1、大学英语六级（ 2013年 12月考试改革适用）模拟试卷 245及答案与解析 一、 Part I Writing 1 Directions： For this part,you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay commenting on the remark“Idle Young， Needy Old ”You can cite examples to illustrate your point You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words Write your e
2、ssay on Answer Sheet 1 Section A （ A） To test how responsive dolphins are to various signals. （ B） To examine how long it takes dolphins to acquire a skill. （ C） To find out if the female dolphin is cleverer than the male one. （ D） To see if dolphins can learn to communicate with each other. （ A） Sw
3、im straight into the same tank. （ B） Produce the appropriate sound. （ C） Raise their heads above the water. （ D） Press the right-hand lever first. （ A） Only one dolphin was able to see the light. （ B） The male dolphin received more rewards. （ C） The lever was beyond the dolphins reach. （ D） Both dol
4、phins were put in the same tank. （ A） Both of them press the lever at the same time. （ B） One of them presses the right-hand lever first. （ C） One of them presses the levers in the right order. （ D） Both of them have to press the levers correctly. （ A） In a resort town. （ B） In a lecture room. （ C）
5、On a cattle farm. （ D） In a botanical garden. （ A） It has kept many traditions from Victorian times. （ B） It remains very attractive with its mineral waters. （ C） It is an ideal place for people to retire to. （ D） It is at the centre of the fashion industry. （ A） It was named after a land owner in t
6、he old days. （ B） It will be used as a centre for athletic training. （ C） It is located in the eastern part of Harrogate. （ D） It is protected as parkland by a special law. （ A） The beautiful flowers. （ B） The refreshing air. （ C） The mineral waters. （ D） The vast grassland. Section B （ A） The weath
7、er will be fine. （ B） Rain will probably come. （ C） There will be a fog. （ D） Fine weather will continue. （ A） When there is a heavy rain. （ B） When fine weather continues. （ C） When a fog appears in the morning. （ D） When wet weather is coming. （ A） The following day will be rainy. （ B） Fine weathe
8、r will continue. （ C） Rainy weather may approach. （ D） The rain will stop at once. （ A） Children. （ B） Family. （ C） Parents. （ D） ASPCA. （ A） Because it is powerful and aggressive. （ B） Because its a companion and protection breed. （ C） Because most people are afraid of it. （ D） Because it is very s
9、mall and easy to train. （ A） It need to be walked daily. （ B） It is an ideal hunting dog. （ C） It can exercise at home. （ D） Its hard to handle for children. （ A） The importance of dogs in our daily life. （ B） Ways to train various kinds of dogs. （ C） Methods to collect information about dogs. （ D）
10、How to choose an ideal dog for the family. Section C （ A） Protecting the sea fishes. （ B） Harming the Earth. （ C） Harming the ocean. （ D） Recovering the ocean. （ A） Oxygen reduction. （ B） Carbon dioxide emission. （ C） Extinction of marine life. （ D） Survival of the mankind. （ A） 50 years. （ B） 3 yea
11、rs. （ C） 13 years. （ D） 5 years. （ A） To stabilize world temperature. （ B） To secure the health of life system. （ C） To stop the marine creatures from dying. （ D） To restore the impact of climate changes. （ A） She is a cosmetic dentist in beauty business. （ B） She works in beauty business for over 3
12、0 years. （ C） She conducts researches in cosmetics products. （ D） She makes comment on the beauty industry. （ A） Quality is an important part of the price of cosmetic products. （ B） Quality is not a key factor for the price of cosmetic products. （ C） Ingredients does not relate to the quality of the
13、 cosmetic products. （ D） Ingredient plays an important role in the quality of cosmetic products. （ A） Sales increases in global markets. （ B） Consumers increase in global markets. （ C） More famous brands make more profits. （ D） People bought more expensive makeup. （ A） They want to protest against B
14、ritish Council. （ B） They want to put a diamond on the Queens crown. （ C） They want the UK Government returns a diamond. （ D） They want to return the Mountain of Light diamond. （ A） It enables UK institutions to return cultural objects. （ B） It gives Queen Elizabeth the power to collect diamonds. （
15、C） Cases in International Court of Justice are based on it. （ D） It recognizes the great British achievement in India. （ A） Dead. （ B） Unlucky. （ C） Powerful. （ D） Victorious. Section A 26 Accustomed though we are to speaking of the films made before 1927 as “silent“, the film has never been, in the
16、 full sense of the word, silent From the very beginning, music was regarded as an【 C1】 _accompaniment; when the Lumiere films were shown at the first public film exhibition in the United States in February 1896, they were【 C2】 _by piano improvisations on popular tunes. At first, the music played【 C3
17、】 _no special relationship to the films; an accompaniment of any kind was【 C4】 _. Within a very short time, however, the incongruity (不协调 ) of playing lively music to a【 C5】 _ film became apparent, and film pianists began to take some care in【 C6】 _ their pieces to the mood of the film. As movie the
18、aters grew in number and importance, a violinist, and perhaps a cellist, would be added to the pianist in certain【 C7】 _, and in the larger movie theaters small orchestras were formed. For a number of years the selection of music for each film program【 C8】 _entirely in the hands of the conductor or
19、leader of the orchestra, and very often the principal【 C9】 _for holding such a position was not skill or taste so much as the ownership of a large personal library of musical pieces. Since the conductor seldom saw the films until the night before they were to be shown (if indeed, the conductor was l
20、ucky enough to see them then), the musical arrangement was 【 C10】 _improvised in the greatest hurry. A) sufficient I) bore B) incredible J) qualification C) accompanied K) solemn D) comparatively L) indispensable E) matching M) severe F) rested N) according G) normally O) cases H) occasions 27 【 C1】
21、 28 【 C2】 29 【 C3】 30 【 C4】 31 【 C5】 32 【 C6】 33 【 C7】 34 【 C8】 35 【 C9】 36 【 C10】 Section B 36 The Future Is Another Country A A couple of months or so after becoming Britains prime minister, David Cameron wanted a few tips from somebody who could tell him how it felt to be responsible for, and acc
22、ountable to, many millions of people: people who expected things from him, even though in most cases he would never shake their hands. B He turned not to a fellow head of government but to. Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and boss of Facebook, the phenomenally successful social network. (It announced t
23、hat it had 500m users) In a well-publicised online video chat this month, the two men swapped ideas about ways for networks to help governments. Was this just a political leader seeking a spot of help from the private sectoror was it more like diplomacy, a comparison of notes between the masters of
24、two great nations? C In some ways, it might seem absurd to call Facebook a state and Mr. Zuckerberg its governor. It has no land to defend; no police to enforce law and order; it does not have subjects, bound by a clear cluster of rights, obligations and cultural signals. Compared with citizenship o
25、f a country, membership is easy to acquire and give up. Nor do Facebooks boss and his executives depend directly on the consent of an “electorate (选民 )“ that can unseat them. Technically, the only people they report to are the shareholders. D But many web-watchers do detect country-like features in
26、Facebook. “It is a device that allows people to get together and control their own destiny, much like a nation-state,“ says David Post, a law professor at Temple University. If that sounds like a flattering description of Facebooks “groups“ (often rallying people with unusual habits and hatred), the
27、n it is worth recalling a classic definition of the modern nation-state. As Benedict Anderson, a political scientist, put it, such polities are “imagined communities“ in which each person feels a bond with millions of anonymous fellow-citizens. In centuries past, people looked up to kings or bishops
28、; but in an age of mass literacy and printing in non-official languages, so Mr. Anderson argued, horizontal ties matter more. E So if newspapers and shabby paperbacks can create new social and political units, for which people toil and die, perhaps the latest forms of communication can do likewise.
29、In his 2006 book “Code: Version 2.0“, a legal scholar, Lawrence Lessig noted that online communities were transcending the limits of conventional states-and predicted that members of these communities would find it “difficult to stand neutral in this international space“. F To many, that forecast st
30、ill smacks (带 味道 ) of cyber-fantasy. But the rise of Facebook at least gives pause for thought. If it were a physical nation, it would now be the third most populous on earth. Mr. Zuckerberg is confident there will be a billion users in a few years. Facebook is unprecedented not only in its scale bu
31、t also in its ability to blur boundaries between the real and virtual worlds. A few years ago, online communities evoked fantasy games played by small, strange groups. But as technology made possible large virtual arenas like Second Life or World of Warcraft, an online game with millions of players,
32、 so the overlap between cyberspace and real human existence began to grow. G From the users viewpoint, Facebook can feel a bit like a liberal polity: a space in which people air opinions, rally support and right wrongs. What about the view from the top? Is Facebook a place that needs governing, just
33、 as a country does? Brad Burnham of Union Square Ventures, a venture-capital firm, has argued that the answer is yes. In the spirit of liberal politics, he thinks the job of Facebooks managers is to create a space in which citizens and firms feel comfortable investing their time and money to create
34、things. H Facebook has certainly tried to guide the development of its online economy, almost in the way that governments seek to influence economic activity in the real world, through fiscal (财政的 ) and monetary policy. Earlier this year the firm said it wanted applications running on its platform t
35、o accept its virtual currency, known as Facebook Credits. It argued that this was in the interests of Facebook users, who would no longer have to use different online currencies for different applications. But this made some developers angry, who resent the fact that Facebook takes a 30% cut on ever
36、y transaction involving credits. I Like any ruling elite that knows it relies on the consent from the ruled, Facebook seeks advice from its members on questions of governance. It allows users to vote on proposed changes to its terms of service, and it holds online forums to collect views on future p
37、olicies. And like any well-intentioned politicians, Facebook makes blunders: its members were angry earlier this year by changes to its policy that made public some previously private information. If Mr. Zuckerberg achieves his goal of creating the worlds favourite “social utility“, he may need to g
38、ive users a more formal saya bit like a constitution. J Experience shows that networks which neglect governance pay a price. Take MySpace, which was once much bigger than Facebook: its growth stalled a couple of years ago when its managers let the site become too disorderly. There is a thin line, it
39、 seems, between the freedom that spurs creativity and a free-for-all. K As Facebooks masters present it, their mission is just to make the world more open and connected and bring closer the “global village“ predicted in the 1960s by Marshall McLuhan, a futurologist they love. Their claim to be accel
40、erators has some force. Facebooks success “raises a lot of issues that we thought were a generation away,“ says Edward Castronova, a professor at Indiana University. One of them is how much impact virtual economies and currencies will have on real world ones. L Facebook may also influence how govern
41、ments supply services, and compete to provide them. For instance, the firm allows members to use their Facebook profiles to log into other sites around the web, creating a sort of passport. A similar facility could help people on the move retain access to government services. And then there is the q
42、uestion of how social networks will change politics. Clearly, they help to stimulate discussion, and they let governments search and test proposals. When Messrs Cameron and Zuckerberg conferred, the main topic was how to get new ideas for cutting public spending. M Like many diplomatic relationships
43、, theirs was not constant. Days after the chat, Facebook was criticised by the British government for allowing tributes to a murderer to be posted. The firm refused to remove the offending page, which was later taken down by its creator. “Facebook is a place where people can express their views and
44、discuss things in an open way, as they can and do in many other places,“ it said. Mr. Zuckerberg may not have any territory, but he was determined to stand his ground. 37 Facebooks boss and executives only report to its shareholders. 38 The implementation of Facebooks virtual currency causes controv
45、ersy. 39 The mission of Facebooks managers is to offer a worthwhile space to users. 40 The “imagined communities“ tightened relations among people with the same level. 41 A famous network ceased to grow a few years ago because of being too disorderly. 42 Facebook is described like this: It allows pe
46、ople to rally together and control their own destiny. 43 Facebook is an unprecedented online community because it blurs the real and virtual worlds. 44 The founder of Facebook and one of his friends talk about how networks can help governments during their video chat. 45 Knowing the importance of th
47、e consent from the ruled, Facebook allows its users to express their views in online forums. 46 The mission of Facebooks masters is to make the world more open and connected so as to accelerate the prediction of global village. Section C 46 Every other week it seems a new study comes out that adds t
48、o our already-formidable store of parental worries. But even by those escalating standards, the report issued last week by the federal governments National Center for Health Statistics contained a jaw-dropper: the parents of nearly one of every five boys in the United States were concerned enough ab
49、out what they saw as their sons emotional or behavioral problems that they consulted a doctor or a health-care professional. By comparison, about one out of 10 parents of girls reported these kinds of problems. The report confirms what many of us have been observing for some time now: that lots of school-age boys are struggling. And, parents are intensely worried about them. What is bothering our sons? Some experts suggest we are witnessing an epidemic of Attention-deficit h
