1、大学英语六级（ 2013年 12月考试改革适用）模拟试卷 65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 Trend of Moving to Big Cities. You should write at least 150 words following the outline given below. Write your essay on Answer sheet 1. 1现在有许多人迁往大城市 2对于这种做法人们看
2、法不一 3我的观点 On the Trend of Moving to Big Cities Section A （ A） Surprise parties are annoying. （ B） She dislikes to buy any birthday gifts. （ C） The man can celebrate his birthday in his way. （ D） Whatever she does is for the mans birthday. （ A） He is taking a sick leave. （ B） He replied the mans e-ma
3、ils. （ C） He didnt show for the lecture. （ D） He is assigned to another post. （ A） Order Chinese food. （ B） Eat some cookies. （ C） Have some fruit salad. （ D） Start cooking dinner. （ A） The vending machine is popular. （ B） The snacks are really delicious. （ C） The woman has bad eating habit. （ D） Th
4、e man is indifferent and cold. （ A） Take more core courses. （ B） Register for optional courses. （ C） Quit her present courses. （ D） Try again a week later. （ A） She dreams of graduating. （ B） They should join the celebration. （ C） Some sleep will help them a lot. （ D） They should focus on the exam.
5、（ A） The reduction of negative feelings. （ B） The effect of background music. （ C） The unpleasant nature of reports. （ D） The choices of leisure activities. （ A） Read the poster more carefully. （ B） Get registered immediately. （ C） Visit the university personally. （ D） Learn more about the program.
6、（ A） A letter of recommendation. （ B） Essay writing. （ C） Scholarship application. （ D） Ethnic minorities. （ A） Because she is Asian American. （ B） Because she is recommended by her teacher. （ C） Because she is an excellent student. （ D） Because she is a member of the Association. （ A） An essay in h
7、andwriting. （ B） An essay based on a particular question. （ C） An essay in four pages. （ D） An essay concerning Democratic Society. （ A） Contact with the Association. （ B） Type the essay for her. （ C） Give a topic for her essay. （ D） Write a letter of recommendation. （ A） More and more kids become o
8、verweight in the nation. （ B） The parents often play toys together with the kids. （ C） More calories can be burned off by kids than adults. （ D） The running machine is the best thing to keep fit. （ A） To calculate calories. （ B） To get kids playing on the couch. （ C） To encourage the kids. （ D） To g
9、et kids taking exercise. （ A） It is active. （ B） It is needful. （ C） It is wonderful. （ D） It is beautiful. Section B （ A） Students do a lot of drills and tests. （ B） Teachers offer a lot of information on grammar. （ C） It usually takes place in traditional classrooms. （ D） The main form of teaching
10、 is lectures. （ A） Being surrounded by native speakers. （ B） Being tolerated when making mistakes. （ C） Making a lot of mistakes at the beginning. （ D） Learning the sound before knowing the meaning. （ A） They listed the languages they use. （ B） They learned a created language. （ C） They told how the
11、y learn a language. （ D） They identified the most suitable learning method. （ A） Grammar. （ B） Vocabulary. （ C） Speaking. （ D） Translation. （ A） It receives much help from developed countries. （ B） It develops faster in countries south of Sahara Desert. （ C） It partly owes its great increase to the
12、world bank. （ D） It revolutionalized every aspect of African people live. （ A） Because he doesnt have enough money. （ B） Because he only does one-dollar transfer. （ C） Because there is no bank in his neighborhood. （ D） Because he has no stable-income job. （ A） It can make more people read. （ B） It c
13、an improve teacher-student relationship. （ C） It can ease the condition of sex discrimination. （ D） It can draw more people to study mobile technology. （ A） Because it was discovered after Mount Everest. （ B） Because most of the mountain is underwater. （ C） Because a volcano cant be counted as a rea
14、l mountain. （ D） Because it locates on the island in the ocean. （ A） It has the longest history of record. （ B） It produces the largest amount of lava. （ C） It is the only active one on the island. （ D） It covers more than half of the island. （ A） They raise the temperature. （ B） They enlarge the ar
15、ea. （ C） They attract many tourists. （ D） They pollute the atmosphere. Section C 26 I spent a good part of the last three weeks helping a young friend look for an apartment, and the experience was revealing. Among other things, it made me realize that so much has changed in the city where I【 B1】 _an
16、d have lived most of my life that I【 B2】 _know it. The experience also showed the crucial role of computers even in such fundamental activities as finding【 B3】 _. And it revealed, finally, the pressure that the current economy has【 B4】 _the stock of available rental property. My friend is in her ear
17、ly twenties,【 B5】 _and intelligent, a visual artist by training. She has been renting an apartment on the twenty-third floor of a building overlooking Lake Michigan with a spectacular view of Chicagos【 B6】_skyscrapers(摩天大楼 ). Views, though, even magnificent ones, will take a person just so far. She
18、has felt isolated in this apartment, and【 B7】 _live in a livelier neighborhood among her contemporaries. Her first choice of neighborhood was one located in the north central part of the city. I knew it but had not been there for many years. My fathers place of business, a one-floor factory【 B8】 _co
19、stume jewelry, was located in Wicker Park when I worked for him as a boy. Her demands were【 B9】 _enough: She was looking for a two-bedroom apartment, with hardwood floors, a secure parking space, a safe neighborhood and【 B10】 _light. Central air-conditioning and an in-unit washer and dryer would be
20、nice, but not absolutely essential. She had between $ 1,200 and $ 1,500 a month to spend on rent, and five weeks in which to find a place. 27 【 B1】 28 【 B2】 29 【 B3】 30 【 B4】 31 【 B5】 32 【 B6】 33 【 B7】 34 【 B8】 35 【 B9】 36 【 B10】 Section A 36 Ive twice been to college admissions wars, and as I surve
21、y the battlefield, something different is happening. Its one upmanship among parents. We see our kids college【 C1】 _as trophies(战利品 )attesting to how well weve raised them. But we cant acknowledge that our obsession is more about us than them. So weve contrived various【 C2】 _that turn out to be half
22、 truths, prejudices or myths. We have a full blown prestige panic; we worry that there wont be enough trophies to go around. Fearful parents urge their children to apply to more schools than ever. Underlying the hysteria is the belief that scarce【 C3】 _degrees must be highly valuable. Their graduate
23、s must enjoy more success because they get a better education and develop better contacts. All thats【 C4】 _and mostly wrong. Selective schools dont systematically【 C5】 _better instructional approaches than less-selective schools. Some do; some dont. On two measuresprofessors feedback and the number
24、of essay examsselective schools do slightly worse. By some studies, selective schools do enhance their graduates lifetime earnings. The gain is reckoned at 2 percent to 4 percent for every 100 point increase in a schools average SAT scores. But even this advantage is probably a【 C6】 _fluke(偶然；侥幸 ).
25、A well known study by Princeton economist Alan Krueger and Stacy Berg Dale of Mathematica Policy Research examined students who got into highly selective schools and then went elsewhere. They earned just as much as graduates from other schools. Kids count more than their colleges. Getting into Yale
26、may【 C7】 _intelligence, talent and ambition. But its not the only indicator and,【 C8】 _, its significance is declining. The reason; so many similar people go elsewhere. Getting into college isnt lifes only competition. In the next competitionthe job market, graduate schoolthe results may change. Old
27、 boy networks are breaking down. Krueger studied admissions to one top Ph. D. program. High scores on the Graduate Record Exam helped explain who got in; Ivy League degrees didnt. So, parents, lighten up. The stakes have been vastly exaggerated. Up to a point, we can【 C9】 _our pushiness(一意孤行 ). Amer
28、ica is a competitive society; our kids need to adjust to that. But too much pushiness can be【 C10】 _. The very ambition we impose on our children may get some into Harvard but may also set them up for disappointment. One study of students 20 years out found that, other things being equal, graduates
29、of highly selective schools experienced more job dissatisfaction. They may have been so conditioned to being on top that anything less disappoints. A)advantageous I)manipulate B)contrarily J)meditate C)destructive K)plausible D)elite L)ranks E)employ M)rationalize F)junction N)signify G)justificatio
30、ns O)statistical H)literally 37 【 C1】 38 【 C2】 39 【 C3】 40 【 C4】 41 【 C5】 42 【 C6】 43 【 C7】 44 【 C8】 45 【 C9】 46 【 C10】 Section B 46 10 Ways Obama Could Fight Climate Change AOne of the biggest surprises of President Barack Obamas inaugural address on Monday was how much he focused on fighting clima
31、te change, spending more time on that issue than any other. “ We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations,“ Obama said. The President pointed out that recent severe weather supplied an urgent impetus for energy i
32、nnovation and staked the nations economic future on responding to a changing climate. “ We cannot cede to other nations the technology that will power new jobs and new industrieswe must claim its promise,“ Obama said. “ Thats how we will maintain our economic vitality and our national treasureour fo
33、rests and waterways; our croplands and snowcapped(山顶积雪的 )peaks. That is how we will preserve our planet, commanded to our care by God. “ So what could the President reasonably do to deliver on that vow? Here are ten of their suggestions: Sunset coal with new incentives and regulations. B“Provide inc
34、entives to phase out the oldest, most polluting power plants,“ said Robert Jackson, a climate scientist at Duke University. Its already happening, to some degree, as more of the nation transitions to natural gas. Earth scientist Bill Chameides, dean of Dukes Nicholas School of the Environment and a
35、former chief scientist at the Environmental Defense Fund, urges the administration to use its Clean Air Act authority to promulgate(颁布 )carbon regulations for existing power plants like it has for new ones: “ Doing that will force fuel switching from coal to natural gas. “ Invest federal stimulus mo
36、ney in nuclear power. CIts hardly a perfect fuel, as accidents like Japans Fukushima fallout have shown, but with safety precautions new nuclear plants can meaningfully offset dirtier types of energy, supporters say. “Nuclear is the only shortto medium-term way to really get away from fossil fuels,“
37、 said Peter Raven, President emeritus of the Missouri Botanical Garden. He said the damage done by relentless global warming will far exceed the damage done by faults in the nuclear system. Kill the Keystone pipeline. DThe controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline is up for review again by the White Ho
38、use this year. “ The first thing he should do to set the tone to a lower carbon economy is to reject the Keystone pipeline,“ said Raymond Pierrehumbert, a geophysical scientist at the University of Chicago. The pipeline was never going to be a major driver of global emissions, but Pierrehumbert and
39、some other environmentalists say that by killing it the President would send a clear message about Americas intent to ramp down fossil fuels. Protect the oceans by executive order. ELand use is complicated, but large swaths of oceans can be protected by executive order. Just as President George W. B
40、ush designated the worlds largest marine monument northwest of Hawaii in 2006, Obama could single-handedly protect other areas. National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Sylvia Earle said the President should focus on parts of the Arctic that are under U. S. control, putting them off limits to energ
41、y production, commercial fishing, and mineral exploration. Marine sanctuaries(禁捕区 )wont stop climate change, but they can give marine species a better chance of adapting to it by reducing the other man-made threats the animals face. Experiment with capturing carbon. FHuge untapped reserves of natura
42、l gas and oil make it unlikely that the U. S. will transition away from fossil fuels in the immediate future. Instead, said Wallace Broecker, geology professor at Columbia Universitys Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, we should attack the atmospheres carbon surplus directly. “Obama could make availa
43、ble funds to build and test prototype air capture units“ to capture and store CO2, said Broecker. Removing some carbon from the atmosphere could buy valuable time as policy makers and scientists explore more permanent solutions. Grow government research for new energy sources. GThe Department of Ene
44、rgy has a nimble program thats tasked with innovative energy researchthe Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy. The ARPA-E funds research in biofuels, transmission, and battery storage, with an annual budget of $275 million. Last year, DOE officials requested at least $75 million more. Increasing
45、 funding for ARPA-E, said Rafe Pomerance, former deputy assistant secretary of state for environment and development and currently an environmental consultant, “ you get new technologies that undercut coal, oil, and gas. “ Plus, he said, you get a competitive advantage if American researchers uncove
46、r the next big idea in new energy. Tax carbon. HCongress would have to agree, but many climate experts say that the most meaningful way to tackle emissions is to set a price on carbon. “ We should be asking people to pay the cost of putting carbon into the atmosphere as they buy the fuel,“ said Josh
47、 Willis, climate scientist and oceanographer at NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory. To gain political support for the idea, Obama would probably have to show that the tax would help accelerate technology, grow new industries, and pay down the deficit. Dial back the federal governments energy use. IWith
48、 more than 1. 8 million employees, $500 billion in annual purchasing power, and 500,000 buildings to operate, the federal government has been a leader in reducing energy use since Obama signed a 2009 executive order to cut waste. “ I would urge him to keep using the power of government to promote en
49、ergy conservation,“ said Syndonia Bret-Harte, an Arctic biologist who studies climate change at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. Build a scientific clearinghouse for climate information. J“I advocate for building a better information system on what is happening and why,“ said Kevin Trenberth, head of the Climate Analysis Section at the U. S. National Center for Atmospheric Research. That involves compiling observations
