1、大学英语六级（ 2013年 12月考试改革适用）模拟试卷 265及答案与解析 一、 Part I Writing 1 For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled The Importance of Information Security. You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words. Write your essay on Answer Sheet 1. 1很多人认为信息安全很重要 2有的人认为信息不是实物，
2、所以信息安全无关紧要 3我认为 Section A （ A） Calculating the budget of the department. （ B） Completing an open-ended question survey. （ C） Talking about the womans campus life. （ D） Discussing a complex experiment. （ A） Taker up her first job at school. （ B） Spend her summer holiday. （ C） Study for her Masters de
3、gree. （ D） Study as an exchange student. （ A） The university regards chemistry as unimportant. （ B） The Chemistry department is under-funded. （ C） There is not enough space in the Chemistry department. （ D） The Chemistry department has overspent their budget this year. （ A） They are not devoted to t
4、heir work. （ B） They dont take their students seriously. （ C） They are unsatisfied with the equipment. （ D） They signed contracts on behalf of the school. （ A） It is as good as the previous ones. （ B） It is more incredible than the previous ones. （ C） It is funnier than the previous ones. （ D） It is
5、 worse than the previous ones. （ A） Fantastic settings. （ B） Special effects. （ C） Mysterious costumes. （ D） The theme song. （ A） It was a little bit weak. （ B） It was as strong as the previous one. （ C） It was funny and meaningful. （ D） It was a little bit boring. （ A） The man is still expecting th
6、e next episode. （ B） The man will reschedule his time to watch the movie. （ C） The next episode will be released next year. （ D） The next episode will be much better than this one. Section B （ A） They are very frightening and powerful. （ B） They are interested in tornadoes. （ C） They all work very h
7、ard. （ D） They dont know why tornadoes occur. （ A） Where dry and humid air masses meet. （ B） Where the air becomes warm and humid. （ C） When thunderstorms or tornadoes occur. （ D） When the air rises very rapidly. （ A） It will remain the same. （ B） Its air will be sucked up. （ C） It will explode outw
8、ard. （ D） It will move a little. （ A） 33. （ B） 44. （ C） 433. （ D） 443. （ A） A place with a heavy rain. （ B） A town with a sunny day. （ C） A beautiful summer resort. （ D） An interesting advertisement. （ A） She didnt like the job any more. （ B） She made a mistake in the report. （ C） She was criticized
9、 for her clothes. （ D） Her boss often found faults with her. （ A） Every time they watch TV. （ B） When they make mistakes. （ C） When theyre going on holiday. （ D） When they meet forecasters. Section C （ A） Human beings are the only animals who can laugh. （ B） One starts laughing when he is about six
10、months old. （ C） Laughter has many functions other than expressing joy. （ D） Almost all the animals can laugh in some way. （ A） The sparkling of eyes. （ B） The opening of mouth. （ C） The movement of muscles. （ D） The blinking of eyes. （ A） Comedy originated in ancient Rome. （ B） Theaters originally
11、appeared in Italy. （ C） Stand-up comedians were popular in France. （ D） Comedy was once banned in Europe. （ A） It improves hearing. （ B） It causes infections. （ C） It keeps our ears dry. （ D） It protects our ears. （ A） A soft cloth. （ B） Mineral oil. （ C） The little finger. （ D） A cotton swab. （ A）
12、Water is poured into the ear. （ B） It is the safest method of all. （ C） Cold water should be used. （ D） It can be repeated several times. （ A） It is the first same sex school. （ B） It is located in New York city. （ C） It began to admit students in 2008. （ D） It charges students a high tuition fee. （
13、 A） Boys are more attentive than girls. （ B） Girls are more active than boys. （ C） Boys get more attention than girls. （ D） Boys and girls are treated equally. （ A） Students perform better in same sex classrooms. （ B） Students perform better in mixed sex classrooms. （ C） Differences outweigh similar
14、ities between boys and girls. （ D） Similarities outweigh differences between boys and girls. （ A） Attending a pre-school program. （ B） Attending a same sex school. （ C） Going to school earlier. （ D） Having good personalities. Section A 26 The English national character is dualistic: One aspect is co
15、nservative, the other extroverted(性格外向的 ). The pub is a fine example of the conservative aspect of English character. The pub, unlike the bar in the U.S., is a focal【 C1】 _for the “locals.“ One goes to the pub for the same reasons one used to go to church: for fellowship and spiritual【 C2】 _. There
16、is nothing flashy or plastic about most pubs. Many look like ones living room, full of soft chairs, couches, a fireplace, and bright lights. The pubs keep【 C3】 _hours, too. There are no all-night or 3 A.M. public bars. When the pubs close everyone goes home. The pub represents【 C4】_with control and
17、in good taste. This control is【 C5】 _in English humor. Most Americans find nothing【 C6】_in English comedy shows, since English humor is word oriented while American humor is more action oriented. The same control that is found in English pubs and humor is also found in the English【 C7】 _of living. W
18、here else does one stand in line quietly for the bus or the taxi? However, there is another side to the English Character the【 C8】 _, the adventurous, and the innovative. It was not the U.S. but conservative England that produced the Beatles with their long hair and sounds that have【 C9】 _a decade o
19、f rock musicians and adolescents. The English are innovators and experimenters in many areas: A. S. Neills Summerhill has become the model for progressive education. R. D. Laing claims that it is not the individual who is insane but his society, which【 C10】 _categorizes him and forces him to fit int
20、o abstract norms. A)concrete E)influenced I)funny M)orthodox B)enlightenment F)indignantly J)pace N)constantly C)bizarre G)point K)perception O)exemplified D)pleasure H)amplified L)respectable 27 【 C1】 28 【 C2】 29 【 C3】 30 【 C4】 31 【 C5】 32 【 C6】 33 【 C7】 34 【 C8】 35 【 C9】 36 【 C10】 Section B 36 Nur
21、se Home Visits: A Boost for Low-Income Parents ANurse home visitor Tammy Ballard has had some memorable experiences in close to a decade of helping new mothers raising their children in poverty in Dayton, Ohio. Once, she arrived at a new clients home to find a TV news crew waiting outside: apparentl
22、y, someone fleeing gunfire had sought shelter there. Another time, she knocked on a door only to hear screaming in response, but no one would let her in. Later she learned it was the familys parrots, which had been trained to shout at visitors. BBallards job when she can get in the house is to try t
23、o give low-income parents a leg up. She teaches them many of the same child-rearing techniques that give the children of middle-class and educated parents an edge socially and in school and that instruction is often eye-opening for both Ballard and her clients. You would be surprised to know what ne
24、w parents dont know, Ballard says, recalling the case of one father who thought babies couldnt hear at birth. “He asked, When do their eyes open? He thought they were like puppies,“ she says. CTheres no doubt that low-income parents indeed, most new parents could use a little guidance. In some count
25、ries, like France, that guidance is institutionalized. Nurse home visits for all pregnant and new mothers are routine and free of charge, sponsored by the government. In the U.S. the national Nurse-Family Partnership program(NFP)covers about 16,300 families living in poverty in 25 states, but Presid
26、ent Obama has said he plans to expand the benefit, extending it to every first-time poor mother in the countryabout 570,000 women each year. The Presidents stimulus plan includes more than $3 billion in funding for early-childhood-intervention programs such as Head Start and Early Head Start. DThe q
27、uestion is, will the money make a real difference in childrens lives? In a recent article in The New York Times, Douglas Besharov of the conservative think tank American Enterprise Institute and a colleague argued that expanding pre-kindergarten programs “without demanding reforms will not help chil
28、dren.“ Other critics have also stated that funding early-childhood initiatives is just a consolation to liberal interest groups. EBut the science supporting warm and fuzzy early-childhood interventions is sound and is only getting stronger. “Theres converging evidence from neuroscience(神经学 ), social
29、 science and animal data,“ says Martha Farah, director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania. “If you want to invest societal resources where they will have the biggest benefit for all of us, clearly the evidence is there now that protecting children from the wor
30、st kinds of deprivation in their youngest years will result in more functional, capable, prosocial citizens.“ FThe NFP was developed in the 1970s by David Olds, a professor of pediatrics(小儿科 )and preventive medicine at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. NFP involves about 64 home vis
31、its from a nurse during the first 2.5 years of a childs life. Many of the new mothers who receive the benefit are single, are on welfare, have low education levels and are dealing with addiction, mental illness and family violence. Nurses visit once a week during pregnancy and early infancy, answeri
32、ng health questions, teaching basic parenting skills and, crucially, helping moms whose own early lives were often characterized by chaos build confidence that they can do better for their children. GThese visits have a pretty good payoff. A recent analysis by the Rand Corp. found that for every dol
33、lar spent providing nurse visitors to high-risk families, the government could save nearly $6 in welfare, juvenile-justice and health-care costs down the line. Dividends for the families well-being may be even higher. A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association(J.AM.A.)a few
34、 years ago found that children in the north of New York whose mothers were visited by nurses during pregnancy and two years after birth were 59% less likely to have been arrested 15 years later, compared with a control group. HAnother study, also in J.AM.A., found that nurse home visits were associa
35、ted with a nearly 50% drop in rates of child abuse or neglect in new families and that visits increased the amount of time between a mothers first and second pregnancies. Rates of hypertension(高血压 ), which is known to interfere with fetal brain development, were also reduced. And mothers spent less
36、time on welfare and worked more. ITheres really no mystery to the programs success, says Olds. Simple interventions, like encouraging new parents to show affection to their children or to talk to them more, result in huge rewards for babies. In poor families, adults tend to speak to babies only to i
37、ssue commands, in a business-only style of parenting rather than talking to children to communicate affection, identify objects, introduce concepts or teach language a phenomenon more common in middle-class and wealthy households. Studies have shown that by pre-school age, children whose parents ges
38、ture or talk to them less in babyhood know significantly fewer vocabulary words than children whose parents engage them more often. That deficit can affect students performance for years. JWhat happens early has a long-term impact, says Olds. Indeed, about 90% of a childs brain growth takes place be
39、fore kindergarten, so its critical to teach new parents what to expect as a child develops not only during pregnancy and early childhood but also as the child matures. A large part of nurse home visits are designed to teach parents how to respond to their children as they age and help them manage th
40、e extra burden of parenting with few resources. Says Olds: “Learning to understand childrens motivations and abilities helps parents treat them more sensitively and responsively, and that makes it easier for children to accept guidance and not respond provocatively.“ KIt also creates a less stressfu
41、l environment and protects against child abuse and neglect, and those reductions can in turn cut childrens risks of later engaging in crime and suffering from addiction, mental illness, obesity and cardiovascular(心血管的 )disease. The key, according to Olds research, begins with properly trained nurses
42、: home visits by paraprofessionals(专业人员的助手 )arent as effective. Despite the current shortage of nurses in the U.S., Olds says his program is ready to grow. “The NFP is ready for substantial expansion, as long as we recognize that serving 500,000 new families per year will take time.“ But its an inve
43、stment that self-propagates. Once the nurses have educated new moms, says Ballard, the mothers start educating one another. “Its so neat to watch,“ she says. “We give information to our clients, and they share with neighbors. One client was the go-to person for everything. Shed say, Talking to your
44、babies makes them smart. And the other moms would always come to her.“ 37 Encouraging parents to express affection does good to babies. 38 It is best to invest societal resources into home visit programs. 39 In some countries, nurse home visit programs are funded by government. 40 Nurse home visit i
45、s eye-opening because of clients poor childcare knowledge. 41 A nurse home visitor found that her clients raise parrots to scare away visitors. 42 Some people claim that pre-kindergarten programs wont help unless a demanding reform is carried out. 43 According to a study, children are less likely to
46、 commit crimes if their mothers have received visits by nurses in early years. 44 Compared with middle-class ones, parents of poor families are likely to speak to babies only to issue commands. 45 To make it easier for children to accept guidance, it is important for parents to understand their chil
47、drens motivations and abilities. 46 According to a research, an effective home visit attributes to properly trained nurses. Section C 46 Researchers have reconstructed an ancient human genome(基因组 )for the first time, thanks to the discovery of a 4000-year-old strand of hair in Greenland permafrost(永
48、冻土 ). Experts say that similar techniques could be employed in many other ways, such as analyzing the DNA of South American mummies or crime victims. The sample was taken from one of four strands of hair collected in Greenland by Danish archaeologists in the 1980s. The hairs are the only known human
49、 remains from the earliest people to settle in Greenland. A chance conversation alerted University of Copenhagen researcher Eske Willerslev, who was just back from two unsuccessful months in Greenland searching for human remains to test for DNA, to the sample, which had been stored at the National Museum of Denmark for more than 20 years. Once they had the hairs in their possession, Willerslev and colleagues set about sequencing the sample. The team used doz
