1、大学英语六级（ 2013年 12月考试改革适用）模拟试卷 226及答案与解析 一、 Part I Writing 1 For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled How to Establish a Healthy Living Style? You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words. Write your essay on Answer Sheet 1. 1.越来越多的人开始崇尚简单、健康的生活方式； 2.
2、造成这种现象的原因； 3.我们可以 Section A （ A） To do some clerical work. （ B） To own her own law office. （ C） To become a well-known lawyer. （ D） To practice law in well-known law offices. （ A） Her personal characters. （ B） Urgent need for lawyers in her country. （ C） Its social status and promising future. （ D）
3、Her childhood dream. （ A） She can offer more help for people to buy their own houses. （ B） She can do a better job for a woman client in a divorce case. （ C） She can help people who are mistreated win more justice. （ D） She can make more money and be better respected. （ A） America has the best educa
4、tion systems. （ B） Female lawyers are respected there. （ C） She followed her parents advice. （ D） America has some of the best law schools. （ A） A government department. （ B） A standard unit for measuring weight. （ C） The value of precious metals. （ D） The humid weather. （ A） Checking the accuracy o
5、f scales. （ B） Calculating the density of metals. （ C） Observing changes in the atmosphere. （ D） Measuring amounts of rain fall. （ A） It was eroded by some chemicals. （ B） The scales are obscure. （ C） The standard for measuring had changed. （ D） It absorbed moisture and was inaccurate. （ A） It is re
6、latively cheap for so much precious metal. （ B） It is difficult to judge the value of such an object. （ C） It is reasonable for an object with such an important function. （ D） It is too expensive for such a light weight. Section B （ A） They prefer left hands to right hands. （ B） They use both hands
7、before age three. （ C） They are not allowed to be lefties. （ D） Their hand preference is clear when theyre born. （ A） They have a good sense of space. （ B） They are much cleverer than others. （ C） They are more interested in sports. （ D） They have a good imagination. （ A） To advised more people to u
8、se left hands. （ B） To draw public attention to lefties. （ C） To help people know more about lefties. （ D） To offer some free objects for lefties. （ A） He looks quite anxious and uneasy. （ B） He appears to be clever and calm. （ C） He has long hair and a moustache. （ D） He pretends to be a teacher. （
9、 A） Well-dressed women and old people. （ B） Travelers from foreign countries. （ C） High school students and rich teachers. （ D） Well-dressed men and slightly drunken men. （ A） He never steals the poor and weak people. （ B） He knows where and when to steal the shoppers. （ C） He knows the district ver
10、y well and run away quickly. （ D） He comes out only on the payday of companies. （ A） Commit more serious crimes. （ B） Go to travel in another country. （ C） Find a new place to steal. （ D） Become a teacher of pickpockets. Section C （ A） They are now seen as the exclusive possession of the computer ge
11、eks. （ B） They used to be a way of keeping an online diary known by many people. （ C） They are regarded as an important way for people to get news and ideas. （ D） They can be seen everywhere now and people are very crazy about them. （ A） Blogs usually include more text and pictures. （ B） Blogs inclu
12、de the space for people to write feedbacks. （ C） Internet sites normally have no more than one page. （ D） Internet sites enable people to respond to what you write. （ A） The world of blog writers and blog readers. （ B） The blogs that are read by so many people. （ C） The atmosphere created by the blo
13、g writers. （ D） The atmosphere created by the blog readers. （ A） They may become an invincible power to influence people. （ B） They may not be as influential as the traditional mass media. （ C） They may determine the result of the US presidential election. （ D） They may change peoples attitudes towa
14、rds democracy. （ A） Denim jeans. （ B） Informal jeans. （ C） Jeans with zippers. （ D） Blue jeans. （ A） Because they were considered informal and casual. （ B） Because they became a symbol of youth rebellion. （ C） Because they had the zipper down the front. （ D） Because they were not a wardrobe staple a
15、t the time. （ A） They were with the bib. （ B） They were quite loose. （ C） They showed the body. （ D） They were stone-washed. （ A） Return the bikes back to the same pick-up point. （ B） Use the bike for a short or long trip. （ C） Swipe their ordinary travel cards or citizen cards again. （ D） Give it a
16、 pay when using the bike for over 30 minutes. （ A） Raise the bike riders awareness of safety. （ B） Revise all the transportation laws in Seoul. （ C） Provide free insurance for the bike riders. （ D） Expand the length of the bike-only roads. （ A） Improved air condition and better health. （ B） Reduced
17、traffic costs and the greater fitness. （ C） Less infrastructure demands and construction. （ D） More friendly communities and environment. Section A 26 The English national character is dualistic: One aspect is conservative, the other extroverted (性格外向的 ). The pub is a fine example of the conservativ
18、e aspect of English character. The pub, unlike the bar in the U.S., is a focal【 C1】 _ for the “locals.“ One goes to the pub for the same reasons one used to go to church: for fellowship and spiritual【 C2】 _ . There is nothing flashy or plastic about most pubs. Many look like ones living room, full o
19、f soft chairs, couches, a fireplace, and bright lights. The pubs keep【 C3】 _ hours, too. There are no all-night or 3 A.M. public bars. When the pubs close everyone goes home. The pub represents【 C4】 _ with control and in good taste. This control is【 C5】 _in English humor. Most Americans find nothing
20、【 C6】_ in English comedy shows, since English humor is word oriented while American humor is more action oriented. The same control that is found in English pubs and humor is also found in the English【 C7】 _ of living. Where else does one stand in line quietly for the bus or the taxi? However, there
21、 is another side to the English Character the【 C8】 _ the adventurous, and the innovative. It was not the U.S. but conservative England that produced the Beatles with their long hair and sounds that have【 C9】 _ a decade of rock musicians and adolescents. The English are innovators and experimenters i
22、n many areas: A. S. Neills Summerhill has become the model for progressive education. R. D. Laing claims that it is not the individual who is insane but his society, which【 C10】 _ categorizes him and forces him to fit into abstract norms. A) concrete E) influenced I) funny M) orthodox B) enlightenme
23、nt F) indignantly J) pace N) constantly C) bizarre G) point K) perception O) exemplified D) pleasure H) amplified L) respectable 27 【 C1】 28 【 C2】 29 【 C3】 30 【 C4】 31 【 C5】 32 【 C6】 33 【 C7】 34 【 C8】 35 【 C9】 36 【 C10】 Section B 36 Why We Need Good Teachers A The relative decline of American educat
24、ion at the elementary- and high-school levels has long been a national embarrassment as well as a threat to the nations future. Once upon a time, American students tested better than any other students in the world. Now, ranked against European schoolchildren, America does about as well as Lithuania
25、, behind at least 10 other nations. Within the United States, the achievement gap between white students and poor and minority students stubbornly persists and as the population of disadvantaged students grows, overall scores continue to fall. B For much of this time roughly the last half century pr
26、ofessional educators believed that if they could only find the right teaching method, all would be well. They tried New Math, open classrooms, Whole Language but nothing seemed to achieve significant or lasting improvements. C Yet in recent years researchers have discovered something that may seem o
27、bvious, but for many reasons was overlooked or denied. What really makes a difference, what matters more than the class size or the textbook, the teaching method or the technology, or even the curriculum, is the quality of the teacher. Much of the ability to teach is innate (天生的 ) an ability to insp
28、ire young minds as well as control unruly classrooms that some people instinctively possess. Teaching can be taught, to some degree, but not the way many graduate schools of education do it, with a lot of boring or marginally relevant theorizing and teaching method. In any case the research shows th
29、at within about five years, you can generally tell who is a good teacher and who is not. D It is also true and unfortunate that often the weakest teachers are degraded to teaching the neediest students, poor minority kids in inner-city schools. For these children, teachers can be make or break. “The
30、 research shows that kids who have two, three, four strong teachers in a row will eventually excel, no matter what their background, while kids who have even two weak teachers in a row will never recover,“ says Kati Haycock of the Education Trust and coauthor of the 2006 study “Teaching Inequality:
31、How Poor and Minority Students Are Shortchanged on Teacher Quality.“ E Nothing, then, is more important than hiring good teachers and firing bad ones. But here is the rub. Although many teachers are caring and selfless, teaching in public schools has not always attracted the best and the brightest.
32、There once was a time when teaching was one of the few jobs not denied to women and minorities. But with social progress, many talented women and minorities chose other and more highly compensated fields. One recent review of the evidence by McKinsey firing a teacher invites a costly court battle wi
33、th the local union. G Over time, inner-city schools, in particular, surrendered to a defeatist mindset. The problem is not the teachers, went the thinking its the parents (or absence of parents); its society with all its distractions and pathologies (病态 ); its the kids themselves. Not much can be do
34、ne, really, except to keep the assembly line moving through “social promotion,“ regardless of academic performance, and hope the students graduate. Or so went the conventional wisdom in school superintendents offices from Newark to L.A. By 1992, “there was such a dramatic achievement gap in the Unit
35、ed States, far larger than in other countries, between socioeconomic classes and races,“ says Kate Walsh, president of the National Council on Teacher Quality. “It was a scandal of monumental proportions, that there were two distinct school systems in the U.S., one for the middle class and one for t
36、he poor.“ H In the past two decades, some schools have sprung up that defy and refute what former president George W. Bush memorably called “the soft bigotry (偏执成见 ) of low expectations.“ Generally operating outside of school bureaucracies as charter schools, programs like KIPP (Knowledge Is Power P
37、rogram) have produced inner-city schools with high graduation rates (85 percent). KIPP schools dont cherry-pick they take anyone who will sign a contract to play by the rules, which require some parental involvement. And they are not one-shot wonders. There are now 82 KIPP schools in 19 states and t
38、he District of Columbia, and, routinely, they far outperform the local public schools. KIPP schools are mercifully free of red tape and bureaucratic rules. KIPP schools require longer school days and a longer school year, but their greatest advantage is better teaching. I It takes a certain kind of
39、teacher to succeed at a KIPP school or at other successful charter programs, like YES Prep. KIPP teachers carry cell phones so students can call them at any time. The dedication required makes for high burnout rates. It may be that teaching in an inner-city school is a little like going into the Spe
40、cial Forces in the military, a calling for only the chosen few. J Yet those few are multiplying. About 20 years ago, a Princeton senior named Wendy Kopp wrote her senior thesis proposing an organization to draw graduates from elite schools into teaching poor kids. Her idea was to hire them for just
41、a couple of years, and then let them move on to Wall Street or wherever. Today, Teach for America (TFA) sends about 4,100 graduates, many from Ivy League colleges, into inner-city schools every year. Some (about 8 percent) cant cope with it, but most (about 61 percent) stay in teaching after their d
42、emanding two-year tours. Two thirds of TFAs 17,000 graduates are still involved in education and have become the core of a reform movement that is having real impact. The founders of KIPP, Mike Feinberg and Dave Levin, are TFA products. So is the most aggressive reformer in education today, Michelle
43、 Rhee, the education chancellor of the District of Columbia, who is trying to loosen the hold of the teachers union on a school system that for years had the highest costs and worst results in the nation. K It is difficult to remove the educational establishment. In New Orleans, a hurricane was requ
44、ired: since Katrina, New Orleans has made more educational progress than any other city, largely because the public-school system was wiped out. Using nonunion charter schools, New Orleans has been able to measure teacher performance in ways that the teachers unions have long and bitterly resisted.
45、Under a new Louisiana law, New Orleans can track which schools produce the best teachers, forcing long-needed changes in school curricula. 37 In terms of test scores, American students used to be at the top of the world. 38 There was a large achievement gap in America between different classes and r
46、aces. 39 One recent review found that most schoolteachers didnt perform well in their school life. 40 Unfortunately, the neediest students often receive the poorest teaching. 41 The new teaching methods, like open classrooms the professional educators tried, were all in vain. 42 According to a resea
47、rch in recent years, teacher quality is regarded as the dominant factor for students performance. 43 The percentage of dismissed teacher was so low in many states due to the power of teachers unions. 44 Only a few people are qualified for the position of the charter school teachers teaching in inner
48、-city. 45 An education chancellor is trying to lessen the influence of the teachers union on a school system. 46 The public-school system of an American city was wiped out after a hurricane so that the city made outstanding educational progress. Section C 46 That a lack of wealth all too often trans
49、lates into poor health may seem painfully obvious. But now a review of health inequalities in England reveals that such differences dont just disadvantage the least well-off. The review also suggests some strategies to tackle the inequalities. These remedies should apply the world over, including in the US, where health and wealth inequalities can be especially obvious. Commissioned by the UK government, the review was headed by Michael Marmot of University College London, who mos
