1、大学英语六级（ 2013年 12月考试改革适用）模拟试卷 254及答案与解析 一、 Part I Writing 1 For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on the topic “Which One Is More Important in Job Hunting, Ability or Degree?“ You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words which should cover:1) describing th
2、e meaning of cartoon briefly;2) stating its main idea;3) giving your comment. Section A （ A） Campus. （ B） Sarah s home. （ C） Off campus apartment. （ D） A hotel on the west of the town. （ A） She would let them move out. （ B） She would let them repair the dishwasher again. （ C） She will sue them. （ D）
3、 She will let them pay the full rent check. （ A） At 8:00 tomorrow night. （ B） At 7:30 tomorrow night. （ C） At 8:00 tonight. （ D） At 7:30 tonight. （ A） Sam. （ B） Ms. Connors. （ C） Sarah. （ D） Paula. （ A） In a crowded classroom. （ B） In an empty room. （ C） In a busy street corner. （ D） In a shopping c
4、entre. （ A） The mans professor. （ B） The man s roommate. （ C） The woman s boyfriend. （ D） A neighbour. （ A） He is too sloppy. （ B） He borrows Johns things. （ C） He brings guests over to the apartment. （ D） He doesn t use the kitchen enough. （ A） He should move out of the apartment. （ B） He should ki
5、ck John out of the department. （ C） He should not bring anyone to the apartment anymore. （ D） He should try to work out the problems with John. Section B （ A） Texas is the largest state in the US. （ B） Texas is the second largest state in the US. （ C） Texas ranks the forty-ninth in terms of the size
6、. （ D） Texas is smaller than Alaska, but it is a little bigger than many other states in the US. （ A） Texas has different kinds of weather patterns as it is a big state. （ B） Texas ranks the forty-ninth in terms of the size. （ C） Texas has the coldest place in winter in the US. （ D） Texas has the wa
7、rmest place in summer in the US. （ A） Visit Laredo in summer and Amarillo in winter. （ B） Visit Laredo in winter and Amarillo in summer. （ C） Visit Laredo in spring and Amarillo in autumn. （ D） Visit Laredo in winter and Amarillo in autumn. （ A） Branches. （ B） Leaves. （ C） Grass. （ D） Flowers. （ A）
8、Because they wanted to find more food. （ B） Because they wanted to build new camps. （ C） Because they wanted to escape enemies. （ D） Because they wanted to find new spices. （ A） Life is a lot easier. （ B） There are fewer dangers. （ C） Most people do not have to hunt for food. （ D） There is more exci
9、tement. （ A） Because they try to find some excitement. （ B） Because they try to have fun from hunting. （ C） Because they try to get back to nature. （ D） Because they try to look for adventure. Section C （ A） They fought with the other mice. （ B） They stayed close to their mothers. （ C） They ran back
10、 and forth constantly. （ D） They remained close to one wall. （ A） The extent of damage to the nervous system. （ B） The presence or absence of certain nerve-cell receptors. （ C） The size of nerve-cell receptors in the brain. （ D） The level of danger in the mammal s environment. （ A） To show the relat
11、ionship between fearfulness and environment. （ B） To give examples of animals that they aren t fearful. （ C） To compare fear in mammals to fear in other animals. （ D） To identify the nerves that control fear in certain animals. （ A） They didnt use singers. （ B） They gave free concerts. （ C） They per
12、formed in small nightclubs. （ D） They shortened the length of their performances. （ A） To discuss one way it impacted jazz music. （ B） To explain why the government reduced some taxes. （ C） To describe a common theme in jazz music. （ D） To discuss the popularity of certain jazz bands. （ A） The music
13、 contained strong political messages. （ B） The music had a steady beat that people could dance to. （ C） The music included sad melodies. （ D） The music contained irregular types of rhythms. （ A） The increase in beachfront property value. （ B） An experimental engineering project. （ C） The erosion of
14、coastal areas （ D） How to build seawalls. （ A） To protect beachfront property. （ B） To reduce the traffic on beach roads. （ C） To provide privacy for homeowners. （ D） To define property limits. （ A） By sending water directly back to sea with great force. （ B） By reducing wave energy. （ C） By reducin
15、g beach width. （ D） By stabilizing beachfront construction. （ A） Protect roads along the shore. （ B） Build on beaches with seawalls. （ C） Add sand to beaches with seawalls. （ D） Stop building seawalls. Section A 26 Education of exceptional children means provision of special educational services to
16、those children who are either handicapped or gifted. Exceptional children differ from average children in mental characteristics, sensory abilities, physical characteristics, emotional behaviour, or communication abilities to the extent that they require special educational services to develop their
17、【 C1】 _. The Department of Education【 C2】 _that 10 to 20 percent of the children in the Unite States suffer from handicaps. Another 2 to 3 percent are considered gifted. Special education provides these children with learning experiences suitable to their unique abilities. Caring for people who have
18、 disabilities is a relatively【 C3】 _idea. In ancient times disabled people were left to die. During the Middle Ages they were treated more【 C4】 _, but it was not thought that they could learn. In the 19th century, residential treatment centres were【 C5】 _, first in Europe and then in the US by indiv
19、idual states, to care for people who were blind, deaf, severely retarded, or suffered from severe emotional disorders. By the 20th century,【 C6】 _classes and public day schools were begun, but these served very few children. After World War II the attitude of Americans concerning the education of pe
20、rsons who were disabled changed significantly.【 C7】 _for special education was assumed by state legislatures and the federal government. Parent groups formed to【 C8】 _for the rights of children with disabilities, joined with professional educational programs. In 1925 the US congress passed the Educa
21、tion for All Handicapped Children Act which【 C9】 _a free and appropriate education to all children in the US between the ages of 3 and 21. The law provides funds for special education programs to states and local districts that【 C10】 _with a set of guidelines. A) established B) humanely C) installed
22、 D) estimates E) Responsibility F) guarantees G) potential H) probability I) special J) evaluates K) private L) lobby M) new N) personally O) comply 27 【 C1】 28 【 C2】 29 【 C3】 30 【 C4】 31 【 C5】 32 【 C6】 33 【 C7】 34 【 C8】 35 【 C9】 36 【 C10】 Section B 36 Why I Became a Teacher: to Pass on My Love of L
23、iterature A) Like lots of people, I never thought Id be a teacher when I was at school. To be honest 1 only did my training because my husband was on a four-year course and 1 was on a three-year course at Cardiff University so I wanted to do something for one year. I thought doing a teaching qualifi
24、cation would be interesting and might be quite useful. Im convinced that nothing else I might have done would have given me so much pleasure and satisfaction, or fitted in so well with family life. B) When I retire, in just a few years time, I can look back on a career which made a positive differen
25、ce to the lives of thousands of children. Few other career choices can be so rewarding, so if you have a love of your subject and want the opportunity to pass that on then teaching can be a great career. C) Anyone going into teaching now will be used to teaching to formal work schemes and observatio
26、n. I think it has raised standards in the profession but personally I feel the loss in the classroom. Ive got the confidence of 30 years experience. Ive seen new approaches come and go(and sometimes even identical “new ideas“ come and go more than once). D) For me, its the passion for your subject a
27、nd interest in the success of your students that matters more than how all the acronyms(首字母缩略词 ) add up. This is what will make you a good teacher. There s still room for individuals but you have to have the confidence and passion for your subject to make it work. E) The major challenge in teaching
28、is time. Theres not enough of it. Its hard if youre working full time to cope with the marking and feel that you have enough time to do your job properly. I ve worked part time ever since I had children. I officially work three days a week trot on my two days off I always work, it probably all adds
29、up to what counts as a full weeks work in most other jobs but the pay isn t bad so you can work part time and then the job really does fit in with family life. There are shortcuts to save time, and if had to work part time Id have to use them. But working part time gives me the luxury to be a critic
30、al marker. It can take two hours to mark a 3,000 word A level essay, so if you have 16 pupils thats 32 hours of marking in one week for just one class. F) One of the benefits of being a part-time teacher is that I do have time to mark properly. Sometimes my feedback is almost as long as their essay
31、but 1 really want the kids to do well. One of the best things about teaching is you get to raise childrens aspirations, and to make a difference in their lives. You get visits and emails from your old students to prove it! It s great to make the difference, and, as they say, it does make it all wort
32、hwhile. G) The core of teaching is the subject and the pupils. We have a lot of NQTs and PGCE students coming to our school and sometimes I must admit to being disappointed when students dont know their subjects that well. I had an NQT who was teaching Animal Farm and asked me “Whats Marxism?“ and s
33、hed got a first in her degree so it just goes to show that government initiatives to try and attract those with firsts aren t necessarily going work. H) However, lots of people drop out of teaching after a couple of years, it is an exhausting job. So my advice to those just starting out is: I) Don t
34、 lose your sense of proportion over things that happen in the classroom or in an observation that doesnt go well. As long as in the bigger picture of things you are connecting with kids and the subject then dont get frustrated. Even after 30 years of teaching everyone has fearful days in teaching, w
35、hen you think: “Can I really do this?“ Youve got to keep positive; its only a problem if you get more bad days than good days. J) Make sure teaching doesnt overwhelm you. You have to develop strategies especially if you are teaching a subject which requires a lot of marking. So plan things well. Get
36、 your pupils to do peer marking, which really can work. If you know you just cant handle any more marking in a particular week, get pupils to write a speech and then perform it in the next class. You ve got to think ahead about times of maximum workload and plan accordingly ask your more experienced
37、 colleagues for advice. K) Youve got to keep your sense of humour, which is a great way of relieving a situation. I know I became a better teacher when I became a parent. I realised that kids can be so unpleasant sometimes, even your own kids. They dont mean it; theyre just being kids. It doesnt mea
38、n they hate you or hate your lessons. When youre a new teacher coming into teaching, especially if you are young, you think of the students as almost your adversaries(对手 ), until you ve got to defeat them. But youve got to be careful what you say. You cant belittle them too much or you can really ha
39、rm them. L) Love your subject. If you are going to succeed in secondary school teaching, you must love your subject. The kids really know if you do or dont. M) You have to know your students are individuals, they learn in different ways. You have to be sensitive to that. N) You cant just teach a for
40、mula. 1 do worry about the difference between lip service to what the government say it s supposed to be like and what it s really like. I do hate the untruthfulness of that and the gulf seems to widen more and more. It feels like what matters most is whats tested. The trouble is nothing that is rea
41、lly worthwhile, the love of learning, connection with literature, having empathy these are the things that really make a difference to someones life but of course they cant be tested. Young teachers have to be careful not to get lost in formulas and initiatives. A more experienced teacher will have
42、confidence to respond to kids and to talk about an issue that s raised in class that s not on the plan. The children will learn so much from that but there s no box to tick. 37 Keeping sense of humor rather than belittling your students can help relieve a situation. 38 Teachers should not teach to a
43、 formula because what cannot be tested may really matter to a student s life. 39 For the author, the main challenge in teaching is that theres no enough time. 40 For teachers faced with a lot of marking, one strategy is to get pupils involved in peer marking. 41 When dealing with things that happen
44、in the classroom, teachers are advised to decide priorities. 42 Working part time enables the author to mark students assignments properly. 43 The author believes she has received most satisfaction from teaching as a career. 44 Students can tell whether a teacher loves his subject or not. 45 The aut
45、hor thinks that teaching to formal work schemes and observation can make a loss in the classroom. 46 According to the author, passion for a subject and interest in students success will make a good teacher. Section C 46 Mathematical ability and musical ability may not seem on the surface to be conne
46、cted, but people who have researched the subject and studied the brain say that they are. Three quarters of the bright but speech-delayed children in the group I studied had a close relative who was an engineer, mathematician or scientist, and four fifths had a close relative who played a musical in
47、strument. The children themselves usually took readily to math and other analytical subjects and to music. Black, white and Asian children in this group show the same patterns. However, it is clear that blacks have been greatly overrepresented in the development of American popular music and greatly
48、 underrepresented in such fields as mathematics, science and engineering. If the abilities required in analytical fields and in music are so closely related, how can there be this great discrepancy? One reason is that the development of mathematical and other such abilities requires years of formal
49、schooling, while certain musical talents can be developed with little or no formal training, as has happened with a number of well-known black musicians. It is precisely in those kinds of music where one can acquire great skill without formal training that blacks have excelled popular music rather than classical music, piano rather than violin, blues rather than opera. This is readily understandable, given that most blacks, for most of American history, have not had eith
