1、大学英语六级（ 2013年 12月考试改革适用）模拟试卷 52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“Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed. “ You can cite examples to illustrate your point. You should write at least 150 words but n
2、o more than 200 words. Section A （ A） Families with cars. （ B） Americans heavy dependence on cars. （ C） Roads and highways. （ D） Traffic problems in America. （ A） Pay for the meal. （ B） Look for her wallet. （ C） Quickly buy a new wallet in a store. （ D） Come out just as soon as she takes her wallet.
3、 （ A） Arguing. （ B） Protesting. （ C） Complaining. （ D） Bargaining. （ A） Tony always speaks too fast. （ B） Tonys speech is always not clear. （ C） Tony always doesnt come to the point. （ D） Tony always speaks with strong accent. （ A） He welcomes the woman telephoning at any time. （ B） He will telephon
4、e the woman as often as he can. （ C） He is not that far away if the woman wants to visit. （ D） He doesnt believe that the woman will really miss him. （ A） The man will take the apartment. （ B） The man will not sleep well. （ C） The apartment is not good. （ D） The man will find an apartment elsewhere.
5、 （ A） Her daughter isnt in her class. （ B） She isnt related to the student. （ C） She doesnt think that she looks like the student. （ D） The student shouldnt have looked at her like that. （ A） All the passengers were killed. （ B） The plane crashed in the night. （ C） Its too late to search for survivo
6、rs. （ D） No more survivors have been found. （ A） To see and talk to a friend. （ B） To cash his travelers checks. （ C） To go to the bank and repair the computer. （ D） To go to the bank and save some money. （ A） He is from Germany. （ B） He is from Europe. （ C） He is from Britain. （ D） He is from Ameri
7、ca. （ A） Traveling around the Europe. （ B） Having a rest after a days work. （ C） Going on business trip. （ D） Working in their company. （ A） Where to buy beautiful clothes. （ B） Where to have great food. （ C） Where to buy bus system. （ D） Where to find cheap restaurants. （ A） To find out what he is
8、interested in. （ B） To help him choose an out-of-class activity. （ C） To encourage him to try out for a college newsletter. （ D） To talk about the articles he wrote in his journalism class. （ A） He couldnt write for a newspaper. （ B） He would fall behind with his studies. （ C） He wouldnt find a good
9、 dormitory. （ D） He would lose contact with his old friends. （ A） He is not sure whether hell have time to write for the newsletter. （ B） He would rather write for a newspaper than the campus newsletter. （ C） He doubts whether he is able to write for the campus newsletter. （ D） He is worried about w
10、hat his journalism professor really thinks. Section B （ A） Their performance may improve. （ B） Their immune system may be reinforced. （ C） Their blood pressure may rise all of a sudden. （ D） Their physical development may be enhanced. （ A） Improved mental functioning. （ B） Increased susceptibility t
11、o disease. （ C） Speeding up of blood circulation. （ D） Reduction of stress-related hormones. （ A） Pretend to be in better shape. （ B） Have more physical exercise. （ C） Turn more often to friends for help. （ D） Pay more attention to bodily sensations. （ A） Different approaches to coping with stress.
12、（ B） Various causes for serious health problems. （ C） The relationship between stress and illness. （ D） New findings of medical research on stress. （ A） Competition in business. （ B） Government grants. （ C） A type of economic policy. （ D） International transportation practices. （ A） American industr
13、ialists. （ B） French economists. （ C） International leaders. （ D） Civil War veterans. （ A） The rights of private business owners should be protected. （ B） The government shouldnt interfere in private business. （ C） Politicians should support industrial growth. （ D） Competition among companies should
14、 be restricted. （ A） Radiation from the sun. （ B） Radiation from the Van Allen Belts. （ C） Radiation from the Van Allen Belts and from the meteors. （ D） Radiation from the sun and from the Van Allen Belts. （ A） Any astronaut returning from the universe is safe. （ B） Any astronaut returning from the
15、universe suffers a lot. （ C） We can assume an astronaut is safe though he seems ill. （ D） We cannot assume an astronaut is safe though he looks well. （ A） Men on the Earth are protected by the atmosphere. （ B） Radiation only have short-term effects on men on the Earth. （ C） The Earth is quite far fr
16、om the radiation areas. （ D） The Van Allen Belts absorb all radiation. Section C 26 People born in the autumn live longer than those born in the spring. And they are less likely to fall【 B1】 _ill when they are older, according to an Austrian scientist. The scientists at the Max Planck Institute for
17、Demographic Research made such【 B2】_by using census data for more than one million people in Austria, Denmark and Australia. They found that the month of birth【 B3】 _life expectancy over the age of 50. Seasonal differences in what mothers ate during pregnancy, and infections occurring at different t
18、imes of the year could both【 B4】 _the health of a new-born baby and could influence its life【 B5】 _in older age. “A mother giving birth in spring spends the last【 B6】 _of her pregnancy in winter, when she will eat less vitamins than in summer,“ said Gabriele Doblhammer, one of a team of scientists w
19、ho carried out the research. “When she stops breast-feeding and starts giving her baby【 B7】 _food, its in the hot weeks of summer when babies【 B8】_infections of the digestive system.“ In Austria, adults born in autumn lived about seven months longer than those born in spring, and in Denmark outlived
20、 by about four months. In the southern hemisphere, the picture was【 B9】 _. Adults born in the Australian autumn lived about 4 months longer than those born in the Australian spring. The study focused on people born at the beginning of the 20th century. “Although nutrition at all times of the year ha
21、s improved since then, the【 B10】 _pattern persists,“ Doblhammer said. 27 【 B1】 28 【 B2】 29 【 B3】 30 【 B4】 31 【 B5】 32 【 B6】 33 【 B7】 34 【 B8】 35 【 B9】 36 【 B10】 Section A 36 An unidentified wit once said, “Laugh, and the world laughs with you. Snore, and you sleep alone.“ Yet snoring is far from a l
22、aughing matter, as those unfortunates with good hearing, who are rightly【 C1】 _to the sounds of the snoring disorder, will testify. It has been estimated that one of eight Americans snores: this means that there are approximately 21 million people women as well as men who render an【 C2】_sound when t
23、hey are asleep. And assuming that each snorer disturbs the sleep of at least one other person, it【 C3】 _follows that there are 21 million unhappy listeners. While a sleeping person breathes, either in or out, several structures in his nose and throat【 C4】 _the snoring. The sounds, coming from the so
24、ft palate(腭 )and other soft structures of the throat, are caused by vibratory responses to inflowing and outflowing air. When the soft tissues of the mouth and throat come close to the lining of the throat, the vibrations(振动的 )that occur are caused by the position of the tongue. In short, the noise
25、made by snoring can be【 C5】 _to the noise when breezes flutter a flag on a pole. The【 C6】 _of the vibrations depends on the size,【 C7】_and elasticity of the affected tissues and on the【 C8】 _of the air flow. Although it is usually the process of inhaling or exhaling through the mouth that cause snor
26、ing, short snores come from the nose of an open-mouthed sleeper. In all fairness to snorers, however, it should be emphasised that snoring is an【 C9】 _act which stops as the offender is【 C10】 _. A)involuntary I)incur B)density J)compared C)necessarily K)sequence D)unpleasant L)frequency E)force M)sp
27、eed F)unexpected N)generally G)subjected O)generate H)awakened 37 【 C1】 38 【 C2】 39 【 C3】 40 【 C4】 41 【 C5】 42 【 C6】 43 【 C7】 44 【 C8】 45 【 C9】 46 【 C10】 Section B 46 We Must Train People to Break the Rules ALay out the entrails, read omens and auguries, study the heavens, shake your hoary locks lik
28、e an ancient seer. Signs and portents bring us messages, and we should heed them ere civilization crumbles. BOff Hope Cove, on the Devon coast, a crew of strong, experienced men has saved a girls life with minutes to spare, only to find itself “disciplined“ because the only boat available was classi
29、fied as an “additional facility awaiting inspection“. Earlier and farther inland, see two more strong men standing helplessly in their luminous Police Community Support uniforms, wittering into radios because they lacked the correct certificates to try to rescue a drowning boy. CElsewhere, a coastgu
30、ard resigned after saving a 13-year-old dangling from a cliff. He failed to fetch and buckle on his own safety harness, and immediately found himself in trouble from bosses droning that they “dont want dead heroes“. DMeanwhile a thousand small habitual practices from cake stalls to carpentry classes
31、 find themselves under heavy reproof and restraint. And in a hospital ward somewhere a dying, frail old man repeatedly falls out of bed because nurses reckon that they cant put up the sides of the bed without a “risk assessment“, in case they breach his “human rights“ and “unlawfully imprison“ him.
32、EA frantic family tries to get a telephone line reconnected to a remote Welsh hillside where a man has had a stroke, and meet only call-centre shrugs because they dont have the account number off the bill: a neighbour phones the weekend “on-call“ doctor service about an ailing nonagenarian neighbour
33、, to be told by the doctor that nothing can be done until they give the victims correct postcode and date of birth. FAn amateur dramatic group has to find lock-up storage for two plastic toy swords: and in Huddersfield, citizens have to barricade the road before Binmen will take away rubbish bags th
34、at didnt fit correctly into the wheelie bins, although the surplus is entirely due to the said Binmen having been on strike and omitting the last collection. GFrom distant California, thanks to Times online message boards, comes the echo of a voice from the Ancient World. Jim from El Centro responde
35、d to the Hope Cove rescue story at the weekend with a quotation from Marcus Tullius Cicero: “A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures, which bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not p
36、etty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority in which he delights, as a boy delights in possessing a vicious dog. Who can trust such creatures?“ HSomething is wrong. We read too many stories about this craven, inhuman, poltroonish cowering behin
37、d rules and routines, and about individuals who get into trouble for momentarily breaching them in the name of humanity or sense. I take issue with Cicero and Jim a little, though it is too easy to rage at bureaucracy itself and join in thoughtless jeering at “suits“. Even Cicero accepts that effici
38、ent administration is necessary: it gets things done and distributed, and is a bulwark against chaos. So 1 think we have to choose our targets more carefully, and unpick more precisely the evil threads that make us so uneasy and unhappy and desperate to stick to rules in defiance of common sense and
39、 kindness. II would diagnose it as insecurity, linked to a misunderstanding of the concept of “training“(which, incidentally, links straight back to the culture of unintelligent testing in schools). Depressed, anxious people always prefer to stick to rules rather than think for themselves: at the ex
40、treme they lapse into obsessive-compulsive disorder, forever washing their hands and touching wood. Depressed, anxious institutions such as the Maritime and Coastguard Authority, National Health Service management(and quite a few call centres)display this pathology on a corporate level. You get the
41、“training“, tick the right multiple-choice boxes and refuse to think that there might be another choice, not listed. You feel safer that way, like a troubled child determined not to colour outside the lines. JYet this is the opposite of real training, as practised for years in real armies, navies, l
42、aboratories and institutions. Real training lays down a framework of expertise and safety not to prevent initiative, but to free it. If you really know the rules and understand their purpose, you can judge when to make an exception and break them. KA nurse should be able to think(as some no doubt do
43、): “Right, the patient is confused and rolling about, and might get hurt, Ill put up the sides of the bed and keep an eye on things, and have a word with the relatives later to explain.“ LThe boat crew should feel free to think(as they did): “The big lifeboat isnt going to be in time, we know our ow
44、n boats safe even though it hasnt got the certificate yet, and if we do get into trouble its worth a try to save a life go for it!“ The dustmen should say: “OK, so there are bags lying beside the wheelie bins in contravention of council regulations, but thatll be because of the strike, isnt it? Chuc
45、k them in.“ MThe NHS or telecom call-centre staff should be alert not only to the list of correct procedures on the wall, but to the note of panic in the distant voice. NEmployees should be allowed to be people too: and a good bureaucrat should feel safe to judge which value scored highest at the cr
46、itical moment. We all see examples of this gentle accommodation every day. But we also know that those who break small rules for human values run a real risk, because of that corporate anxiety and depression. It is brought on by soulless micromanagement from the top and a culture that assumes the ci
47、tizen is a moron. Keeping the balance is not always easy: but hell, human life is a tightrope and always has been. Certainly the reckless rule-breakers should be curbed or sacked: but so should the stupidly rigid bureaucrats. OCant leave you on that gloomy note. So rejoice: 125 miles out in the dark
48、 North Sea, in the excellent Tall Ships Race, 13 crew(mainly teenage)have just been rescued from the flooded cutter Clyde Challenger by the(mainly teenage)crew of a fellow-competitor, the Norwegian ketch Loyal. I am sure that they all obeyed the rules: perish the thought that they wouldnt. But if th
49、ey had to break a few, good luck to them. 47 A good weapon to prevent chaos is efficient administration. 48 Instead of thinking for themselves, the depressed, anxious people prefer to stick to rules. 49 The purpose of real training is to, but not to prevent it from free initiative. 50 The stupidly rigid bureaucrats should be curbed or sacked. 51 Marcus Tullius Cicero compared bureaucrats to vultures. 52 The N
