1、大学英语六级（ 2013年 12月考试改革适用）模拟试卷 215及答案与解析 一、 Part I Writing 1 For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay based on the picture below. You should start your essay with a brief description of the picture and then discuss the importance of grammar in English learning. You should give sound
2、 arguments to support your views and write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words. Section A （ A） 80,000. （ B） 100,000. （ C） 400,000. （ D） 800,000. （ A） Helping people start their own small businesses. （ B） Providing accommodation for holidaymakers. （ C） Linking providers of spare rooms to ho
3、lidaymakers. （ D） Linking providers of parking spaces to drivers. （ A） About 34,000. （ B） About 800,000. （ C） About 20,000. （ D） About 200,000. （ A） By collecting donations from its believers. （ B） By promoting its online religion services. （ C） By renting out its church for big ceremonies. （ D） By
4、charging travelers money for using its parking spaces. （ A） In the basement. （ B） On the ground floor. （ C） On top floors. （ D） In the penthouse. （ A） In 236 BC. （ B） In the Middle Ages. （ C） During World War I. （ D） During the Industrial Revolution. （ A） Wind. （ B） Gas. （ C） Steam power. （ D） Solar
5、 power. （ A） The US. （ B） Italy. （ C） China. （ D） Russia. Section B （ A） She performed acting roles for TV shows. （ B） She sang for a local music group. （ C） She released her first music album. （ D） She joined a music tour of America. （ A） Best-selling Female Artist. （ B） Queen of Pop. （ C） MTV Vide
6、o Music Awards. （ D） The Star of Hollywood. （ A） She divorced her husband. （ B） She won a Grammy Award. （ C） She was engaged and married. （ D） She released her comeback album. （ A） It has the highest water cleanliness standard in Europe. （ B） It has the best natural swimming pool in Europe. （ C） It
7、has the best purification specialist in Europe. （ D） It has the cleanest river in Europe. （ A） Whether the water is clean enough. （ B） If it can be used in various weather conditions. （ C） If it will lead to less visitors. （ D） Whether the river traffic will be affected. （ A） To separate the changin
8、g rooms from the pool. （ B） To provide a path to the swimming area. （ C） To make the pool shallow enough for children. （ D） To protect people from waves caused by river traffic. （ A） Environment agencies. （ B） The city of London. （ C） The state government. （ D） Public donation. Section C （ A） Incide
9、nts of workers caused global anger. （ B） Kafala system leaves workers open to abuse. （ C） An Indonesian worker was starved to death. （ D） Migrant workers can be targets of abuse. （ A） Her supporters paid the family of the man she killed. （ B） She got help from the International Labor Organization. （
10、 C） She argued that her employer was raping her at the time. （ D） She spent a month in a hospital because of her injuries. （ A） It needs negotiation for better conditions. （ B） It requires at least a three-year suspension. （ C） It can become similar to human trafficking. （ D） It needs ILOs approval
11、on Convention 189. （ A） His books have been sold worldwide. （ B） He can speak and write eight languages. （ C） His lifestyle is well-known in the world. （ D） He has been to many countries before. （ A） It appears in your physiology. （ B） It is in your value system. （ C） It is emphasized by philosopher
12、s. （ D） It carries its own beliefs. （ A） It is the centre of the world. （ B） It is not easy to reach. （ C） It has no room for lies. （ D） It is bright like the sun. （ A） Try to get what youve missed. （ B） Love the abundance you have. （ C） Think of ways to be better. （ D） Be satisfied with your past.
13、（ A） Imitating the words in movies. （ B） Remembering words in a song. （ C） Listening and repeating words. （ D） Speaking the words to a rhythm. （ A） The three groups did exactly the same. （ B） The first group did the best in 4 tests. （ C） The second group performed better. （ D） The third group came o
14、ut on top. （ A） Singing could lead to new ways of learning a foreign language. （ B） Learners shouldnt use music all the time to learn a foreign language. （ C） Language learners already know the value of using singing. （ D） Adults learn words better when remembering them in songs. Section A 26 We mig
15、ht be living for longer than ever, but we are sick. About 95 percent of people have at least one health complaint, with a third of us having more than five. Becoming better at avoiding early death means we spend longer being【 C1】 _to diseases and disabilities that result from our bodies wearing out.
16、 So【 C2】 _, by pushing back death in the name of health, we are creating more disability overall than if we died younger. “The focus of health has been so much on tackling【 C3】 _of death, rather than disability,“ says Theo Vos of the University of Washington in Seattle, one of the authors of a study
17、【 C4】 _how patterns of disease and ill health have changed in 188 countries between 1990 and 2013. The number of years of healthy life lost globally rose from 537.6 million in 1990 to 764.8 million in 2013, a rise of 43 percent. The authors【 C5】 _this mainly to population growth and ageing. Vos is【
18、C6】 _, however, that the diseases and disabilities of ageing are【 C7】 _being managed better, through better【 C8】_and healthier lifestyles. Some researchers say that a complete upheaval(大变动 )in health systems is needed, which shifts resources from treating disease in hospitals to preventing diseases
19、in the community and in peoples homes. “Dont wait for illness, invest in the【 C9】 _of health,“ says Rifat Atun of Harvard University, the author of an accompanying commentary. “We cant manage these【 C10】 _conditions in hospitals, so there needs to be an emphasis on maintaining good health, preventin
20、g disease and slowing progression of disease when it does happen,“ he says. “Theres no choice: It has to happen. “ A)attribute F)fatal K)maintenance B)causes G)gains L)pursue C)chronic H)generally M)reality D)confident I)gradually N)susceptible E)evaluating J)ironically O)treatments 27 【 C1】 28 【 C2
21、】 29 【 C3】 30 【 C4】 31 【 C5】 32 【 C6】 33 【 C7】 34 【 C8】 35 【 C9】 36 【 C10】 Section B 36 Reporting From the Webs Underbelly A)In the last year, Eastern European cybercriminals have stolen Brian Krebss identity a half dozen times, brought down his website, sent heroin to his doorstep, and called a SWA
22、T team to his home just as his mother was arriving for dinner. Mr. Krebs, 41, tries to write pieces that cannot be found elsewhere. His widely read cybersecurity blog, “Krebs on Security“, covers a particularly dark corner of the Internet. He covers this niche with much the same perseverance of his
23、subjects, earning him their respect and occasional angry. B)Mr. Krebs is so entrenched in the digital underground that he is on a first-name basis with some of Russias major cybercriminals. Many call him regularly, leak him documents about their rivals, and try to bribe and threaten him to keep thei
24、r names and dealings off his blog. His clean-cut looks and plain-speaking manner seem more appropriate for a real-estate broker than a man who spends most of his waking hours studying the Internets underbelly. But few have done more to shed light on the digital underground than Mr. Krebs. C)His obse
25、ssion with hackers kicked in when he was just another victim. In 2001, a computer worm locked him out of his home computer. He started looking into it. And he kept looking, learning about spam, computer worms and the underground industry behind it. Eventually, his anger and curiosity turned into a f
26、ull-time beat at The Post and then on his own blog. D)Today, he maintains extensive files on criminal syndicates(联合会 )and their tools. Some security experts readily acknowledge that he knows more about Russias digital underground than they do. “I would put him up against the best threat intelligence
27、 analyst,“ said Rodney Joffe, senior vice president at Neustar, an Internet infrastructure firm. “Many of us in the industry go to him to help us understand what the Eastern European criminals are doing, how they work with each other and who is doing what to whom.“ That proved the case in December w
28、hen Mr. Krebs uncovered what could be the biggest known Internet credit-card robbery. That month, he had been poking around private, underground forums where criminals were bragging about a fresh haul of credit and debit cards. E)Soon after, one of Mr. Krebss banking sources called to report a high
29、number of fraudulent purchases and asked whether Mr. Krebs could discover exactly where they were coming from. The source said that he had bought a large batch of stolen cards from an underground site and that they all appeared to have been used at Target. Mr. Krebs checked with a source at a second
30、 bank that had also been dealing with a narrow sharp point in fraud, Together, they visited one forum and bought a batch of stolen cards. Again, the cards appeared to have one thing in common: They had been used at Target from late November to mid-December. F)On the morning of Dec. 18, Mr. Krebs cal
31、led Target. The companys spokeswoman did not return his call until several hours later, but by then he had enough to run his article: Criminals had breached the registers in Targets stores and had made off with tens of millions of payment card numbers. In the following weeks, Mr. Krebs discovered br
32、eaches at Neiman Marcus; Michaels, the arts and crafts retailer; and White Lodging, which manages franchises for major hotel chains like Hilton, Marriott and Starwood Hotels. It is still unclear whether the attacks were related, but at least 10 other retailers may have been hit by the same hackers t
33、hat hit Target and are reluctant to acknowledge it. G)That is where Mr. Krebs comes in. Unlike physical crime a bank robbery, for example, quickly becomes public online thefts are hushed up by companies that worry the disclosure will inflict more damage than the theft, allowing hackers to raid multi
34、ple companies before consumers hear about it. Mr. Krebs is “doing the security industry an enormous favor by disseminating(宣传 )real-time threat information,“ said Barmak Meftah, chief executive of Alien Vault, a threat-detection service. “We are only as strong as our information. Unless we are very
35、specific and effective about exchanging threat data when one of us gets breached, we will always be a step behind the attackers.“ The account of victims from the breaches at Target, Neiman Marcus and others now exceeds one-third of the United States population a grim factoid(趣味小新闻 )that may offer Mr
36、. Krebs a strange sense of career vindication(澄清 ). H)He first developed an interest in computers because his father, an Air Force engineer, was obsessed with the latest devices. But he did little about it until 1998, when he began writing about technology for The Post, after working his way up from
37、 the mailroom. Cybersecurity became a bit of a focus after his own computer was infected by that worm in 2001. I)In 2005, he started The Posts Security Fix blog, occasionally frustrating editors with hacker jargon and unnerving some who worried he was becoming too close to sources. By 2006, Mr. Kreb
38、s was a fixture in hacker forums, learning code, and ever the dutiful reporter borrowing Russian language tapes from his local library since most of what he tracks originates in the former Soviet Union and its satellite states. In 2009, The Post asked Mr. Krebs to broaden his focus to general techno
39、logy news and policy. When he declined, he was let go. J)He used his severance(解职金 )to start his own blog, Krebs on Security, from his “command centre,“ a guest room at the Annandale, Va., home he shares with his wife. There, three 19-inch computer screens help him keep tabs on the underworld, while
40、 another monitors security footage of his house. K)Mr. Krebss readership is growing. In December, 850 000 readers visited his blog, mostly to learn more about the breach at Target. Though he will not disclose figures, Mr. Krebs says the salary he now makes from advertising, occasional speaking engag
41、ements and consulting work is a “nice bump“ from what he earned at The Post. But there are risks implicit to being a one-man operation. “The work that hes done exposing Eastern European hackers has been seminal,“ said Tom Kellermann, vice president for cybersecurity at Trend Micro, a computer securi
42、ty company. “But Brian needs a bodyguard.“ L)Russian criminals routinely feed Mr. Krebs information about their rivals that they obtained through hacks. After that, he began receiving daily calls from a major Russian cybercriminal seeking his files back. Mr. Krebs is writing a book about the experie
43、nce, called Spam Nation, to be published by Sourcebooks this year. M)In the meantime, hackers have been competing in a dangerous game of one-upmanship to see who can pull the worst trick on Mr. Krebs. They often steal his identity. One opened a $ 20 000 credit line in his name. Admirers have made mo
44、re than $ 1 000 in bogus PayPal donations to his blog using hacked accounts. Others have paid his cable bill for three years with stolen credit cards. N)The antics(滑稽的动作 )can be dangerous. In March, as Mr. Krebs was preparing to have his mother over for dinner, he opened his front door to find a pol
45、ice SWAT team pointing semiautomatic guns in his direction. Only after his wife returned home from the grocery store to find him handcuffed did the police realize Mr. Krebs had been the victim of “swatting.“ Someone had called the police and falsely reported a murder at their home. O)Mr. Krebs said
46、he did plan to move and keep his new address secret. But these days it is almost impossible. Though he goes to great lengths to protect his personal information, last month his wife received an e-mail from Target informing her that their mailing address and other personal information had been stolen
47、 in the breach. “I got that letter,“ he said, “and I just had to laugh.“ 37 Many hackers are playing tricks on Mr. Krebs, which is seen as a competition. 38 Mr. Krebs is working on a book about his experience fighting against the Internet crimes. 39 Mr. Krebs arranged one room at home to be his offi
48、ce and equipped it with several computer screens. 40 Mr. Krebs provides some useful information about the Eastern European criminals for security experts. 41 By the blog “Krebs on Security“, Mr. Krebs earns more than what he got from The Post. 42 Internet crimes usually dont become public as quickly
49、 as physical crimes. 43 In addition to the credit-card heist at Target, Mr. Krebs also found out the breaches at Neiman Marcus, Michaels and White Lodging. 44 It was his anger and curiosity turned Mr. Krebs into a fighter against Internet crimes. 45 Judging from Mr. Krebss appearance, people usually dont link him to the fighting against the dark side of the Internet. 46 Mr. Krebs left The Post because he refused to widen the subjects of his articles. Section C 46 The Alzheimers Association and the National
