1、大学英语六级（ 2013年 12月考试改革适用）模拟试卷 221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 following drawing. In your essay, you should first describe the drawing and interpret its meanings, and then give your comment on it. You should write at least 150 word
2、s but no more than 200 words. Write your essay on Answer Sheet 1. Section A （ A） He wanted her to apply for another visa. （ B） He hasnt seen her for a long time. （ C） He wanted to tell her the visas been granted. （ D） He was eager to send her the application form. （ A） There are too many people livi
3、ng there. （ B） The cost of living there is relatively high. （ C） It has frequent natural disasters. （ D） The weather there is pleasant. （ A） To research the climate. （ B） To visit her relatives. （ C） To get her health insurance. （ D） To finish graduate courses. （ A） Go abroad for study at once. （ B）
4、 Celebrate for her granted visa. （ C） Get her health certificate. （ D） Apply for another visa. （ A） He had to attend Prof. Smiths lecture. （ B） He had to go to see the dentist. （ C） He had to wait for an emergency call. （ D） He had to do some research on volcanoes. （ A） They are very dangerous to th
5、e nearby community. （ B） They can bring rare materials to the surface. （ C） They produce more heat to the ocean. （ D） They can prevent the ice sheet from melting. （ A） She knows a lot about active volcanoes. （ B） She works as an assistant for the professor. （ C） She seems not very familiar with the
6、lecture. （ D） She is eager to learn more about the globe. （ A） The water will flow south. （ B） The sea level will rise. （ C） The ocean will become more acid. （ D） The floods will destroy cities. Section B （ A） Postponement. （ B） Preparation. （ C） Confidence. （ D） Information. （ A） The day before pre
7、sentation. （ B） Before youre given the assignment. （ C） Right after accepting the assignment. （ D） When youre already on the stage. （ A） It catches every audiences attention. （ B） It makes the audience daydreamers. （ C） It determines listeners understanding level. （ D） It helps the speakers to organ
8、ize ideas. （ A） It happened in the night. （ B） There was no survivor. （ C） A lorry collided with a coach. （ D） The collision was caused by fog. （ A） Workers long working hours. （ B） Workers poor working conditions. （ C） The low rate of inflation. （ D） The high level of unemployment. （ A） It ended so
9、on when the bus drivers demand was satisfied. （ B） It would continue despite offer for wage increase. （ C） It wouldnt end until next Monday. （ D） It failed for both sides couldnt reach an agreement. （ A） It burned out 6 towns. （ B） 4 people lost their lives so far. （ C） 24 people were injured. （ D）
10、About 300,000 houses were burnt down. Section C （ A） There are three different types of storage systems. （ B） Different memory holds information for different amounts of time. （ C） Different types of storage systems have different functions. （ D） Memory works as a kind of storage system for informat
11、ion. （ A） There is much room for information in it. （ B） It holds information for about 15 to 20 seconds. （ C） It holds information almost indefinitely. （ D） It maintains information for about 25 to 30 seconds. （ A） Declarative memory and procedure memory. （ B） Declarative memory and short-term memo
12、ry. （ C） Short-term memory and procedure memory. （ D） Sensory memory and procedure memory. （ A） Our skills and habits. （ B） Our personal lives. （ C） General knowledge or facts. （ D） Factual information. （ A） The term is not widely used today. （ B） The term began to be used after 1867. （ C） The term
13、was used in a famous novel. （ D） The term was invented by Horatio Alger. （ A） It is the dream of the American to lead a common life. （ B） It is the hope of the American to have a better quality of life. （ C） It is the wish of the American to live an extraordinary life. （ D） It is the strong desire t
14、o have an average level of life. （ A） It may lead to people seeking to improve their lifestyle. （ B） It could result in the desire to create opportunities for ourselves. （ C） It can bring about more financial security and better jobs. （ D） It may lead to an out-of-control consumerism and materialism
15、. （ A） Being healthy and charming. （ B） To be wealthy and attractive. （ C） Being famous and attractive. （ D） To be healthy and accepted. （ A） Because it protects you from getting sunburnt. （ B） Because it helps you get a perfectly tanned skin. （ C） Because its in charge of filtering the harmful sun
16、rays. （ D） Because it repairs your skin that damaged by the sunlight. （ A） It helps protect the bone and protects us from diseases. （ B） It may protect the bone and cure some diseases. （ C） It helps build up new bones and protects us from diseases. （ D） It could build up new bones and cure some dise
17、ases. Section A 26 As the world excitedly greeted Snuppy, the first cloned (克隆 ) dog, commentators celebrated our cleverness. Many feel proud that our age is marked by technological【 C1】 _ . But an article in British newspaper The Observer recently said true innovation has【 C2】 _ from our society. T
18、he writer was Peter Watson, author of the book IdeasA History from Fire to Freud. Watson began: “The year 2005 cant begin to compete with 1905 in terms of【 C3】_ innovations.“ “Writing a history of ideas over the past three years, I have been【 C4】 _ time and again by the fact that, contrary to what w
19、e tell ourselves all the timeon TV, in newspapers and magazines, in【 C5】 _ and in government propagandaour present world is nowhere near as【 C6】 _ and innovative as it thinks it is, certainly in comparison with past ages. “Yes, we are dazzled by mobile phones, cameras, digital TV, and the www, by la
20、ser-guided surgery and bombs, by DNA fingerprinting, and now by cloning. These are not【 C7】 _ things but do they change the way we think in importantin fundamentaldirections?“ Watson quotes Richard Southern, Oxford University historian, who died last year: “Southern thought the most interesting time
21、s in history were 1050-1250 and 1750-1950.“ “Each of these periods transformed our understanding of ourselves【 C8】 _ “. “But what great ideas or transformations have been【 C9】 _ in the half-century since 1950?“ Watson asked, pointing out that except for a few innovations such as the Internet, most s
22、cientific research【 C10】 _ modifies previous studies. A) rarely E) distributed I) radically M) interesting B) introduced F) important J) struck N) advertising C) merely G) advances K) disappeared O) pessimistic D) intimate H) statistics L) small 27 【 C1】 28 【 C2】 29 【 C3】 30 【 C4】 31 【 C5】 32 【 C6】
23、33 【 C7】 34 【 C8】 35 【 C9】 36 【 C10】 Section B 36 Join the “Sleep Challenge“ A Did you get enough sleep last night? Probably not. “We are a nation of sleep-deprived women,“ says Cindi Leive, editor-in-chief of Glamour magazine. While everyone in college burns the candle at both ends, Leive says wome
24、ns sleep problems only get worse with the arrival of kids and careers. After a while, she says, you begin to think that its selfish to put your own need for sleep ahead of all of your familys needs and all the items on your to-do list. Its a self-defeating strategy because when youre tired, you cant
25、 accomplish as much as you can when youre rested. You never win. B Leive and Arianna Huffington are out to change that dynamic through Sleep Challenge 2010, a joint venture between Glamour and The Huffington Post that began at the beginning of the year and will continue through the end of the month.
26、 Both women are blogging on their sites about their own experiences and including lots of helpful tips for readers who want to join in. Leive said she and Huffington came up with the idea when they met last summer on a panel about women and power at Maria Shrivers Womens Conference in California. Th
27、ey agreed that fatigue was the one complaint all women sharedno matter where they stood on the corporate ladder. Leive suggested that the two challenge each other to see who could do the best job of improving their sleep. C It was “half in joke,“ Leive says, but the idea began to seem better and bet
28、ter the more they thought about it. Studies show that adults who dont get enough sleep increase their risk of heart disease and mood disorders. Theyre more likely to get into car accidents. Their concentration and thinking is impaired. And theyre even more likely to gain weight. “I was shocked when
29、I started reading the research to find the links between sleep and virtually every other health problem,“ Leive says. “I know that I could reduce my risk of a million different diseases by eating better and exercising, but sometimes those things are hard. Sleeps easy.“ D Well, maybe not so easy, acc
30、ording to the blog posts. Its clear that “challenge“ is the right word for their effort. In one of her first posts, Huffington wrote about how she was tempted to stay up late talking to her daughter, who was home from college. “She, of course, can sleep all morning if she wants,“ Huffington wrote. “
31、I have to be up at 6:30.“ Huffington tried to resolve the situation by having a “chat-filled dinner,“ going to a movie with her daughter, and then going to a coffee house for a caffeine-free “nightcap.“ E For Leive, one of her most difficult moments so far was getting out of bed on the weekend close
32、 to her weekday wake-up time. “Going to bed at 11 p.m. this Saturday night and then getting up at 6:30 a.m. the next morning made me feel a little like a third-grader,“ Leive wrote. “Plus, I felt irrationally annoyed at my husband, who got to lie in bed until 9.“ But, she admits, she felt “awesome“
33、after getting the extra rest. F Recent nights have been less successful. Huffington, who lives in Los Angeles, wrote that she “fell off the wagon“ on day 11 when two friends from Washington were in town. “Everyone was having such a great time no one wanted it to endincluding me,“ she wrote. “My comp
34、atriot (同胞 ) Zorba the Greek suddenly popped into my head, reminding me that life is about living each moment fully. You cant let anything, Zorba whispered in my ear, even something as positive as the sleep challenge, get in the way of fully embracing the moment. So I surrendered to my inner Zorba.“
35、 Huffington says she paid for staying up until 2:30 a.m. by being exhausted the next afternoon. G Leive had a bad night as well. After a later-than-usual dinner with friends, she tried to get a full nights rest but woke up in the middle of the night and found herself “mentally scrolling (翻滚 ) throug
36、h my to-do list.“ She couldnt get back to sleep as she worried about unfinished tasks. One problem on that night, she said, might have been the glass of wine she had at dinner. Alcohol can disrupt sleep if you drink it too close to bedtime. H Even with this less-than-perfect performance, theres no q
37、uestion that Leive and Huffington are publicizing a major health issue for women. According to the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, womens sleep tends to be lighter and more easily disturbed than mens. Women are also more likely to wake up saying they dont feel rested even after theyve had a full
38、 night of sleep. Young working mothers have a particularly difficult time getting the rest they need. I Insomnia (失眠 ) may seem like an inevitable side effect of modern life, but it can also be a sign that something else is wrong. “You should take it seriously if it has been going on for two to thre
39、e weeks,“ says Dr. Mary Susan Esther, a sleep doctor. “If youre really struggling, then you need to see a physician.“ Sleep problems could be triggered by a mood disorder like depression. Other possible causes include medication you might be taking, hormonal changes, or just bad sleep habits. J If t
40、heres nothing physically wrong, Esther offers four tips to get your sleep back on track. 1. Have a standard wake-up time. K You cant always control the hour that you actually fall asleep, but you can make yourself get up at the same time every day. If you stick to that schedule, eventually you shoul
41、d find yourself falling asleep more easily. Thats something both Leive and Huffmgton have been doing. And that also means that you have to get up early on weekends as well, as Leive did so painfully. Esther says your weekend wake-up time should be no more than an hour later than your regular wake-up
42、 time. “The most common night to have problems sleeping is Sunday night because youre worried about Monday and you slept in on Sunday,“ Esther says. 2. Make sure you have downtime before bed. L Your body needs a signal that its almost time for sleep. Most parents do this with their kids by giving th
43、em a bath, then reading them a storya regular bedtime routine. Adults need this as well, so shut off computers and TVs at least an hour before you want to be asleep. Lowering the lights in the house helps as well; this signals your brain that its the end of the day. 3. Avoid caffeine after noon. M Y
44、es, its hardespecially with a Starbucks on every corner. But it takes many hours for the caffeine to work through your system and if you have a cup of coffee or tea at dinner, it will interfere with your ability to get to sleep. That also applies to soft drinks that contain caffeineand even chocolat
45、e. 4. Make sleep a priority. N You need to schedule sleep time just like everything else. Its not of little significance. It all sounds simple, but as Leive and Huffington have found, reforming long-held sleep habits takes real effort. Leive admits shes a little uncertain about what will happen when
46、 the month-long challenge ends. “I am sure I will have a relapse (故态复萌 ) when theres a string of nights where I want to be up until 2 in the morning,“ she says. But, she adds, “I hope some of it will stick.“ 37 It takes real effort to avoid a relapse into bad sleep habits. 38 Doctors recommend that
47、people have a regular wake-up time. 39 It is found that womens sleep quality is generally lower than mens. 40 Sticking to a regular wake-up time helps you fall asleep more easily. 41 Staying up too late at night can result in being exhausted the next day. 42 People who dont sleep well are more likel
48、y to be involved in a car accident. 43 Lowering the lights, like giving a kid a bath, is a signal that its time for sleep. 44 Studies found that people who dont get enough sleep are more likely to get heart disease. 45 According to an editor, womens sleep problems become more prominent among working
49、 mothers. 46 Two women were talking on their sites about their own experiences, and they agreed that women should sleep more. Section C 46 Thousands of students, faculty and staff boycotted classes and staged rallies across the 10-campus University of California (UC) on Thursday to protest dramatic cuts to the systems budget and proposed additional hikes in undergraduate fees. The authorities of the University of California, stung by a 20%
