1、大学英语六级（ 2013年 12月考试改革适用）模拟试卷 209及答案与解析 一、 Part I Writing 1 For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay commenting on the remark “Are Western Festivals Undermining Chinese Culture?“ You can cite examples to illustrate your point. You should write at least 150 words but no more than 20
2、0 words. Write your essay on Answer Sheet 1. Section A （ A） London. （ B） Paris. （ C） New York. （ D） Beijing. （ A） Her brother. （ B） Her mother. （ C） Her boyfriend. （ D） Her husband. （ A） She saw the queen. （ B） She visited the Buckingham Palace. （ C） She met Benedict Cumberbatch. （ D） She saw many f
3、ine sceneries. （ A） She got a glimpse of the queen. （ B） She has been to London for relax. （ C） She had a wonderful time in London. （ D） She saw many old castles. （ A） He got a sore throat. （ B） He injured his leg. （ C） He broke his arm. （ D） He had a stomachache. （ A） Two days. （ B） Three days. （ C
4、） Four days. （ D） Five days. （ A） He caught cold. （ B） He ate rotten food. （ C） He breathed in harmful chemical vapours. （ D） He fell from his bicycle. （ A） Lying in his bed. （ B） Seeing the doctor. （ C） Visiting his parents. （ D） Delivering a lecture. Section B （ A） The depressing cold weather. （ B
5、） The bad economic situation. （ C） Unhealthy diet. （ D） Drugs and alcohol. （ A） Twenty. （ B） Twenty-four. （ C） Twenty-six. （ D） Twenty-eight. （ A） 10,000. （ B） 7,950. （ C） 240. （ D） 4,750. （ A） The wealthy white children. （ B） Children from middle class families. （ C） Poor white children. （ D） Poor
6、children from ethnic minorities. （ A） Since the kindergarten. （ B） Since the primary school. （ C） Since the middle school. （ D） Since the high school. （ A） Improvements of childrens achievements in school can be made. （ B） Children s heath can be improved. （ C） The school needs to care more about ch
7、ildren s special talents. （ D） The educational system can be improved. （ A） Adding some science courses. （ B） Recruiting more good teachers. （ C） Build more labs. （ D） Buying more teaching equipments. Section C （ A） Competition in business. （ B） Government grants. （ C） A type of economic policy. （ D
8、） International transportation practices. （ A） American industrialists. （ B） French economists. （ C） International leaders. （ D） Civil War veterans. （ A） The rights of private business owners should be protected. （ B） The government shouldnt interfere in private business. （ C） Politicians should sup
9、port industrial growth. （ D） Competition among companies should be restricted. （ A） It divides into two different parts. （ B） It keeps the same chemical structure. （ C） It becomes part of a new chemical compound. （ D） It produces more of the enzyme(酶 ). （ A） Provide extra energy to start the reactio
10、n. （ B） Raise the temperature of the chemicals. （ C） Release a chemical needed to start the reaction. （ D） Lower the amount of energy needed to start the reaction. （ A） To show that enzymes are very effective. （ B） To point out that enzymes can sometimes fail to work. （ C） To explain what enzymes ar
11、e made of. （ D） To describe different types of enzymes. （ A） The relationship between painting and sculpture. （ B） The ideas behind an artist s work. （ C） The practical value of a work of art. （ D） The way the eye perceives shape in sculpture. （ A） It is often displayed outdoors. （ B） It does not al
12、ways represent an object. （ C） It is three-dimensional. （ D） It is done by relatively few artists. （ A） To give an example of natural shapes. （ B） To describe early sculpture. （ C） To illustrate their use as tools. （ D） To demonstrate their role as decorative objects. （ A） They are always made of st
13、one. （ B） They are painted in bright colors. （ C） They contain moving parts. （ D） They make use of holes. Section A 26 The American【 C1】 _system, is organized around a basically private-enterprise, market-oriented economy in which【 C2】 _largely determine what shall be produced by spending their mone
14、y in the marketplace for those goods and services that they want most. Private businessmen,【 C3】 _to make profits, produce these goods and services in【 C4】 _with other businessmen: and the profit motive, operating under competitive pressures, largely determines how these goods and services are produ
15、ced. Thus, in the American economic system it is the demand of individual consumers,【 C5】 _with the desire of businessmen to【 C6】 _profits and the desire of individual to maximize their incomes, that together determine what shall be produced and how resources are used to produce it. An important fac
16、tor in a market-oriented economy is the【 C7】 _by which consumer demands can be expressed and responded to by producers. In the American economy, this mechanism is provided by a price system, a process in which prices rise and fall in【 C8】 _to relative demands of consumers and supplies offered by sel
17、ler-producers. If the product is in【 C9】 _supply relative to the demand, the price will be bid up and some consumers will be eliminated from the market. If, on the other hand, producing more of a commodity results in reducing its cost, this will tend to increase the supply offered by seller-producer
18、s, which in turn will lower the price and permit more consumers to buy the product. Thus, price is the【 C10】 _mechanism in the American economic system. A)competition B)maximize C)short D)coupled E)individual F)response G)eliminated H)private I)economic J)striving K)regulating L)mechanism M)consumer
19、s N)political O)results 27 【 C1】 28 【 C2】 29 【 C3】 30 【 C4】 31 【 C5】 32 【 C6】 33 【 C7】 34 【 C8】 35 【 C9】 36 【 C10】 Section B 36 Prison Studies A)Many who today hear me somewhere in person, or on television, or those who read something Ive said, will think I went to school far beyond the eighth grade
20、. This impression is due entirely to my prison studies. B)It had really begun back in the Charlestown Prison, when Bimbi first made me feel envy of his stock of knowledge. Bimbi had always taken charge of any conversation he was in, and I had tried to emulate him. But every book I picked up had few
21、sentences which didnt contain anywhere from one to nearly all of the words that might as well have been in Chinese. When I just skipped those words, of course, I really ended up with little idea of what the book said. So I had come to the Norfolk Prison Colony still going through only book-reading m
22、otions. Pretty soon, I would have quit even these motions, unless I had received the motivation that I did. C)I saw that the best thing I could do was get hold of a dictionary to study, to learn some words. I was lucky enough to reason also that I should try to improve my penmanship. It was sad. I c
23、ouldnt even write in a straight line. It was both ideas together that moved me to request a dictionary along with some tablets and pencils from the Norfolk Prison Colony School. D)I spent two days just thumbing uncertainly through the dictionarys pages. Ive never realized so many words existed! I di
24、dnt know which words I needed to learn. Finally, to start some kind of action, I began copying. E)In my slow, painstaking, ragged handwriting, I copied into my tablet everything printed on that first page, down to the punctuation marks. I believe it took me a day. Then, aloud, I read back, to myself
25、, everything Ive written on the tablet. Over and over, aloud, to myself, I read my own handwriting. F)I woke up the next morning, thinking about those words immensely proud to realize that not only had I written so much at one time, but Ive written words that I never knew were in the world. Moreover
26、, with a little effort, I also could remember what many of these words meant. I reviewed the words whose meanings I didnt remember. Funny thing, from the dictionarys first page right now, that “aardvark“ springs to my mind. The dictionary had a picture of it, a long-tailed, long-eared, burrowing Afr
27、ican mammal, which lives off termites caught by sticking out its tongue as an anteater does for ants. G)I was so fascinated that I went on I copied the dictionary s next page. And the same experience came when I studied that. With every succeeding page, I also learned of people and places and events
28、 from history. Actually the dictionary is like a miniature encyclopaedia. Finally the dictionarys A section had filled a whole tablet and I went on into the B s. That was the way I started copying what eventually became the entire dictionary. I went a lot faster after so much practice helped me to p
29、ick up handwriting speed. Between what I wrote in my tablet, and writing letters, during the rest of my time in prison I would guess I wrote a million words. H)I suppose it was inevitable that as my word-base broadened, I could for the first time pick up a book and read and now begin to understand w
30、hat the book was saying. Anyone who has read a great deal can imagine the new world that opened. Let me tell you something: from then until I left that prison, in every free moment I had, if I was not reading in the library, I was reading on my bunk. You couldnt have got me out of books with a wedge
31、. Between Mr. Muhammads teachings, my correspondence, my visitors, and my reading of books, months passed without my even thinking about being imprisoned. In fact, up to then, I never had been so truly free in my life. I)As you can imagine, especially in a prison where there was heavy emphasis on re
32、habilitation, an inmate was smiled upon if he demonstrated an unusually intense interest in books. There was a sizable number of well-read inmates, especially the popular debaters. Some were said by many to be practically walking encyclopaedias. They were almost celebrities. No university would ask
33、any student to devour literature as I did when this new world opened to me, of being able to read and understand. J)I read more in my room than in the library itself. An inmate who was known to read a lot could check out more than the permitted maximum number of books. I preferred reading in the tot
34、al isolation of my own room. K)When I had progressed to really serious reading, every night at about ten p.m. I would be outraged with the “lights out“. It always seemed to catch me right in the middle of something engrossing. L)Fortunately, right outside my door was a corridor light that cast a glo
35、w into my room. The glow was enough to read by, once my eyes adjusted to it. So when “lights out“ came, I would sit on the floor where I could continue reading in that glow. M)At one-hour intervals the night guards paced past every room. Each time I heard the approaching footsteps, I jumped into bed
36、 and feigned sleep. And as soon as the guard passed, I got back out of bed onto the floor area of that light-glow, where I would read for another fifty-eight minutes until the guard approached again. That went on until three or four every morning. Three or four hours of sleep a night was enough for
37、me. Often in the years in the streets I had slept less than that. N)I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read a-woke inside me some long dormant cra
38、ving to be mentally alive. I certainly wasnt seeking any degree, the way a college confers a status symbol upon its students. My homemade education gave me, with every additional book that I read, a little bit more sensitivity to the deafness, dumbness, and blindness that was afflicting the black ra
39、ce in America. Not long ago, an English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, “Whats your alma mater?“ I told him, “Books.“ You will never catch me with a free fifteen minutes in which Im not studying something I feel might be able to help the black man . O)Every time I catch
40、a plane, I have with me a book that I want to read and thats a lot of books these days. If I werent out here every day battling the white man, I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity because you can hardly mention anything I m not curious about. I dont think anybody e
41、ver got more out of going to prison than I did. In fact, prison enabled me to study far more intensively than I would have if my life had gone differently and I had attended some college. I imagine that one of the biggest problems of colleges is there are too many distractions. Where else but in pri
42、son could I have attacked my ignorance by being able to study intensely sometimes as much as fifteen hours a day? 37 In that way I began copying, and continued to copy, the whole dictionary. 38 You could never have forced me away from book. 39 In a prison whose objective was to help reintegrate pris
43、oners in a normal life, a prisoner who showed a particularly keen interest in books was encouraged and approved of. 40 “Lights out“ always seemed to happen just when I was reading something that completely absorbed my interest. 41 Today I believe that it was my ability to read that lit inside me a s
44、trong desire to be mentally active a desire which had long been suppressed. 42 The best way to overcome having to fake reading was to find a dictionary. 43 But every book I looked at was full of sentences which contained at least one word and sometimes almost all that were completely unknown to me,
45、as if a totally foreign language. 44 Many people present at my speeches these days whether actually there or watching me on television . will think that I received much more education than just eight years. 45 I believe no one ever benefited more than I did from going to prison. 46 As soon as my eye
46、s became accustomed to it, the light from the corridor lamp was enough for reading. Section C 46 Amazon is facing a battle with UK publishers as it seeks to secure more advantageous terms in its latest round of contract negotiations. The web giant wants the right to print books itself if publishers
47、fail to provide adequate stock, and wants publishers to match any pricing deals it offers to other distributers. “Print-on-demand“ Among the new clauses of the contract negotiations were the right for Amazon to print its own copies of a book if a publisher runs out of stock. The Seattle-based compan
48、y would do this using its “print-on-demand“ equipment, and would require publishers to hand over electronic versions of their titles. The process, which can print books more quickly than a traditional press, is generally thought to offer an inferior product. Publishers are concerned that if Amazon u
49、sed this method to print books, customers would blame them, and not the tech firm, for the quality. Another clause, known in the industry as a “most favoured nation“(MFN)proposal, asks publishers not to offer promotions to distributors without also offering them to Amazon. This would include selling books at a discount on the publishers own websites. It also demands that publishers inform Amazon before offering e-book deals to other clients, and give the tech firm the same terms. One re
