1、大学英语六级（ 2013年 12月考试改革适用）模拟试卷 249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 “Successful People does not only Have Talents but also Some Other Things“. You can cite examples to illustrate your point. You should write at least 150 wor
2、ds but no more than 200 words. Write your essay on Answer Sheet 1. Section A （ A） Britain. （ B） America. （ C） Canada. （ D） China. （ A） 12. （ B） 13. （ C） 14. （ D） 15. （ A） Because they had little education. （ B） Because they were looked down upon in the society. （ C） Because they had no duty to rear
3、the family. （ D） Because they spent too much time taking care of the family. （ A） They were financially dependent on their parents. （ B） They were financially dependent on their husbands. （ C） They could not go out to work as men did. （ D） They often had to marry men they didnt like. （ A） The previo
4、us one sold groceries and it stayed open longer. （ B） The previous one sold all kinds of things and it stayed open longer. （ C） The womans sells groceries and it stays open longer. （ D） The womans sells all kinds of things and it stays open longer. （ A） She broadcast the opening news on television.
5、（ B） She broadcast the opening news on the Internet. （ C） She did a small survey. （ D） She did a promotion. （ A） She sells papers and cigarettes to local factory workers. （ B） She sells fresh milk, frozen fish, cooked meat to housewives. （ C） She sells sandwiches. （ D） She sells sweets to schoolchil
6、dren. （ A） She felt rather tired and bored. （ B） She felt rather tired but never bored. （ C） She felt rather energetic. （ D） She felt neither tired nor bored. 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 trave
7、l books. （ A） An ambitious 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 （ B） Because writers are out of date.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 da
8、te of publication is 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
9、 time on leisure. （ 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
10、leisure. （ D） Work more and less leisure. Section C （ A） It receives more nutrients than it can absorb. （ B） It becomes oversaturated with water. （ C） It loses the ability to support insect life. （ D） It loses nutrients that aren t replaced. （ A） Too many animals eating the plants in one small area.
11、 （ B） Planting too much vegetation in one small area. （ C） Too many people building houses in one small area. （ D） Bringing together the wrong kinds of animals and plants. （ A） The animals overfertilize the soil. （ B） Dead plant roots cant hold the soil together. （ C） The wrong types of plants are l
12、eft standing. （ D） There is a buildup of plant and animal matter. （ A） It can cause flooding （ B） It can carry diseases that affect animals. （ C） It can introduce too much salt into the soil. （ D） It can divert water from important crops. （ A） Teach their young how to swim. （ B） Mate and lay eggs. （
13、 C） Hide from predators. （ D） Eat different kinds of fish. （ A） Its geography is similar to Brazil s. （ B） Their instinct leads them to the place they were hatched. （ C） There are other species of turtles located there. （ D） Its climate is milder than Brazil s. （ A） To discover how long their ancest
14、ors lived. （ B） To analyze how their appearance has evolved. （ C） To find out how a disease has spread （ D） To determine how closely groups of turtles are related. （ A） To demonstrate George Washingtons survival skills. （ B） To show that some stories about famous people may be historically inaccurat
15、e. （ C） To describe a historical event that was portrayed in a painting. （ D） To tell a story that George Washington told about himself. （ A） She led her tribe to victory against the colonists （ B） She was considered to be extremelybeautiful. （ C） She created popular American Indian art. （ D） She he
16、lped establish peace between her tribe and the colonists （ A） They have only recently been discovered. （ B） They were painted by the colonists who knew her. （ C） Most of them portray her as a child. （ D） They might not reflect the fact of her life. Section A 26 It was music to my ears to hear that t
17、he Government s chief adviser on【 C1】_, Susan Jebb, wants parents to【 C2】 _fruit juices at the table and return to the old days when children drank water or milk. There is no doubt that fruit juices, as well as fizzy colas and other soft drinks, are a major contributor to the emerging crisis of【 C3】
18、 _weight in our children and teenagers. Most fruit juice drinks are【 C4】 _with sugar syrup, often derived not from fruit, but corn. The true【 C5】 _here, though, is not sugar but human greed. Sugar is not a poison, as some sug gest, and is not even【 C6】 _: we just enjoy it. Eating too much sugar is a
19、 cause of tooth decay. It also【 C7】 _to the development of a fatty liver which can lead to irreparable liver diseases. The main【 C8】 _here is the weight gain, but sugar is not the only culprit; excess fat in your diet can make you fat. My point is that taking too much in, whether its sugar or fat, i
20、s going to leave you with more body fat. However, a【 C9】 _of the energy intake for most growing youngsters is refined sugar in one shape or form. If we are to educate the public how best to【 C10】_obesity, then a cut in fruit juices and sugar-containing drinks is a good way to start. It may cut calor
21、ie intake near enough in half. Think twice before you pour that glass of juice. A) embrace B) proportion C) sensible D) attachment E) amount F) contributes G) obesity H) issue I) vast J) tackle K) addictive L) excess M) loaded N) ban O) villain 27 【 C1】 28 【 C2】 29 【 C3】 30 【 C4】 31 【 C5】 32 【 C6】 3
22、3 【 C7】 34 【 C8】 35 【 C9】 36 【 C10】 Section B 36 A) The Supreme Court unambiguously ruled Wednesday that privacy rights are not sacrificed to 21st century technology, saying unanimously that police generally must obtain a warrant before searching the cell phone of someone they arrest. B) Modern cell
23、 phones “hold for many Americans the privacies of life,“ Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote for a court united behind the opinions expansive language. “The fact that technology now allows an individual to carry such information in his hand does not make the information any less worthy of the pr
24、otection for which the Founders fought.“ Roberts said that in most cases when police seize a cell phone from a suspect, the answer is simple: “Get a warrant.“ C) The ruling has no impact on National Security Agency data collection programs revealed in the past year or law enforcement use of aggregat
25、ed digital information. But lawyers involved in those issues said the emphatic declarations signaled the justices interest in the dangers of government overreach. D) During oral arguments, the justices seemed divided over the issue. But they united behind soaring language from Roberts about privacy
26、concerns in the digital era in which 90 percent of Americans carry cell phones containing sensitive information. “The term cell phone is itself misleading shorthand; many of these devices are in fact minicomputers that also happen to have the capacity to be used as a telephone,“ Roberts wrote. “They
27、 could just as easily be called cameras, video players, calendars, tape recorders, libraries, diaries, albums, televisions, maps, or newspapers.“ E) The court is often criticized for being behind the times in considering technological advances. But Robertss opinion was filled with unpleasant facts “
28、the average smart phone user has installed 33 applications, which together can form a revealing montage(蒙太奇 ) of the users life“ and concerns about modern innovations such as cloud computing “cell phone users often may not know whether particular information is stored on the device or in the cloud.“
29、 F) Jeffrey Fisher, a Stanford law professor who argued on behalf of a defendant who said the search violated his constitutional right to be free of unreasonable searches, praised the ruling. “The decision brings the Fourth Amendment into the digital age,“ Fisher said. “The core of the decision is t
30、hat digital information is different. It triggers privacy concerns far more profound than ordinary physical objects.“ G) Ellen Canale, a Justice Department spokeswoman, said the department will work with law enforcement to ensure that the courts decision is implemented. “Our commitment to vigorously
31、 enforcing the criminal laws and protecting the public while respecting the privacy interests protected by the Fourth Amendment is unwavering,“ she said. H) In general, warrants are required for searches, but the courts precedents have said that a persons privacy expectations shrink considerably aft
32、er an arrest. Police may protect themselves and others by searching the arrestee for weapons or securing evidence that might be destroyed. I) Roberts said he “cannot deny“ that the decision will have an impact on the ability of law enforcement to combat crime. “Privacy comes at a cost,“ he wrote. Bu
33、t he said police can use their own technology to ensure that the information on cell phones that might contain critical evidence is not erased or lost. He also said there could be “case-specific“ exceptions to the warrant rule. The court in the past had approved searching many objects found on a sus
34、pect, Roberts noted, including a cigarette pack found to have contained drugs. But allowing them to search a cell phone is very close to ransacking a person s home, he said. J) “Indeed, a cell phone search would typically expose to the government far more than the most exhaustive search of a house:
35、A phone not only contains in digital form many sensitive records previously found in the home; it also contains a broad array of private information never found in a home in any form,“ he said. For instance: “Past location information is a standard feature on many smart phones and can reconstruct so
36、meone s specific movements down to the minute, not only around town but also within a particular building.“ K) He said technology also makes it easier for law enforcement to secure approval from a judge that a search is justified. Canale said the Justice Department would work on that “We will make u
37、se of whatever technology is available to preserve evidence on cell phones while seeking a warrant, and we will assist our agents in determining when urgent circumstances or another applicable exception to the warrant requirement will permit them to search the phone immediately without a warrant,“ s
38、he said. L) Justice Samuel A. Alito put in an opinion approving the judgment, despite reservations about what it might mean for law enforcement. He also urged legislatures and Congress to get involved. “Many forms of modern technology are making it easier and easier for both government and private e
39、ntities to collect a great amount of information about the lives of ordinary Americans, and at the same time, many ordinary Americans are choosing to make public much information that was seldom revealed to outsiders just a few decades ago,“ Alito wrote. “In light of these developments, it would be
40、very unfortunate if privacy protection in the 21st century were left primarily to the federal courts using the blunt instrument of the Fourth Amendment.“ M) The court ruling came in the consideration of two cases in which lower courts arrived at different conclusions. N) One involved Brima Wurie, wh
41、o was picked up in Boston on suspicion of selling cocaine in 2007. While he was in police custody, his phone kept receiving calls from a number identified as “my house.“ Using the telephone number and a reverse directory, police located his address, obtained a warrant to search his home, and found c
42、ocaine, marijuana(大麻 )and a weapon. In a 2-to-1 decision, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals threw out the evidence against Wurie. The majority support a rule that said warrantless cell phone data searches are “categorically unlawful, given the “governments failure to demonstrate that they are eve
43、r necessary to promote officer safety or prevent the destruction of evidence.“ O) A case from California went the other way. David Leon Riley was pulled over in 2009 by a San Diego police officer for an expired car registration. Police quickly discovered that Rileys drivers license was suspended and
44、 later found guns under the cars hood. Police also examined his smart phone and found language that led them to believe Riley had gang connections. A photograph on the phone linked him to a car that police said had been used to flee a shooting. Riley was accused of murder and other charges, convicte
45、d, and sentenced to more than 15 years in prison. A California court approved the officers actions, and similar conflicting decisions have been recorded across the country. 37 A case in which the court support the officers actions of searching the cellphone of the suspect without a warrant. 38 Not o
46、nly the court but also the legislatures and Congress should participate into the protection of privacy concerning cell phones. 39 New technologies can help to preserve evidence on a cell phone and the Justice Department should specify the circumstances in which immediate searches are necessary. 40 R
47、oberts words about the multi-functions of the cellphone made a big influence on the justices opinions in the oral argument. 41 The Justice Department will cooperate with the law enforcement to ensure the implement of the new decision of the Supreme Court. 42 A cell phone search will reveal more pers
48、onal information including the owners recent movements, than the search of a house. 43 A Stanford law professor praised the decision of the Supreme Court and said the digital information has a more profound influence on the privacy than physical objects. 44 A case in which the warrantless cell phone
49、 data searches are not favored by the majority. 45 Though warrants are needed when there is a search but when it comes to the arrest people s privacy is often violated due to the safety of the police and securing the evidence. 46 The Supreme Court ruled that a warrant is needed before the police search the cell phone of the arrested people. Section C 46 By education, I mean the influence of the environment upon the individual to produce a permanent change in the habits of behaviour, of thought and of a
