1、大学英语六级（ 2013年 12月考试改革适用）模拟试卷 267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 How to Establish a Healthy Living Style? You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words. Write your essay on Answer Sheet 1. 1越来越多的人开始崇尚简单、健康的生活方式； 2造成
2、这种现象的原因： 3我们可以 Section A （ A） To do some clerical work. （ B） To own her own law office. （ C） To become a well-known lawyer. （ D） To practice law in well-known law offices. （ A） Her personal characters. （ B） Urgent need for lawyers in her country. （ C） Its social status and promising future. （ D） Her
3、 childhood dream. （ A） She can offer more help for people to buy their own houses. （ B） She can do a better job for a woman client in a divorce case. （ C） She can help people who are mistreated win more justice. （ D） She can make more money and be better respected. （ A） America has the best educatio
4、n systems. （ B） Female lawyers are respected there. （ C） She followed her parents advice. （ D） America has some of the best law schools. （ A） A government department. （ B） A standard unit for measuring weight. （ C） The value of precious metals. （ D） The humid weather. （ A） Checking the accuracy of s
5、cales. （ B） Calculating the density of metals. （ C） Observing changes in the atmosphere. （ D） Measuring amounts of rain fall. （ A） It was eroded by some chemicals. （ B） The scales are obscure. （ C） The standard for measuring had changed. （ D） It absorbed moisture and was inaccurate. （ A） It is relat
6、ively cheap for so much precious metal. （ B） It is difficult to judge the value of such an object. （ C） It is reasonable for an object with such an important function. （ D） It is too expensive for such a light weight. Section B （ A） More than 400. （ B） More than 4,000. （ C） About 200. （ D） About 50.
7、 （ A） Eating less salt will help decrease blood pressure. （ B） Many people in America have high blood pressure. （ C） Some patients dont follow the doctors suggestion. （ D） Eating unhealthy foods has effects on ones health. （ A） The decrease in blood pressure. （ B） Continued high-blood pressure. （ C）
8、 Taking too much medicine. （ D） Excessive intake of vitamins. （ A） Cooked meat products are safe to eat. （ B） People should eat less popular prepared foods. （ C） To decrease salt, popular prepared foods need to be improved. （ D） High blood pressure patients should see a doctor. （ A） All the transpor
9、tation is free. （ B） Every one can get medical treatment and job training. （ C） Free health care and social services. （ D） The state offers affordable housing. （ A） The universities are all free for students. （ B） The state pays the bill for its students study overseas. （ C） People can choose any sc
10、hool they like. （ D） People can go to universities without tests. （ A） They can also get free education. （ B） They all work in oil companies. （ C） They mostly come from Arab countries. （ D） They live in the poor districts. Section C （ A） There are three different types of storage systems. （ B） Diffe
11、rent memory holds information for different amounts of time. （ C） Different types of storage systems have different functions. （ D） Memory works as a kind of storage system for information. （ A） There is much room for information in it. （ B） It holds information for about 15 to 20 seconds. （ C） It h
12、olds information almost indefinitely. （ D） It maintains information for about 25 to 30 seconds. （ A） Declarative memory and procedure memory. （ B） Declarative memory and short-term memory. （ C） Short-term memory and procedure memory. （ D） Sensory memory and procedure memory. （ A） Our skills and habi
13、ts. （ B） Our personal lives. （ C） General knowledge or facts. （ D） Factual information. （ A） The term is not widely used today. （ B） The term began to be used after 1867. （ C） The term was used in a famous novel. （ D） The term was invented by Horatio Alger. （ A） It is the dream of the American to le
14、ad a common life. （ B） It is the hope of the American to have a better quality of life. （ C） It is the wish of the American to live an extraordinary life. （ D） It is the strong desire to have an average level of life. （ A） It may lead to people seeking to improve their lifestyle. （ B） It could resul
15、t in the desire to create opportunities for ourselves. （ C） It can bring about more financial security and better jobs. （ D） It may lead to an out-of-control consumerism and materialism. （ A） Being healthy and charming. （ B） To be wealthy and attractive. （ C） Being famous and attractive. （ D） To be
16、healthy and accepted. （ A） Because it protects you from getting sunburnt. （ B） Because it helps you get a perfectly tanned skin. （ C） Because its in charge of filtering the harmful sun rays. （ D） Because it repairs your skin that damaged by the sunlight. （ A） It helps protect the bone and protects u
17、s from diseases. （ B） It may protect the bone and cure some diseases. （ C） It helps build up new bones and protects us from diseases. （ D） It could build up new bones and cure some diseases. Section A 26 The U.S. dollar was supposed to be at the end of its rope. Kicking the bucket. Well, maybe not.
18、The dollar continues to【 C1】 _gloom-and-doom predictions. After a swoon(低迷 )last year, the dollar is again enjoying a major rally. The U.S. dollar index, which【 C2】 _the dollars value against other major currencies, is just off an eight-month high. The main reason behind the dollars【 C3】 _is actuall
19、y no real surprise at all. There is no alternative able to replace the dollar as the worlds No. 1 currency. Sure, the U.S. budget deficit is expanding, the governments debt is increasing, and Wall Street is still【 C4】 _itself. But the dollar remains the prettiest of a flock of ugly ducklings. Is any
20、 other major industrialized economy【 C5】 _better off than the U.S.? Not really. Just about the【 C6】 _developed world is suffering with the same problems. Thats why when investors get nervous, they still rush to the good old dollar. The dollar wins because no one else is really in the game. The euro
21、has been exposed as a【 C7】 _. Only a few months ago, economists truly believed the euro could【 C8】 _the dollar as the top reserve currency. Now experts are questioning if the euro has a future at all. The Greek debt crisis has【 C9】_that the euro is only as strong as its weakest link. And after the e
22、uro, where do global investors turn? The yen? Japans economy, with higher government debt and crushing deflation(通货紧缩 ), has even deeper structural problems than Americas. Maybe over the next 20 or 30 years, the dollar will slowly lose the dominant status it Holds today. That process,【 C10】 _, could
23、 well be driven by the appearance of new rivals. A)absolute E)concise I)recovery M)measures B)fraud F)revealed J)rival N)partially C)relieving G)defy K)slump O)repairing D)however H)entire L)particularly 27 【 C1】 28 【 C2】 29 【 C3】 30 【 C4】 31 【 C5】 32 【 C6】 33 【 C7】 34 【 C8】 35 【 C9】 36 【 C10】 Secti
24、on B 36 Can Tony Blair Save the World of Books? AAt the beginning of A Journey, Tony Blair boasts that he has “the soul of a rebel“. Last week, he made good on that boast by conducting a gravity-defying act of literary presumption publishing a hardback of some 720 pages, priced at 25, tricked out wi
25、th index, acknowledgments and 32 pages of photographic plates. BAccording to Cathy Rentzenbrink, manager of the Richmond Waterstones: “These sales are brilliant and really exciting. You dont often have customers almost breaking down the door to buy a book, but Blair is totally outselling Mandelson.
26、Ive not seen anything this big since Harry Potter or Dan Brown. This looks like the Christmas book of the year.“ She adds: “Its very rare for a hardback to outsell a future paperback, but this might be one of those exceptions.“ Rentzenbrink says she does not know its Amazon discount, or if theres a
27、significant ebook and audiobook sale. What matters is that a fat hardback with a big print run is actually selling. CGo into any bookshop today and you will find the unmistakable evidence of a business in the midst of a collective nervous breakdown: hardbacks discounted at 50%: heaped tables of “3 f
28、or 2“: and other hints of the death of print: audiobooks and advertisements for the Sony Reader, or the Elonex touch screen, or the Cybook Opus. This year, there are more than 20 competing e-readers. DAcross the Atlantic, Blairs chunky memoir(回忆录 )will seem even more antique. The American reading pu
29、blic is adopting the ebook with the enthusiasm of a great consumer society. Wherever you go in the US, the electronic print of the hand-held screen glows like fairytale magic. Ebook sales are soaring, accompanied by terrible predictions about the future of publishing. The picture is all the more dis
30、turbing because its so hard to interpret, with competing diagnoses. Are we in intensive care or the morgue(太平 间 )? ESince 2000, the Anglo-American book business has been rocked by great disturbance. Google has digitised some 10 million titles. Barnes and Noble is for sale. Borders, bankrupt in the U
31、K, clings on in the US. Here, Waterstones parent company, HMV, wants to sell. Amazons market share continues to soar. Asda, Tesco and the supermarket chains are said to be draining the life out of independent bookselling. In the US, its claimed that ebooks are now outselling many hardbacks. By the e
32、nd of this year, 10.3 million Americans are expected to own e-readers, buying an estimated 100m ebooks. FIn the UK, electronic publishing lags behind the US, but many of the brightest publishing brains, notably Enhanced Editions, are looking hard at the potential of the book as application. Only a f
33、ew people would dispute that its a matter of time before the ebook joins the iPod and the mobile phone as a vital component of the way we live. Ebooks, indeed, are already integral to the iPad and last week Amazon launched a sales campaign for its latest Kindle. Deplore this if you must, but be prep
34、ared: even the Oxford English Dictionary is now conceding that its third edition, 21 years in the making, will be published not on paper but online. GThe 25 hardback of Blairs A Journey will certainly become a traditional bestseller. But many nervous industry observers are watching to see how many e
35、books it sells. Within the book trade itself, all the main players(agents, editors, booksellers)have converted to e-reading, and now some authors are exploring the potential of the new technology. Stephen Fry is said to be developing a revolutionary application for his forthcoming autobiography. Yet
36、 many traditional publishers privately say that printed books will continue to be manufactured, bought and cherished. HThe buzz surrounding last weeks Kindle launch raises the possibility that the book is about to become swallowed up by an “iPod moment“ for literature, similar to the transformation
37、wrought on the music industry by downloading. Who knows? Heres where gazing into the crystal ball for the biggest IT revolution in 500 years gets really difficult. ITim Waterstone, who has had an unusual sense of what the British book buyer wants, remains sceptical. He concedes that the reference bo
38、ok market(dictionaries, encyclopedias)is “certain to go online“. But what about fiction? Biography? Poetry? Childrens books? “Personally,“ he says, “I dont think so.“ JLike many great booksellers, Waterstone is a cultural conservative. As he talks, he spots a paperback classic on his 17-year-old dau
39、ghters bookshelves, and launches into the old defence of ink and paper. “Thats incredible value,“ says Waterstone. “Shes a child of the digital age and shes still buying books.“ So whats the future? A long pause. “The only honest thing to say is: I really dont know.“ KAnother innovator, the writer W
40、ill Self whose Walking to Hollywood, an introduction for the movie business, has just been published is in no doubt. “Ive unknowingly acquired a Kindle,“ says Self, “and I find that everything I read on it, especially Stieg Larsson, becomes nonsense. Im inclined to blame the technology. With no phys
41、ical similarity I think the text loses its weight.“ Self confesses to being unsure how much of his own backlist is available in ebook form. LSelfs response to the e-reader is echoed on the shop floor of Waterstones. Next to a discreet sign advertising “reading accessories“ I found Elizabeth Squires,
42、 a mother of two, hesitated to buy Blair. This would be a departure for her because she buys “20 or 30 new books a year, all paperback, all fiction“. Half of these she gets from Amazon. Audiobooks? “Strictly for the kids.“ An ebook? “No. Why should I? I havent got anything to read it on.“ Is she tem
43、pted? “Ive been thinking about buying the Kindle, but it would never replace my book collection. Book lovers will always love books. Theres something irreplaceable about a book. It gives you a physical, even an aesthetic, experience. For me, its an emotional thing. My books are my friends. Theres so
44、mething about having a book in bed, about holding it, even smelling it, that I could never get from an e-reader. Isnt the first thing you do when you move house, to rearrange your books?“ MElsewhere, the rearrangement of the book trade continues quickly. Last weeks New York Times Book Review contain
45、ed no fewer than three separate items about the death of print. But paradoxically, the age of digitisation is both a golden age of ink and a boom time for narrative, in many media, on countless “platforms“, from blogs, audiobooks to television soaps and Facebook. NBookshops are changing. The worst a
46、re becoming novelty item and greetings card booth, but the good ones are selling more books than ever, and the publishers, cursing the climate and moaning as usual about the state of the harvest, show few signs of cutting back on their output. Blairs success suggests that the book-buying public may
47、talk digital but actually buy printed books. 37 The sales of Blairs 720-page-book are excellent and exciting. 38 Now authors are exploring the potential of the ebook technology. 39 An innovator considers everything he read in e-reader nonsense. 40 The new era of digitisation is also a golden age of
48、ink and narrative. 41 It is widely accepted that ebooks will become a vital component of the way we live. 42 The campaign of digitising 10 million books has a tremendous impact on book business. 43 The high discount of printed books in stores indicate that the paper book business is collapsing. 44 B
49、lairs memoir is even more antique in the US because ebooks are embraced by most US readers. 45 A bookseller believes that compared with reference book, books like fiction are less likely to go online. 46 Unwilling to give up her book collection, a woman thinks there is something irreplaceable in a physical book. Section C 46 That a lack of wealth all too often translates into poor health may seem painfully obvious. But now a review of health in
