1、大学英语六级（ 2013年 12月考试改革适用）模拟试卷 255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 “Happiness is Like a Butterfly“. You can cite examples to illustrate your point. You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words. Write your
2、essay on Answer Sheet 1. Section A （ A） A city named Milton. （ B） A town named Milton. （ C） Toronto Airport. （ D） Milton Airport. （ A） Its 147 miles southwest of Land Transport Information. （ B） Its 148 miles southwest of Land Transport Information. （ C） Its 149 miles southwest of Land Transport Inf
3、ormation. （ D） Its 150 miles southwest of Land Transport Information. （ A） 1. （ B） 2. （ C） 3. （ D） 4. （ A） A cab. （ B） An Airport Shuttle Service. （ C） A Greyhound bus. （ D） A subway. （ A） Enjoy some snacks. （ B） Play basketball with friends from work. （ C） Try to get in the company baseball team. （
4、 D） Compete in a cycling race. （ A） She is worried the man will spend too much time away from home. （ B） She is afraid the man will become a fitness freak. （ C） She is concerned about the mans health. （ D） She is worried the man is not a professional player. （ A） He should see a doctor. （ B） Her hus
5、band should start with a light workout. （ C） Her husband needs to visit a fitness trainer. （ D） Her husband should try cycling to build up his cardiovascular system. （ A） He should consume less salt. （ B） He should add more protein to his diet. （ C） He should drink more dairy. （ D） He should eat les
6、s fatty foods. Section B （ A） The depressing cold weather. （ B） The bad economic situation. （ C） Unhealthy diet. （ D） Drugs and alcohol. （ A） Twenty. （ B） Twenty-four. （ C） Twenty-six. （ D） Twenty-eight. （ A） 10,000. （ B） 7,950. （ C） 240. （ D） 4,750. （ A） The wealthy white children. （ B） Children fr
7、om middle class families. （ C） Poor white children. （ D） Poor children from ethnic minorities. （ A） Since the kindergarten. （ B） Since the primary school. （ C） Since the middle school. （ D） Since the high school. （ A） Improvements of childrens achievements in school can be made. （ B） Children s heat
8、h can be improved. （ C） The school needs to care more about children s special talents. （ D） The educational system can be improved. （ A） Adding some science courses. （ B） Recruiting more good teachers. （ C） Build more labs. （ D） Buying more teaching equipments. Section C （ A） To explain why Wright
9、became an architect. （ B） To describe the positive aspects of Wrights architecture. （ C） To explain why Wrights style of architecture became less popular. （ D） To describe the materials Wight used in construction. （ A） His houses were often small. （ B） His designs were overly simple. （ C） His roofs
10、often leaked. （ D） His building did not match their natural surroundings. （ A） He helped construct a chapel. （ B） He took over his family s business. （ C） He trained under Guggenheim. （ D） He worked on a project overseas. （ A） They characterize stages in Wright s career. （ B） Wright died while they
11、were being constructed. （ C） They were Wright s earliest buildings. （ D） They are examples of Wrights classical styles. （ A） Theories of how the universe evolved. （ B） Similarities between the planets in the solar system. （ C） Reason for the high density of earth. （ D） Theories of the origin of the
12、Moon. （ A） Earth and the Moon traveled at different speeds. （ B） The Moon formed billions of years before Earth. （ C） Earth did not have enough gravitational pull. （ D） Earth and the Moon were too far from each other. （ A） The Moon has no water. （ B） The Moon s materials came from Earth s core. （ C）
13、 The Moon s core differs from its surface. （ D） The Moon contains little iron. （ A） It is difficult to define. （ B） Its causes are often unknown. （ C） Psychologists disagree about how to treat it. （ D） Its symptoms often go unnoticed. （ A） To explain the effect it has on mental illness. （ B） To sugg
14、est that it is easier to diagnose than mental illness. （ C） To discuss the role of medicine in clinical psychology. （ D） To show the similarities between physical and mental illness. （ A） Another means of measuring normal behavior. （ B） Why some politicians aren t well adjusted. （ C） How an individu
15、al s behavior is influenced by therapy. （ D） Problems often encountered by psychologists. Section A 26 Nearly two-thirds of businesses in the UK want to【 C1】 _staff with foreign language skills. French is still the most highly prized language, but Spanish and Mandarin speakers are more in【 C2】 _than
16、 in the past. Katja Hall, deputy director-general of Confederation of British Industry(CBI), said that, given the EU was the UK s largest export market, it was no surprise to see European languages so【 C3】 _valued. “But with China and Latin America seeing solid growth, ambitious firms want the langu
17、age skills that can【 C4】 _the path into new markets,“ she said. The 2014 annual education and skills survey by the CBI and Pearson, the educational publisher that owns the Financial Times, found that 41 percent of the 291 companies surveyed across the UK believed knowledge of a foreign language was【
18、 C5】 _to their business. European languages French, German and Spanish still topped the list in【 C6】 _of desirability, but these were closely followed by Mandarin and Arabic. However, the number of students studying foreign languages has【 C7】 _in the past decade. Ms Hall said it was unclear whether
19、recent government【 C8】 _to encourage language learning in schools would have any impact. “It has been a worry to see foreign language study in our schools under pressure with one in five schools having a【 C9】 _low take-up of languages,“ she said. “Young people considering their future subject choice
20、s should be made more【 C10】 _of the benefits to their careers that can come from studying a foreign language.“ A) slumped B) risen C) initiatives D) highly E) agencies F) demand G) pressure H) accidentally I) aware J) persistently K) harmful L) beneficial M) recruit N) smooth O) terms 27 【 C1】 28 【
21、C2】 29 【 C3】 30 【 C4】 31 【 C5】 32 【 C6】 33 【 C7】 34 【 C8】 35 【 C9】 36 【 C10】 Section B 36 The Dodge Brothers A) It was 100 years ago this week that the Dodge brothers founded the powerful car brand that still bears their name. But few have heard the tale of how the two-fisted brothers started their
22、business in Canada. John and Horace Dodge spent nearly eight years working in Windsor as machinists, founding their first company here, and learning how to massively produce manufactured goods. B) The Evans & Dodge Bicycle Company is nearly forgotten now. But it taught the brothers how to run a lead
23、ing-edge technology business which it was in those days, says Windsor automotive historian Mickey Moulder. After selling out to CCM in 1900, the brothers took $7,500 in capital out of the little Windsor Company back to Detroit and founded Dodge Brothers. So laid the foundation of the gigantic fortun
24、e they managed to produce before both dying in 1920. C) What a pair the quarrelling Dodge brothers were, with their red hair, their barrel chests and tendency for heavy boozing and bar fighting. Horace was the quieter mechanical brain, doggedly working out problems on his work bench with a micromete
25、r until midnight. John was the play boy, the salesman, the spokesman for the both of them. Although born four years apart, John in 1864 Horace in 1868, they were inseparable. Which is what brought them to Windsor. They had moved to Detroit from rural Niles, Mich., in 1886 at ages 22 and 18, taking j
26、obs in the same factory, Murphys Boiler Works. If they needed any toughening up, which is doubtful, they learned it there and the nearby waterfront taverns. D) But a fit of tuberculosis eventually made the heavy work impossible for John, so in 1892 he came to Windsor looking for lighter duties at th
27、e Dominion Typograph Company on Sandwich Street(now Riverside Drive). E) According to family legend, the owners of the company, located in the Medbury Block just west of Ouellette Avenue, wanted to hire only one machinist. But John announced both he and Horace would be hired as a team or neither of
28、them would work in Canada. The two leading technologies of the day were typesetting machines and bicycles. And Dominion happened to make both. That especially suited Horace. F) Moulder, a car collector and former Ford of Canada executive, has been a lifelong student of automotive history. He s also
29、co-chairman of the Canadian Transportation Museum in Essex, and he tells the Dodge story with enthusiasm. “Bicycles were the high-tech mechanical device of the 1880s and 1890s. Everybody and the two brothers(literally) were fascinated by them,“ Moulder says, “The Dodge brothers, the Leland brothers(
30、Cadillac, Lincoln) and the Wright brothers all built bicycles before their gasoline machines“. G) John became foreman at Dominion Typograph, Horace a “skilled machinist,“ according to the Windsor City Directory of 1894. Within five years its owner, Fred Evans, had taken in the brothers as full partn
31、ers and they devoted themselves to building bicycles exclusively. H) Their products were known for being extremely smooth, reliable and robust, just as their cars would be a few years later. By November, 1897, Evans & Dodge employed 100 people in Windsor. I) But the overpopulated bicycle industry be
32、gan consolidating, and Evans and Dodge decided to sell. Although John had married a Canadian from Walkerton, Ont, and Horace was married on his lunch-break at a church in Walkerville, the Dodges had never lived in Windsor. So they took their little nest egg back to Detroit and rented a new shop. The
33、y started taking orders for difficult-to-machine parts. Business took off due to high quality work and respect for deadlines. J) Their first big customer: Ransom Olds, father of the first mass produced American automobile. They built engines and transmissions for him, quickly making big money. “The
34、Dodge brothers got a reputation for being really, really good suppliers,“ Moulder says. K) Henry Ford came knocking next, and they were soon supplying him with nearly complete cars. Ford was broke, was a poor machinist and couldnt make much himself. “The Dodge brothers essentially provided the heart
35、 and soul of the first Ford cars built in 1903 and 1904,“ Moulder says. “The running chassis(底盘 ) was made by Dodge Brothers. Ford just put on the fenders, the windshield, the headlights, the seats, dressed it up. Ford didnt make its own first car. Dodge Brothers did. And that s why Ford became so w
36、ell known, because the car was so well built“. L) “They were geniuses. They were tough bastards, too,“ says Moulder. “They were big guys, and you didn t cross either of them or badmouth them because theyd hear about it. And if they happened to see you in a bar at the wrong time even if you were a la
37、wyerafter they had a few drinks in them . The Dodges would either drag the offending party out into the street for their punishment or break up the whole bar. Then next morning theyd come back and pay for all the damages. They were tough birds, which is why they took on Henry Ford. Everybody else wa
38、s afraid of him, but they took him on and won.“ M) Fords defeat in a dispute over stocks the Dodges owned in his company came in the form of a lawsuit which netted the Dodges $25 million more than enough to launch their own car brand in 1914. They started by incorporating all the ideas Henry Ford ha
39、d rejected. Technologically, they were well ahead of the pack. N) “Weve got a beautiful Dodge Brothers car, a 1920 four door sedan,“ Moulder says. Its on permanent display at the Transportation Museum on the Arner Town Line. “Its full of advances that you would never find on any other car at the tim
40、e.“ For instance: the first metal weather stripping to keep rain out of the passenger compartment, the first one-piece roof stampings, the first silent starters, and the first 12-volt electrical systems. A Dodge always started in the cold due to those 12-volt systems, which is why the rest of the wo
41、rld eventually followed suit, Moulder says. O) The brothers got to enjoy quite a bit of their vast wealth, building castle-like mansions outside Detroit and commissioning giant yachts. But their premature deaths at ages 55 and 52 shocked the world at the time. John sat for days on end at Horace s be
42、dside when his younger brother was stricken by the Spanish flu, leaving only when he himself collapsed from it, dying a few days later. Horace rallied and lived a few more months before following his beloved older brother into a crypt in the familys huge tomb in Detroits Woodlawn Cemetery. Johns Can
43、adian wife ran Dodge Brothers the company until 1925, selling out for $147 million to a Wall Street investment firm, which flipped it three years later to Walter P. Chrysler for $175 million. 37 The Dodge brothers were tough guys and thats one of the reason that they worked with Henry Ford who was a
44、fraid by many other people. 38 The brothers first big customer is Ransom Olds from whom they earned a lot of money as well as a good reputation. 39 The two brothers both died at their fifties and the company was eventually sold out by John s wife. 40 The Dodge brothers at first were worker of The Ev
45、ans & Dodge Bicycle Company which taught the brothers how to run a leading-edge technology business and paved their way to success. 41 After they left the overpopulated bicycle industry, they moved to Detroit and rented a new shop where they began to build automobile parts for other companies. 42 Th
46、e bicycles produced by the Dodge brothers were known for being extremely smooth, reliable and robust. 43 According to Moulder bicycles were the high-tech mechanical device of the 1880s and 1890s. Everybody and the two brothers(literally) were fascinated by them. 44 Ford cars reputation is largely ow
47、ing to The Dodge brothers who essentially provided the heart and soul of the first Ford cars built in 1903 and 1904. 45 Due to tuberculosis, John gave up the heavy job and came to Windsor looking for lighter duties at the Dominion Typography Company. 46 The two brothers have different characters and
48、 they are inseparable and both have red hair, barrel chests and tendency for heavy boozing and bar fighting. Section C 46 South Africa has 11 official languages. If you want to say hello, its “sawubona“ in Zulu, and “hallo“ in Afrikaans. Now, South Africas school children may start using “ni hao“ to
49、 say hello. The countrys education minister says, the nation is adding the Mandarin language teaching in some schools. Mandarin is the official spoken language of China. That country is a major trading power for South Africa. A recent agreement between the two nations centres on five areas of cooperation. They include development in basic education, school books and lessons, mathematics and science, teacher training and career education and research. South Africa officials have n
