different containers such as a salad tray, in many places across the country. 43 After hot water
43、 washes off labels and dirt, the plastic will be broken into small pieces waiting to be melted and molded into other things. 44 Plastic bottles spend their life on the move from the drink container to the recycling centre to be made into new bottles or other containers. 45 In a huge storage area the
44、 bottles will enter an enormous machine which looks like a big front-end loading washing machine in people s home. 46 Peninsula Packaging melts and flattens plastic in a big oven so it can be shaped and melded into new things like carry-out trays. Section C 46 Old stereotypes die hard. Picture a vid
45、eo-game player and you will likely imagine a teenage boy, by himself, compulsively hammering away at a game involving rayguns and aliens that splatter when blasted. Ten years ago that might have borne some relation to reality. But today a gamer is as likely to be a middle-aged commuter playing “Angr
46、y Birds“ on her smartphone. In America, the biggest market, the average game-player is 37 years old. Two-fifths are female. Over the past ten years the video-game industry has grown from a small business to a huge, mainstream one. With global sales of $56 billion in 2010, it is more than twice the s
47、ize of the recorded-music industry. Despite the downturn, it is growing by almost 9% a year. Is this success due to luck or skill? The answer matters, because the rest of the entertainment industry has tended to treat gaming as being a lucky beneficiary of broader technological changes. Video gaming
48、, unlike music, film or television, had the luck to be born digital. In fact, there is plenty for old media to learn. Video games have certainly been swept along by two forces: demography and technology. The first gaming generation the children of the 1970s and early 1980s is now over 30. Many still
49、 love gaming, and can afford to spend far more on it now. Meanwhile rapid improvements in computing power have allowed game designers to offer experiences that are now often more cinematic than the cinema. But even granted this good fortune, the game-makers have been clever. They have reached out to new customers with new methods. They have branched out into education, corporate training and even warfare, and have embraced digital downloads and mobile devices with enthusiasm. Though big-budget games are still popular,
