1、大学英语六级（ 2013年 12月考试改革适用）模拟试卷 56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 On the Importance of Social Responsibility. You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words. Write your essay on Answer Sheet 1. 1现在的年轻人都在关注如何过好自己的生活，不愿意
2、关注社会民生 2有人赞同这样的做法，有人觉得不应该如此 3你的看法 Section A （ A） She had the cooker changed. （ B） She had her cooker repaired. （ C） She bought a new cooker. （ D） She returned her new cooker. （ A） The situation is not Anns fault. （ B） Neither Ann nor Mark is telling the truth. （ C） The truth needs deeper investigati
3、on. （ D） Someone must be lying in this incident （ A） Find her way around. （ B） Enjoy herself fully. （ C） Remember the culture. （ D） See the differences. （ A） She has a pain in her neck. （ B） She is very busy with work. （ C） She prefers the man do it. （ D） She works as a doctor. （ A） They are rude. （
4、 B） They are polite. （ C） They are forgetful. （ D） They are friendly. （ A） He doubts the woman will like the book. （ B） He hasnt started reading the book yet. （ C） He enjoyed reading the stories. （ D） He wanted to put the book down. （ A） Buy the car from the man. （ B） Paint the mans car. （ C） Buy a
5、new car. （ D） Look for a less expensive car. （ A） The jobs have already been filled. （ B） The woman can start her work at once. （ C） The woman isnt qualified for any of the jobs. （ D） The woman must hand in her application quickly. （ A） He wanted her to apply for another visa. （ B） He hasnt seen her
6、 for a long time. （ C） He wanted to tell her the visas been granted. （ D） He was eager to send her the application form. （ A） There are too many people living there. （ B） The cost of living there is relatively high. （ C） It has frequent natural disasters. （ D） The weather there is pleasant. （ A） To
7、research the climate. （ B） To visit her relatives. （ C） To get her health certificate. （ D） To finish graduate courses. （ A） He had to attend Prof. Smiths lecture. （ B） He had to go to see the dentist. （ C） He had to wait for an emergency call. （ D） He had to do some research on volcanoes. （ A） They
8、 are very dangerous to the nearby community. （ B） They can bring rare materials to the surface. （ C） They produce more heat to the ocean. （ D） They can prevent the ice sheet from melting. （ A） She knows a lot about active volcanoes. （ B） She works as an assistant for the professor. （ C） She seems no
9、t very familiar with the lecture. （ D） She is eager to learn more about the globe. （ A） The water will flow south. （ B） The sea level will rise. （ C） The ocean will become more acid. （ D） The floods will destroy cities. Section B （ A） Water might become clean and pure. （ B） People will live in a bet
10、ter environment. （ C） There will be no police to protect people. （ D） People need to spend more money on education. （ A） To build hospitals and schools. （ B） To build roads and railways. （ C） To train the police officers. （ D） To teach and train the citizens. （ A） Some people refuse to pay taxes. （
11、B） The rich people pay higher taxes. （ C） Every citizen has a duty to pay taxes. （ D） The taxes are used to make laws. （ A） They were made only three times in Earths history. （ B） The most beautiful diamond comes from Africa. （ C） They are even harder than those saw blades. （ D） The hardness of diam
12、onds depends on the purity. （ A） The cutting of diamonds needs to have some changes. （ B） The environment of making diamonds has changed. （ C） The composition of rocks is the same as it used to. （ D） The demand for diamonds has increased recently. （ A） 3.3 billion years ago. （ B） 2.9 billion years a
13、go. （ C） 1.2 billion years ago. （ D） 2.1 billion years ago. （ A） They were the most terrible disaster on earth. （ B） They were warning signs of some big events. （ C） They were turnovers of the big dragons. （ D） They were punishment from an angry god. （ A） The surface of the earth is made up by 12 hu
14、ge plates. （ B） The surface is the most important part of the earth. （ C） We can now tell where and when earthquakes will happen. （ D） Our earth is made up by some oceans and lands. （ A） It will have more earthquakes. （ B） It is becoming larger slowly. （ C） It is divided by a large plate. （ D） It wi
15、ll become even deeper. （ A） It is the meeting point of the Pacific and the North American Plates. （ B） It runs a length of roughly 1906 kilometers through California. （ C） It is one of the longest and most active faults in the world. （ D） It once caused the largest earthquake in the world. Section C
16、 26 The home is the central focus of most young peoples lives in Britain, particularly for those who are still attending school. The majority【 B1】 _their home environment as a place of security and upon their parents as the main providers of food, money and other【 B2】 _of life as well as general adv
17、ice. Young people spend【 B3】 _their leisure time at home with other members of their family or with friends. After the home, school is the main social environment where children not only receive their formal education but also develop their identities within peer groups. All school children in Brita
18、in are encouraged to take up activities which complement their academic and【 B4】 _education and help to identify their【 B5】 _talent, such as sports, drama, music and creative pursuits. Many of these form part of the school curricula The Youth Service in Britain also【 B6】 _the personal development an
19、d informal social education of young people aged from 11 to 25. The Service is a partnership between law【 B7】 _and a large number of voluntary organizations. A recent survey estimated that nearly 6 million young people in this age group are either【 B8】 _or past participants in the Service. Youth clu
20、bs and centers are the most common types of Youth Service provision, encouraging their members to participate in sport, cultural and creative activities, and【 B9】 _. Some also provide information and counseling. Youth clubs may be branches of national or international bodies or they may be【 B10】 _lo
21、cal institutions. Many foundations and trusts provide finance for activities, which develop the potential talents of Britains youth. 27 【 B1】 28 【 B2】 29 【 B3】 30 【 B4】 31 【 B5】 32 【 B6】 33 【 B7】 34 【 B8】 35 【 B9】 36 【 B10】 Section A 36 As the world excitedly greeted Snuppy, the first cloned(克隆 )dog
22、, commentators celebrated our cleverness. Many feel proud that our age is marked by technological【 C1】 _. But an article in British newspaper The Observer recently said true innovation has【 C2】 _from our society. The writer was Peter Watson, author of the book Ideas-A History from Fire to Freud. Wat
23、son began: “The year 2005 cant begin to compete with 1905 in terms of【 C3】_innovations.“ “Writing a history of ideas over the past three years, I have been【 C4】 _time and again by the fact that, contrary to what we tell ourselves all the time on TV, in newspapers and magazines, in【 C5】 _and in gover
24、nment propaganda our present world is nowhere near as【 C6】 _and innovative as it thinks it is, certainly in comparison with past ages. “Yes, we are dazzled by mobile phones, cameras, digital TV, and the www, by laser-guided surgery and bombs, by DNA fingerprinting, and now by cloning. These are not【
25、 C7】 _things but do they change the way we think in important in fundamental directions?“ Watson quotes Richard Southern, Oxford University historian, who died last year: “Southern thought the most interesting times in history were 1050-1250 and 1750-1950.“ “Each of these periods transformed our und
26、erstanding of ourselves【 C8】 _“. “But what great ideas or transformations have been【 C9】 _in the half-century since 1950?“ Watson asked, pointing out that except for a few innovations such as the Internet, most scientific research【 C10】 _modifies previous studies. A)rarely B)introduced C)merely D)in
27、timate E)distributed F)important G)advances H)statistics I)radically J)struck K)disappeared L)small M)interesting N)advertising O)pessimistic 37 【 C1】 38 【 C2】 39 【 C3】 40 【 C4】 41 【 C5】 42 【 C6】 43 【 C7】 44 【 C8】 45 【 C9】 46 【 C10】 Section B 46 Can Tony Blair Save the World of Books? AAt the beginn
28、ing 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 with index, acknowledgments and 32 pages of photographic plates.
29、 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. Ive not seen anything this big since Harry Potter or Dan Brown
30、. 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 significant ebook and audiobook sale. What matters is that a f
31、at 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 for 2“; and other hints of the death of print: audiobooks and a
32、dvertisements 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 public is adopting the ebook with the enthusiasm of a great cons
33、umer 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 disturbing because its so hard to interpret, with competing diagn
34、oses. 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 UK, clings on in the US. Here, Waterstones parent company, HMV,
35、 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 end of this year, 10.3 million Americans are expected to own e-
36、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 few people would dispute that its a matter of time before the e
37、book 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 prepared: even the Oxford English Dictionary is now conceding that
38、 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 ebooks it sells. Within the book trade itself, all the main pla
39、yers(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 many traditional publishers privately say that printed books
40、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 wrought on the music industry by downloading. Who knows? Heres
41、 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 book market(dictionaries, encyclopedias)is “certain to go online
42、“. 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 daughters bookshelves, and launches into the old defence of ink a
43、nd 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 Will Self whose Walking to Hollywood, an introduction for the m
44、ovie 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 physical similarity I think the text loses its weight.“ Self confe
45、sses 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, a mother of two, hesitated to buy Blair. This would be a depa
46、rture 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 tempted? “Ive been thinking about buying the Kindle, but it would
47、 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 something about having a book in bed, about holding it, even sme
48、lling 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 contained no fewer than three separate items about the death of print
49、. 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 are 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 usu
