1、大学英语六级（ 2013年 12月考试改革适用）模拟试卷 210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 “My Opinions on Students Wearing Famous Brand“. You can cite examples to illustrate your point. You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 wor
2、ds. Write your essay on Answer Sheet 1. Section A （ A） They are talking about the current affairs. （ B） They are having a discussion. （ C） They are quarrelling with each other. （ D） They are having an interview. （ A） To provide software. （ B） To do trouble shooting. （ C） To sell products. （ D） To do
3、 system analysis. （ A） His graduate school training and his internship. （ B） His qualifications and his experience. （ C） His diligence and his responsibility. （ D） His attitude towards this job. （ A） To inspire and unite people. （ B） To sell more products. （ C） To invite more customers. （ D） To pict
4、ure a bright future. （ A） How to invest smartly? （ B） What should we do to earn money? （ C） How to keep a balanced life? （ D） Why we need investment? （ A） To be reasonable. （ B） To have realistic expectations. （ C） To understand the range of possibilities. （ D） To have clear goals. （ A） 4. （ B） 3. （
5、 C） 2. （ D） 1. （ A） To prepare for the worst. （ B） To set a clear goal. （ C） To do diversified investments. （ D） To invest for a long term. Section B （ A） To consult friends who have travelled before. （ B） To search on the Internet. （ C） To watch a colour movie. （ D） To read travel books. （ A） An am
6、bitious and diligent person. （ B） A reasonable and well-educated person. （ C） An outgoing and being-around person. （ D） A well-read and cultured person. （ A） Because many things change quickly in the 21st century. （ B） Because writers are out of date. （ C） Because sometimes the date of publication i
7、s not accurate. （ D） Because we need to make sure the contents are easy to find. （ A） A five-day week. （ B） 1,899 hours. （ C） 2,100 hours. （ D） 1,992 hours. （ A） The small companies. （ B） The unions. （ C） The workers. （ D） The industrialists. （ A） Younger Japanese would spend more time on leisure. （
8、 B） Older Japanese would spend more time on leisure. （ C） Older Japanese are not content with watching television. （ D） Younger Japanese would not spend time on dancing. （ A） Why Japanese should work less. （ B） The difference between Japanese and the West. （ C） Work less and more leisure. （ D） Work
9、more and less leisure. Section C （ A） Their inability to circulate water. （ B） Their increased sensitivity to heat. （ C） Low reproductive rates. （ D） Heavy pollution in the atmosphere. （ A） It is damaged by extremely dry weather. （ B） It loses water to stronger trees. （ C） Insects destroy the tree s
10、 bark. （ D） Certain beetles introduce a fungus to the tree. （ A） By controlling the carriers of the disease. （ B） By growing a stronger kind of the elm. （ C） By watering infected elm trees. （ D） By cutting down all infected elms. （ A） They painted in their spare time. （ B） They lacked formal art tra
11、ining. （ C） They used a more traditional approach to color. （ D） They followed rules established by art schools. （ A） They lack bright colors. （ B） They are realistic depictions. （ C） They follow ancient traditions. （ D） They are inferior to French naive paintings. （ A） Their works were unsigned. （
12、B） Many of their works were destroyed. （ C） They never stayed in one place for a long time. （ D） They worked for only a few years. （ A） Why American industries grew rapidly in the nineteenth century. （ B） How advances in transportation helped American cities develop. （ C） Transportation between the
13、cities of the United States. （ D） Great American inventors of the nineteenth century. （ A） It was no longer possible to keep horses. （ B） It was difficult to find jobs. （ C） They could no longer walk to work. （ D） They had to pay more for their housing. （ A） They could be controlled independently. （
14、 B） They were fire resistant. （ C） They could keep operating for a longer period of time. （ D） They offered more room for passengers. （ A） It made the subways much quieter. （ B） It brought electric light to the tunnels. （ C） It allowed passengers to breathe cleaner air in the tunnels. （ D） It allowe
15、d subways to be repaired inexpensively. Section A 26 Education of exceptional children means provision of special educational services to those children who are either handicapped or gifted. Exceptional children differ from average children in mental characteristics, sensory abilities, physical char
16、acteristics, emotional behaviour, or communication abilities to the extent that they require special educational services to develop their【 C1】 _. The Department of Education【 C2】 _that 10 to 20 percent of the children in the Unite States suffer from handicaps. Another 2 to 3 percent are considered
17、gifted. Special education provides these children with learning experiences suitable to their unique abilities. Caring for people who have disabilities is a relatively【 C3】 _idea. In ancient times disabled people were left to die. During the Middle Ages they were treated more【 C4】 _, but it was not
18、thought that they could learn. In the 19th century, residential treatment centres were【 C5】 _, first in Europe and then in the US by individual states, to care for people who were blind, deaf, severely retarded, or suffered from severe emotional disorders. By the 20th century,【 C6】 _classes and publ
19、ic day schools were begun, but these served very few children. After World War II the attitude of Americans concerning the education of persons who were disabled changed significantly.【 C7】 _for special education was assumed by state legislatures and the federal government. Parent groups formed to【
20、C8】 _for the rights of children with disabilities, joined with professional educational programs. In 1925 the US congress passed the Education for All Handicapped Children Act which【 C9】 _a free and appropriate education to all children in the US between the ages of 3 and 21. The law provides funds
21、for special education programs to states and local districts that【 C10】 _with a set of guidelines. A)established B)humanely C)installed D)estimates E)Responsibility F)guarantees G)potential H)probability I)special J)evaluates K)private L)lobby M)new N)personally O)comply 27 【 C1】 28 【 C2】 29 【 C3】 3
22、0 【 C4】 31 【 C5】 32 【 C6】 33 【 C7】 34 【 C8】 35 【 C9】 36 【 C10】 Section B 36 The Dodge Brothers A)It was 100 years ago this week that the Dodge brothers founded the powerful car brand that still bears their name. But few have heard the tale of how the two-fisted brothers started their business in Can
23、ada. John and Horace Dodge spent nearly eight years working in Windsor as machinists, founding their first company here, and learning how to massively produce manufactured goods. B)The Evans & Dodge Bicycle Company is nearly forgotten now. But it taught the brothers how to run a leading-edge technol
24、ogy businesswhich it was in those days, says Windsor automotive historian Mickey Moulder. After selling out to CCM in 1900, the brothers took $7,500 in capital out of the little Windsor Company back to Detroit and founded Dodge Brothers. So laid the foundation of the gigantic fortune they managed to
25、 produce before both dying in 1920. C)What a pair the quarrelling Dodge brothers were, with their red hair, their barrel chests and tendency for heavy boozing and bar fighting. Horace was the quieter mechanical brain, doggedly working out problems on his work bench with a micrometer until midnight.
26、John was the play boy, the salesman, the spokesman for the both of them. Although born four years apart, John in 1864 Horace in 1868, they were inseparable. Which is what brought them to Windsor. They had moved to Detroit from rural Niles, Mich., in 1886 at ages 22 and 18, taking jobs in the same fa
27、ctory, Murphys Boiler Works. If they needed any toughening up, which is doubtful, they learned it there and the nearby waterfront taverns. D)But a fit of tuberculosis eventually made the heavy work impossible for John, so in 1892 he came to Windsor looking for lighter duties at the Dominion Typograp
28、h Company on Sandwich Street(now Riverside Drive). E)According to family legend, the owners of the company, located in the Medbury Block just west of Ouellette Avenue, wanted to hire only one machinist. But John announced both he and Horace would be hired as a team or neither of them would work in C
29、anada. The two leading technologies of the day were typesetting machines and bicycles. And Dominion happened to make both. That especially suited Horace. F)Moulder, a car collector and former Ford of Canada executive, has been a lifelong student of automotive history. He s also co-chairman of the Ca
30、nadian Transportation Museum in Essex, and he tells the Dodge story with enthusiasm. “Bicycles were the high-tech mechanical device of the 1880s and 1890s. Everybody and the two brothers(literally)were fascinated by them,“ Moulder says, “The Dodge brothers, the Leland brothers(Cadillac, Lincoln)and
31、the Wright brothers all built bicycles before their gasoline machines“. G)John became foreman at Dominion Typograph, Horace a “skilled machinist,“ according to the Windsor City Directory of 1894. Within five years its owner, Fred Evans, had taken in the brothers as full partners and they devoted the
32、mselves to building bicycles exclusively. H)Their products were known for being extremely smooth, reliable and robust, just as their cars would be a few years later. By November, 1897, Evans & Dodge employed 100 people in Windsor. I)But the overpopulated bicycle industry began consolidating, and Eva
33、ns and Dodge decided to sell. Although John had married a Canadian from Walkerton, Ont, and Horace was married on his lunch-break at a church in Walkerville, the Dodges had never lived in Windsor. So they took their little nest egg back to Detroit and rented a new shop. They started taking orders fo
34、r difficult-to-machine parts. Business took off due to high quality work and respect for deadlines. J)Their first big customer: Ransom Olds, father of the first mass produced American automobile. They built engines and transmissions for him, quickly making big money. “The Dodge brothers got a reputa
35、tion for being really, really good suppliers,“ Moulder says. K)Henry Ford came knocking next, and they were soon supplying him with nearly complete cars. Ford was broke, was a poor machinist and couldnt make much himself. “The Dodge brothers essentially provided the heart and soul of the first Ford
36、cars built in 1903 and 1904,“ Moulder says. “The running chassis(底盘 )was made by Dodge Brothers. Ford just put on the fenders, the windshield, the headlights, the seats, dressed it up. Ford didnt make its own first car. Dodge Brothers did. And thats why Ford became so well known, because the car was
37、 so well built“. L)“They were geniuses. They were tough bastards, too,“ says Moulder. “They were big guys, and you didnt cross either of them or badmouth them because theyd hear about it. And if they happened to see you in a bar at the wrong timeeven if you were a lawyerafter they had a few drinks i
38、n them . The Dodges would either drag the offending party out into the street for their punishment or break up the whole bar. Then next morning theyd come back and pay for all the damages. They were tough birds, which is why they took on Henry Ford. Everybody else was afraid of him, but they took hi
39、m on and won.“ M)Fords defeat in a dispute over stocks the Dodges owned in his company came in the form of a lawsuit which netted the Dodges $25 millionmore than enough to launch their own car brand in 1914. They started by incorporating all the ideas Henry Ford had rejected. Technologically, they w
40、ere well ahead of the pack. N)“We ve got a beautiful Dodge Brothers car, a 1920 four door sedan,“ Moulder says. Its on permanent display at the Transportation Museum on the Arner Town Line. “Its full of advances that you would never find on any other car at the time.“ For instance: the first metal w
41、eather stripping to keep rain out of the passenger compartment, the first one-piece roof stampings, the first silent starters, and the first 12-volt electrical systems. A Dodge always started in the cold due to those 12-volt systems, which is why the rest of the world eventually followed suit, Mould
42、er says. O)The brothers got to enjoy quite a bit of their vast wealth, building castle-like mansions outside Detroit and commissioning giant yachts. But their premature deaths at ages 55 and 52 shocked the world at the time. John sat for days on end at Horace s bedside when his younger brother was s
43、tricken by the Spanish flu, leaving only when he himself collapsed from it, dying a few days later. Horace rallied and lived a few more months before following his beloved older brother into a crypt in the familys huge tomb in Detroits Woodlawn Cemetery. Johns Canadian wife ran Dodge Brothers the co
44、mpany until 1925, selling out for $147 million to a Wall Street investment firm, which flipped it three years later to Walter P. Chrysler for $175 million. 37 The Dodge brothers were tough guys and thats one of the reason that they worked with Henry Ford who was afraid by many other people. 38 The b
45、rothers first big customer is Ransom Olds from whom they earned a lot of money as well as a good reputation. 39 The two brothers both died at their fifties and the company was eventually sold out by Johns wife. 40 The Dodge brothers at first were worker of The Evans & Dodge Bicycle Company which tau
46、ght the brothers how to run a leading-edge technology business and paved their way to success. 41 After they left the overpopulated bicycle industry, they moved to Detroit and rented a new shop where they began to build automobile parts for other companies. 42 The bicycles produced by the Dodge brot
47、hers were known for being extremely smooth, reliable and robust. 43 According to Moulder bicycles were the high-tech mechanical device of the 1880s and 1890s. Everybody and the two brothers(literally)were fascinated by them. 44 Ford cars reputation is largely owing to The Dodge brothers who essentia
48、lly provided the heart and soul of the first Ford cars built in 1903 and 1904. 45 Due to tuberculosis, John gave up the heavy job and came to Windsor looking for lighter duties at the Dominion Typography Company. 46 The two brothers have different characters and they are inseparable and both have re
49、d hair, barrel chests and tendency for heavy boozing and bar fighting. Section C 46 South Africa has 11 official languages. If you want to say hello, its “sawubona“ in Zulu, and “hallo“ in Afrikaans. Now, South Africas school children may start using “ni hao“ to say hello. The countrys education minister says, the nation is adding the Mandarin language teaching in some schools. Mandarin is the official spoken language of China. That country is a major trading power for South Africa. A recent agreeme
