1、大学英语六级（ 2013年 12月考试改革适用）模拟试卷 2及答案与解析 一、 Part I Writing 1 For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay entitled How to Be Creative by commenting on this remark by a creativity expert, “If youre not prepared to be wrong, youll never come up with anything original.“ You should write at l
2、east 150 words but no more than 200 words. Write your essay on Answer Sheet 1. Section A （ A） Take her to another hike. （ B） Go hiking again next week. （ C） Plan another rally next week. （ D） Go to the rally when it takes place again. （ A） He is looking for a better employment in New York. （ B） Hes
3、looking forward to working in New York. （ C） He hopes to work in the same place. （ D） He expects his company to move to New York. （ A） Seeing a doctor. （ B） Having the dinner. （ C） Giving a lecture. （ D） Studying in some place. （ A） The man will be punished for his lateness. （ B） Professor Lee is al
4、ways punctual. （ C） The woman thinks that the man is playing a joke on her. （ D） The woman suggests the man give a watch to Professor Lee. （ A） Have a sound sleep right away. （ B） Try something less sweet. （ C） Visit the College Board. （ D） See the campus doctor. （ A） They are a bargain worth buying
5、. （ B） They are of poor quality. （ C） They are available everywhere. （ D） They are over priced. （ A） He decided not to sell the piano. （ B） He found a place to store the piano. （ C） No one has bought the piano. （ D） Hell post notices at local stores. （ A） It is going to be sunny with breeze. （ B） It
6、 is going to be cloudy with heavy wind. （ C） It is going to be hot, humid and gloomy. （ D） It is going to be very cold. （ A） It could not receive or make calls. （ B） It receives the signal but always cuts off halfway. （ C） It can make calls but the signal is not clear. （ D） It could only receive inc
7、oming calls. （ A） Damage to the equipment, （ B） The mans wrong operation. （ C） The line upgrading. （ D） It was unclear. （ A） He will buy another cell phone. （ B） He will complain again if the problem isnt settled. （ C） He will ask for a refund if the problem isnt solved. （ D） He will complain to the
8、 management. （ A） A way to join a bicycle race. （ B） Major British bicycle races. （ C） The contribution of cycling to health. （ D） An annual cycling event. （ A） The length of the course. （ B） The route the cyclists take. （ C） The number of participants. （ D） The date when the tour is held. （ A） Ther
9、e is no rush. （ B） The winner becomes the king. （ C） Friendship first, competition second. （ D） Faster and stronger. （ A） Fruit. （ B） Water. （ C） Lunch. （ D） Repair services. Section B （ A） Children will get absent-minded if they play video games. （ B） Children will get healthier if they change thei
10、r diet. （ C） Children will improve their grades if they stop watching TV. （ D） Children will lose weight if they spend less time watching TV. （ A） Because they prove the direct effect of reduction in television viewing. （ B） Because they show the great importance of physical activity. （ C） Because t
11、hey help settle on the best diet small children need. （ D） Because they indicate that children benefit much from TV programs. （ A） Children will move more and consume more energy if they dont watch TV. （ B） Children will spend more time studying if they are not allowed to watch TV. （ C） Children wil
12、l eat more food to their taste if they have special diets. （ D） Children will be indulged in video games if parents dont supervise them. （ A） Because good men are not as smart as the police. （ B） Because good people have no sense of guilt. （ C） Because good people have hardly done anything to preven
13、t crimes. （ D） Because good people commit more criminal activities recently. （ A） Stricter internal disciplines should be. maintained. （ B） More good examples should be set for people to follow. （ C） More restrictions should be imposed on peoples behavior. （ D） More people should accept the American
14、 way of life. （ A） Society is to be held responsible. （ B） Modern civilization is responsible for it. （ C） The criminal himself should bear the blame. （ D） The standards of living should be improved. （ A） Through his hard work at training. （ B） Through his training as a preacher. （ C） Through his re
15、putation as a preacher. （ D） Through his attention to medicine. （ A） His ability to play the organ. （ B） His interest in medicine. （ C） His doctoral degrees in philosophy and music. （ D） His talents in preaching. （ A） His generous suggestions and help. （ B） His imprisonment in World War I. （ C） The
16、responsibility of helping others. （ D） His impact on Western civilization. （ A） He was a man full of responsibility for German citizens. （ B） He was a man with little courage to face the threat of war. （ C） He was an eccentric man who loves hot weather. （ D） He was a man of many talents with a sense
17、 of idealism. Section C 26 As long as the American land was not completely settled and the elements of【 B1】_order were not yet imposed on the frontier, the permanent American passion for looking to the future【 B2】 _prophetic brooding(沉思 )on material expansion and to great efforts to make those proph
18、ecies【 B3】 _. But with the closing of the frontier, interest in the future took a more human form. It became the【 B4】 _of the American men and women to provide a world in which life would be easier for the next generation. Psychologically, at least, the closing of the frontier meant a closing of the
19、【 B5】 _, since it was no longer possible to dismiss the problem of youths economic future with a brisk “Go West, young men, and grow up with the country“. As a result, providing a world in which young men and women could grow up in a fairly【 B6】_country became a constant national concern. It was ref
20、lected in the increasing interest in education and in the【 B7】 _in the size of the family. If, on the other hand, the old tradition survived that everybody, no matter how wealthy his parents, worked at home and earned a little money outside, it gradually came to be slightly【 B8】 _. When the merchant
21、s or the lawyers son made some extra money by delivering papers or cutting lawns, he was probably performing an act of discipline rather than a【 B9】 _economic function. The boy who was made to earn a dollar or two a week in such ways might all the while be arguing with vigor and【 B10】 _, for the rig
22、ht to a car of his own or to a free hand with the family car. 27 【 B1】 28 【 B2】 29 【 B3】 30 【 B4】 31 【 B5】 32 【 B6】 33 【 B7】 34 【 B8】 35 【 B9】 36 【 B10】 Section A 36 The local education authority compiled a list of “potential security problems“ on campus last week. They include fire accidents, traff
23、ic accidents, crime, bombing, stealing, social communication problems and【 C1】 _. “Though the ivory tower shuts out some dangers from the outside world, it is not a paradise【 C2】 _to crimes and accidents. School-safety has been in focus,“ said an official of the local Education Committee. In the fir
24、st six months of this year, 25 students were victims of【 C3】 _accidents or crimes and 10 students committed suicide. While numbers remain low, how can campuses be made safer places to live in? Making safety education compulsory is the governments answer. University students will soon receive compuls
25、ory classes. In the lessons, they will learn how to protect themselves by looking at real【 C4】 _on campus. For example, girls will learn when and where sexual harassment(骚扰 )is most【 C5】 _to happen. They will also get【 C6】 _on how to protect themselves, like not wearing mini skirts in crowded public
26、 places. Students should not only be aware of the dangers from the outside, but also those self-inflicted. Even though it【 C7】 _last in the list, it doesnt mean suicide is the least serious. The newspaper【 C8】 _a growing number of suicide attempts on September 15. Between May and July, three univers
27、ity students killed themselves by jumping from buildings. One girl left a note saying that she was “sick of life and【 C9】 _.“ In the safety course, students are given tips on how to cope with pressure. They are also encouraged to go to the school psychologists if they feel depressed. They will learn
28、 what to do if their classmates behave【 C10】 _because of depression. A)comes I)tips B)immune J)headlines C)perpetual K)likely D)depressed L)cases E)normally M)fatal F)abnormally N)escalates G)reflected O)suicides H)reported 37 【 C1】 38 【 C2】 39 【 C3】 40 【 C4】 41 【 C5】 42 【 C6】 43 【 C7】 44 【 C8】 45 【
29、 C9】 46 【 C10】 Section B 46 The Future Is Another Country A A couple of months or so after becoming Britains prime minister, David Cameron wanted a few tips from somebody who could tell him how it felt to be responsible for, and accountable to, many millions of people: people who expected things fro
30、m him, even though in most cases he would never shake their hands. B He turned not to a fellow head of government but to. Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and boss of Facebook, the phenomenally successful social network.(It announced that it had 500m users)In a well-publicised online video chat this mon
31、th, the two men swapped ideas about ways for networks to help governments. Was this just a political leader seeking a spot of help from the private sectoror was it more like diplomacy, a comparison of notes between the masters of two great nations? C In some ways, it might seem absurd to call Facebo
32、ok a state and Mr. Zuckerberg its governor. It has no land to defend; no police to enforce law and order; it does not have subjects, bound by a clear cluster of rights, obligations and cultural signals. Compared with citizenship of a country, membership is easy to acquire and give up. Nor do Faceboo
33、ks boss and his executives depend directly on the consent of an “electorate(选民 )“ that can unseat them. Technically, the only people they report to are the shareholders. D But many web-watchers do detect country-like features in Facebook. “It is a device that allows people to get together and contro
34、l their own destiny, much like a nation-stale,“ says David Post, a law professor at. Temple University. If that sounds like a flattering description of Facebooks “groups“(often rallying people with unusual habits and hatred), then it is worth recalling a classic definition of the modern nation-state
35、. As Benedict Anderson, a political scientist, put it, such polities are “imagined communities“ in which each person feels a bond with millions of anonymous fellow-citizens. In centuries past, people looked up to kings or bishops; but in an age of mass literacy and printing in non-official languages
36、, so Mr. Anderson argued, horizontal ties matter more. E So if newspapers and shabby paperbacks can create new social and political units, for which people toil and die, perhaps the latest forms of communication can do likewise. In his 2006 book “Code: Version 2.0“, a legal scholar, Lawrence Lessig
37、noted that online communities were transcending the limits of conventional states-and predicted that members of these communities would find it “difficult to stand neutral in this international space“. F To many, that forecast still smacks(带 味道 )of cyber-fantasy. But the rise of Facebook at least gi
38、ves pause for thought, If it were a physical nation, it would now be the third most populous on earth. Mr. Zuckerberg is confident there will be a billion users in a few years. Facebook is unprecedented not only in its scale but also in its ability to blur boundaries between the real and virtual wor
39、lds. A few years ago, online communities evoked fantasy games played by small, strange groups. But as technology made possible large virtual arenas like Second Life or World of Warcraft, an online game with millions of players, so the overlap between cyberspace and real human existence began to grow
40、. G From the users viewpoint, Facebook can feel a bit like a liberal polity: a space in which people air opinions, rally support and right wrongs. What about the view from the top? Is Facebook a place that needs governing, just as a country does? Brad Burnham of Union Square Ventures, a venture-capi
41、tal firm, has argued that the answer is yes. In the spirit of liberal politics, he thinks the job of Facebooks managers is to create a space in which citizens and firms feel comfortable investing their time and money to create things. H Facebook has certainly tried to guide the development of its on
42、line economy, almost in the way that governments seek to influence economic activity in the real world, through fiscal(财政的 )and monetary policy. Earlier this year the firm said it wanted applications running on its platform to accept its virtual currency, known as Facebook Credits. It argued that th
43、is was in the interests of Facebook users, who would no longer have to use different online currencies for different applications. But this made some developers angry, who resent the fact that Facebook takes a 30% cut on every transaction involving credits. I Like any ruling elite that knows it reli
44、es on the consent from the ruled, Facebook seeks advice from its members on questions of governance. It allows users to vote on proposed changes to its terms of service, and it holds online forums to collect views on future policies. And like any well-intentioned politicians, Facebook makes blunders
45、: its members were angry earlier this year by changes to its policy that made public some previously private information. If Mr. Zuckerberg achieves his goal of creating the worlds favourite “social utility“, he may need to give users a more formal saya bit like a constitution. J Experience shows th
46、at networks which neglect governance pay a price. Take MySpace, which was once much bigger than Facebook: its growth stalled a couple of years ago when its managers let the site become too disorderly. There is a thin line, it seems, between the freedom that spins creativity and a free-for-all. K As
47、Facebooks masters present it, their mission is just to make the world more open and connected and bring closer the “global village“ predicted in the 1960s by Marshall McLuhan, a futurologist they love. Their claim to be accelerators has some force. Facebooks success “raises a lot of issues that we t
48、hought were a generation away,“ says Edward Castronova, a professor at Indiana University. One of them is how much impact virtual economies and currencies will have on real world ones. L Facebook may also influence how governments supply services, and compete to provide them. For instance, the firm
49、allows members to use their Facebook profiles to log into other sites around the web, creating a sort of passport. A similar facility could help people on the move retain access to government services. And then there is the question of how social networks will change politics. Clearly, they help to stimulate discussion, and they let governments search and test proposals. When Messrs Cameron and Zuckerberg conferred, the main t
