1、大学英语六级（ 2013年 12月考试改革适用）模拟试卷 252及答案与解析 一、 Part I Writing 1 For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay on the topic “Stress“. You can either analyze its causes or share some means to reduce it. Examples can be cited to illustrate your point. You should write at least 150 words but no
2、 more than 200 words. Write your essay on Answer Sheet 1. Section A （ A） More than a year. （ B） Two months. （ C） More than two weeks. （ D） One or two days. （ A） The man. （ B） The woman. （ C） Bob. （ D） Noel. （ A） One can see the sea through its windows. （ B） It is quite an old cottage. （ C） The cotta
3、ge is far from the small farm. （ D） The cottage is quite narrow. （ A） He is a friend of the woman. （ B） He is the woman s ex-husband. （ C） It is a lovely dog. （ D） He is a tenant. （ A） Mother and son. （ B） Teacher and student. （ C） Landlady and tenant. （ D） Sister and brother. （ A） The boy s parents
4、. （ B） The boy s summer holiday. （ C） The boy s study. （ D） An illness. （ A） They are very good parents. （ B） They quarrel a lot. （ C） They have only one child. （ D） They love each other very much. （ A） He will spend it in England. （ B） He will study history. （ C） He is going to live in the country.
5、 （ D） He is going to learn French. Section B （ A） A theatre. （ B） A cinema. （ C） A barbecue restaurant. （ D） A drive-in restaurant. （ A） French fries, hamburgers, and sparkling water. （ B） Italy fries, hamburgers, and sodas. （ C） French fries, hamburgers, and sodas. （ D） Italy fries, cakes, and coca
6、 cola. （ A） 4 cents. （ B） 15 cents. （ C） 19 cents. （ D） 25 cents. （ A） How to order a meal at McDonald. （ B） The history of restaurant. （ C） Two brothers-Mac and Dick McDonald. （ D） The development of McDonald. （ A） Colombia. （ B） Peru. （ C） Bolivia. （ D） Vietnam. （ A） Pay farmers to plant other cro
7、ps. （ B） Forbid farmers to grow coca. （ C） Punish those farmers who run drug business. （ D） Tell farmers the harmful effect. （ A） Because the U.S. government encourages them to do so. （ B） Because they are driven by others. （ C） Coca is popular in Colombia. （ D） Because they can make more money from
8、 growing coca. Section C （ A） Their inability to circulate water. （ B） Their increased sensitivity to heat. （ C） Low reproductive rates. （ D） Heavy pollution in the atmosphere. （ A） It is damaged by extremely dry weather. （ B） It loses water to stronger trees. （ C） Insects destroy the tree s bark. （
9、 D） Certain beetles introduce a fungus to the tree. （ A） By controlling the carriers of the disease. （ B） By growing a stronger kind of the elm. （ C） By watering infected elm trees. （ D） By cutting down all infected elms. （ A） They painted in their spare time. （ B） They lacked formal art training. （
10、 C） They used a more traditional approach to color. （ D） They followed rules established by art schools. （ A） They lack bright colors. （ B） They are realistic depictions. （ C） They follow ancient traditions. （ D） They are inferior to French naive paintings. （ A） Their works were unsigned. （ B） Many
11、of their works were destroyed. （ C） They never stayed in one place for a long time. （ D） They worked for only a few years. （ A） Why American industries grew rapidly in the nineteenth century. （ B） How advances in transportation helped American cities develop. （ C） Transportation between the cities o
12、f the United States. （ D） Great American inventors of the nineteenth century. （ A） It was no longer possible to keep horses. （ B） It was difficult to find jobs. （ C） They could no longer walk to work. （ D） They had to pay more for their housing. （ A） They could be controlled independently. （ B） They
13、 were fire resistant. （ C） They could keep operating for a longer period of time. （ D） They offered more room for passengers. （ A） It made the subways much quieter. （ B） It brought electric light to the tunnels. （ C） It allowed passengers to breathe cleaner air in the tunnels. （ D） It allowed subway
14、s to be repaired inexpensively. Section A 26 Although interior design has existed since the beginning of architecture, its development into a【 C1】 _field is really quite recent. Interior designers have become important partly because of the many functions that might be【 C2】 _in a single large buildi
15、ng. The importance of interior design becomes【 C3】 _when we realize how much time we spend surrounded by four walls. Whenever we need to be indoors, we want our surroundings to be as attractive and comfortable as possible. We also【 C4】 _each place to be appropriate to its use. You would be shocked i
16、f the inside of your bedroom were【 C5】 _changed to look like the inside of a restaurant. And you wouldn t feel right in a business office that has the appearance of a school. It soon becomes clear that the interior designer s most important basic【 C6】 _is the function of the particular space. For ex
17、ample, a theatre with poor sight lines, poor sound-shaping qualities, and too few entries and exits will not work for its purpose, no matter how beautifully it might be【 C7】 _. Nevertheless, for any kind of space, the designer has to make many of the same kind of【 C8】 _. He or she must【 C9】 _the sha
18、pes, lighting and decoration of everything from ceiling to floor. In addition, the designer must usually select furniture or design built-in furniture according to the functions that need to be【 C10】 _. A) obscure B) specialized C) attention D) expect E) concern F) specially G) evident H) contained
19、I) decorated J) composed K) decisions L) suddenly M) served N) balance O) coordinate 27 【 C1】 28 【 C2】 29 【 C3】 30 【 C4】 31 【 C5】 32 【 C6】 33 【 C7】 34 【 C8】 35 【 C9】 36 【 C10】 Section B 36 Parents Homework: Find Perfect Teachers for Kids A) Tomi Hall did what she could to lobby for the best teachers
20、 for her two children, making her case this spring in letters to the principal. Then all she could do was waiting for news of their classroom assignments and its been torturing. The Aurora mom knows her efforts carry no guarantees. One year her son didnt get the teacher Hall had hoped for, and he st
21、ruggled for months with one whose relaxed style came across to him as uncaring. “Granted, I know it s just kindergarten,“ said Hall, 39. “But. a teacher can make or break you.“ B) In the next few weeks, many families will rip open notification letters or go to school to see class lists posted on the
22、 front door. For parents accustomed to directing nearly every aspect of their child s early learning it can be difficult to have little voice in teacher selection a decision they view as critical. Some spend hours crafting the perfect letter or meet with the principal to make an argument. For their
23、childs early learning, parents regard that teacher is critical. C) Principals, meanwhile, struggle to create balanced classrooms while juggling(同时应付 ) individual requests. They say they want input but find it increasingly necessary to discourage parents from asking for a specific teacher. Administra
24、tors dont want the selection process to be a popularity contest in part because what makes a teacher popular may have nothing to do with a particular child s educational needs. D) “Im bright enough to realize parents talk at soccer fields and baseball fields, but you have to realize your experience
25、with Teacher A may be very different than someone elses Teacher A,“ said Scott Meek, the new principal at Northbrook Junior High School who is making classroom assignments this summer for 600 students with the help of an office display board. He asks parents to focus their input on the student and h
26、is or her learning style and trust the school to make the right match. E) Some students also recognize that certain teachers bring out the best in them. “I need one of those strict kinds of teachers,“ said Hall s daughter Tori, 12, who is entering 7th grade. “When I get a not-so-strict teacher, I th
27、ink they dont really care about me. I really dont want a bad teacher. Ill get lower grades.“ F) When Chaya Fish, 30, of West Rogers Park taught at a private school in New York, she said, it was obvious who the “in“ teachers were. She said she automatically joined them after the principal s son lande
28、d in her classroom. “It was ridiculous,“ said Fish. “The other teacher was probably better than me. It was how you dressed, how you talked“ that often determined parental favor. G) Teachers said the most vocal parents often get their way so that all parties involved can avoid a difficult school year
29、. But educators warn that parents who get what they wish for may be sorry afterward. “A lot of times when people orchestrate(精心安排 ) who they think their child is best suited for, they find they made a mistake,“ said Mark Friedman, superintendent(督学 ) for Libertyville Elementary School District 70. “
30、I have many parents say later, I dont know why I did this. It isnt working out this year.“ Friedman said he assures parents their comments will be considered but never guarantees a specific teacher. In fact, he tells them that if they do request a teacher and later regret that choice, “you have no o
31、ne to blame but yourself.“ H) Some parents said theyve learned their lesson about trying to guess which teacher would be best. Jamie Thompson said she was initially concerned when her daughter was assigned to a strict lst-grade teacher. She was aware other parents had lobbied for a different person,
32、 who had a more casual style. “At the end, it turned out that the other class was asking, Why isnt my child learning that?“ said Thompson, 36, of Arlington Heights. “That s why I don t want to interfere too much.“ I) Yet parents have different reasons for requesting classes, and some have nothing to
33、 do with the teacher, said Michelle Van Every, 36, of Deerfield. She and other mothers once requested that their children not be placed in a classroom with a specific boy not because of him, but to avoid his mother, who had created problems in the past, she said. “We didn t want to cross paths with
34、her,“ said Van Every, who added that the school complied with their request. “We didnt want to have to volunteer with her at a class party.“ J) Each district follows its own procedure for teacher selection. Some begin as early as April or May, officials said. Many ask parents to complete a form abou
35、t their childs strengths and weaknesses. Typically, teachers have some say in the process by deciding early on which students should be separated or kept together, on the basis of academics, personalities and learning styles. The principal draws up the final class lists, often after meeting with par
36、ents or reviewing special requests, officials said. K) Many school districts wait until the last minute to announce class assignments, usually about two weeks before the start-up of school. That s because they have come to expect a flood of phone calls within hours from parents who beg or demand to
37、switch teachers. L) Other schools handle it differently. At Sawyer Elementary School on Chicagos Southwest Side, the fall class assignments are handed out with the last report card the previous spring, said teacher Maureen “Moe“ Forte. Forte said she is aware of colleagues and members of the Local S
38、chool Council who have asked that their children be moved from one class into another. “Its not fair,“ Forte said. “I was very upset that one of the LSC parents moved her daughter to my classroom.The parent just felt my personality fit better with her child. And it s not a personality contest.“ M) D
39、enita Ricci of Lake Villa said she knows parents who request certain classes but tries to stay out of the process. Her son, Mason Wubs, 12, hopes to be placed in the same class as his best friend, easing the transition to 7th grade at a new school. “I trust the schools judgment,“ she said, though sh
40、e secretly hopes Mason will share a class with his friend. “I think they need to learn to deal with people who are different from them, just like an employer.“ 37 Forte said, teaching at school is not a personality contest. 38 Teachers will decide early in the process of students separation or keepi
41、ng together. 39 Denita Ricci tries to stay out of the process when her son hoped to stay in the same class with his best friend. 40 Chaya Fish said, sometimes the way to decide the popular teacher was ridiculous. 41 Michelle Van Every said, some parents reasons for requesting classes have nothing to
42、 do with the teachers. 42 Many school districts dont announce class assignments until the last minute. 43 Scott Meek said, different people have different ideas about who is the best teacher. 44 Jamie Thompson was initially concerned with her daughter, but she didnt want to interfere too much. 45 Ad
43、ministrators say, what makes a teacher popular may have nothing to do with a particular childs educational needs. 46 Mark Friedman said, many times people will make mistakes in choosing teacher and class for their children. Section C 46 As an immigrant to North American, you will need to ensure that
44、 employers and organizations such as colleges and universities properly recognize your international credentials. These may be trade certificates, but also educational qualifications such as degrees or diplomas, that you have completed or partially-completed. It is common for hiring personnel to hav
45、e little or no training in evaluating an academic background earned outside of North America. But at the same time, employers see formal education as very important when hiring. Education is a hiring requirement for 60% of employment opportunities, but 40% of human resources staff say that if they d
46、o not know a lot about the value of documents attained elsewhere, they will not recognize them. Research has shown that sometimes immigrants start with a lower salary level than people who have completed their training in North America. You may want to apply for employment opportunities with compani
47、es whose staff understands your situation or more importantly, who know where to send you to get your North American credentials. If you need to complete your training in North America, apprenticeships leading to skilled trades are in high demand. Apprenticeship training is a hands-on program where
48、about 10% is in a classroom setting at community colleges, and 90% of the training is on-the-job. The training involves working for an employer and earning income during the training period. Sometimes there is a limit of 5 years for training. You may be able to use this training toward college or un
49、iversity credits or education. There is a good potential for long-term job security after completion of apprenticeship training. If you earned your papers outside of North America, you will need to get them translated if you want to work or study. It is important for you that your education is assessed by an accredited assessment service when you are applying for jobs, and particularly if the job posting has an education requirement. As well, it is recommended that you include a copy o
