1、大学英语六级（ 2013年 12月考试改革适用）模拟试卷 67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 My View on Spending Craze During Graduation by commenting on the phenomenon that graduates often spend a lot during the graduation period. You should write at least 150
2、 words but no more than 200 words. Write your essay on Answer sheet 1. My View on Spending Craze During Graduation Section A （ A） Because he prefers something hot. （ B） Because he likes tea better. （ C） Because he needs some coffee. （ D） Because he has to drive home. （ A） Put on more clothes. （ B） L
3、eave her office early. （ C） Get more physical exercises. （ D） Go home on foot. （ A） His experience as a college student. （ B） His suggestion on course selection. （ C） His way of arranging his life. （ D） His solution on failing a course. （ A） The stereo is extraordinary. （ B） The neighbors should be
4、invited. （ C） Policemen enjoy parties too. （ D） Last party was disturbing. （ A） Their daughters mental condition. （ B） Their grandsons injury in the accident. （ C） Their communication with their children. （ D） Their registration of the. counseling session. （ A） They didnt get the phone bill in time.
5、 （ B） They cant afford to pay the phone bill. （ C） They find a mistake in the phone bill. （ D） They cant get the International Call Service. （ A） Because he is not interested in the project. （ B） Because he is too busy to spare some time. （ C） Because he will leave on a business trip soon. （ D） Beca
6、use he needs time to get to know the project. （ A） The watch is broken. （ B） She will be off duty soon. （ C） She needs to serve the lady first. （ D） The lady has bought it. （ A） He wants to join the Olympic Volunteers League. （ B） He wants to look for jobs in the near future. （ C） He doesnt want to
7、be too busy. （ D） He wants to get scholarships. （ A） Its members can spend times together at weekends. （ B） It is connected with the speakers major. （ C） It holds activities such as speeches and competitions. （ D） It requires good language skills of volunteers. （ A） It is useful. （ B） It is boring.
8、（ C） It is special. （ D） It is popular. （ A） Flight reservation. （ B） Physical examination. （ C） English training certificate. （ D） Job application. （ A） She has vision problems. （ B） She is in good health. （ C） She is in a weakened condition. （ D） She is out of condition. （ A） A hostess. （ B） An En
9、glish teacher. （ C） A nurse. （ D） A taxi driver. （ A） Its hard for her to tell others when she doesnt like their behaviors. （ B） It is difficult for her to use gestures or draw pictures to communicate. （ C） She cant make herself understood in English easily. （ D） She cant see clearly because of her
10、vision problems. Section B （ A） History of building and architecture. （ B） Story of mans progress. （ C） Architectural style. （ D） Basic principles of architecture. （ A） They could get protection from wild beasts. （ B） They wanted to move around easily. （ C） Natural shelters were very uncomfortable.
11、（ D） Permanent dwellings were easy to construct. （ A） Functional and beautiful buildings. （ B） Buildings that can shelter from bad weather. （ C） Buildings that can satisfy peoples aesthetic desires. （ D） Tall buildings with beautiful decoration. （ A） The principle of function. （ B） The enclosing of
12、space. （ C） Protecting people from beasts. （ D） Artistic expression. （ A） The windows. （ B） The front door. （ C） The living room. （ D） The back door. （ A） Having doors with glass in them. （ B） Having a good quality lock. （ C） Hiring a strong gatekeeper. （ D） Having a good neighbor. （ A） Leave all th
13、e things to your neighbor to look after. （ B） Tell the post office to keep the mail until you come back. （ C） Cancel the delivery during the time you are not at home. （ D） Make sure there will be always someone in the house. （ A） They are highly intelligent animals. （ B） They are too huge to measure
14、. （ C） They are blue and difficult to see. （ D） They can move in three dimensions freely. （ A） They look true blue underwater. （ B） They look blue on the surface. （ C） They have blue underbellies. （ D） They have blue microorganisms. （ A） They can emit a series of pulses, groans, and moans. （ B） They
15、 can cruise the ocean at more than 20 miles an hour. （ C） They can navigate the lightless ocean depths. （ D） They can swim very fast and have excellent hearing. Section C 26 Americas National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is celebrating the one year anniversary of its Weather-Ready Nation p
16、roject. Weather【 B1】 _from across the United States have been working to improve the way the country【 B2】_extreme weather. They say scientific progress has made weather forecasts, or predictions, better than ever. But, they say the cost of severe weather on life and【 B3】_is still too high. NOAA says
17、 a new generation of equipment has already made its global【 B4】_weather prediction system nearly three times faster in the past seven months. This is【 B5】 _to improve NOAAs forecast models. Scientists and weather experts have【 B6】 _a similar effort in the Philippines. It is called Project NOAH the N
18、ationwide Operational Assessment of Hazards. Mahar Lagmay, the head of Project NOAH, says his country needs high-resolution imaging to predict when and where natural disasters will strike. He also says these images will【 B7】 _create smaller area maps, which will shape how people react to natural dis
19、asters. Geologist Carlos Primo David also works with Project NOAH. He says the group depends on【 B8】 _, radar and hundreds of rain gauges across the country. The resulting forecasts are very detailed, and can even【 B9】 _the intensity of rainfall. The Philippine state weather agency used rainfall inf
20、ormation from Project NOAH when Manila flooded in August. The weather agency also re-broadcast its warnings on the social networking website and a color coded warning system was also【 B10】 _. Mahar Lagmay says the project passed its first test. He says the government used the information to move peo
21、ple to safety. 27 【 B1】 28 【 B2】 29 【 B3】 30 【 B4】 31 【 B5】 32 【 B6】 33 【 B7】 34 【 B8】 35 【 B9】 36 【 B10】 Section A 36 Greece, economically, is in the black. With very little to export other than such farm products as tobacco, cotton and fruit, the country earns enough from “invisible earnings“ to p
22、ay for its needed, growing imports. From the sending out of things the Greeks, earn only $ 285 million; from tourism, shipping and the remittances of Greeks abroad, the country takes in an【 C1】 _$ 375 million and this washes out the almost $ 400 million by which imports exceed exports. It has a bala
23、nced budget. Although more than one drachma(希腊货币 )out of four goes for defense, the government ended a recent year with a slight surplus $ 66 million. Greece has a decent【 C2】 _of almost a third of a billion dollars in gold and foreign exchange. It has a government not dependent on coalescing【 C3】 _
24、parties to obtain parliamentary majorities. In thus summarizing a few happy highlights, I dont mean to【 C4】 _the vast extent of Greeces problems. It is the poorest country by a wide margin in Free Europe, and poverty is widespread. At best an annual income of $ 60 to $ 70 is the lot of many a peasan
25、t, and substantial unemployment【 C5】 _the countryside, cities, and towns of Greece. There are few natural resources on which to build any substantial industrial base. Some years ago I wrote here: “Greek statesmanship will have to create an atmosphere in which home and foreign savings will willingly
26、seek investment opportunities in the back ward economy of Greece. So far, most American and other foreign attempt have【 C6】 _down in the Greek governments red tape and shrewdness about small points. “ Great【 C7】 _have been made. As far back as 1956, expanding tourism seemed a logical way to bring ne
27、eded foreign currencies and additional jobs to Greece. At that time I talked with the Hilton Hotel people, who had been examining hotel possibilities, and to the Greek government division responsible for this area of the economy. They were hopelessly【 C8】 _in almost total differences of opinion and
28、outlook. Today most of the incredibly varied, beautiful, historical sights of Greece have new, if in many cases modest, tourist facilities. Tourism itself has jumped from【 C9】_$31 million to over $90 million. There is both a magnificent new Hilton Hotel in Athens and a completely modernized, greatly
29、 expanded Grande Bretagne, as well as other first rate new hotels. And the advent of jets has made Athens as【 C10】 _as Paris or Rome without the sky high prices of traffic choked streets of either. A)accessible I)execution B)additional J)incompatible C)approximately K)incomparable D)bogged L)minimiz
30、e E)contend M)plagues F)deadlocked N)reserve G)deflect O)strides H)deliberately 37 【 C1】 38 【 C2】 39 【 C3】 40 【 C4】 41 【 C5】 42 【 C6】 43 【 C7】 44 【 C8】 45 【 C9】 46 【 C10】 Section B 46 Six Steps to Tackling Your Student Loans AAny payment is a good debt payment, but a strategy can be useful too even
31、if your strategy means opening the envelope. Open the envelope BThis is the hardest thing to do. The bills come with the “Sallie Mae“ or “Discover“ logo on them and you toss them aside, hoping to deal with them when you feel less besieged(围攻 ). You know you started owing some amount $ 20,000, $ 50,0
32、00, $ 100,000 and that the interest is piling up, but you dont know exactly how much or how. When faced with heavy debt, many people try to avoid seeing the numbers. CThis doesnt work, even psychologically. Anyone who has let credit-card bills or mortgage bills pile up, unopened, knows that avoiding
33、 the envelope does not reduce your anxiety; it increases it. As those envelopes multiply, they take over your psychological state. In horror movies, its like the monster in the room behind the door. You dont know what it looks like, but it keeps you scared and immobile. So, open the envelope. DOr, e
34、ven better, log in online. All student loan providers have a web site where you can see what you owe, your interest rates, and your payment schedules. SallieMae. com is no-frills, but still allows you to see your loans on one screen, including your interest rates. Discover, com also has a pretty bas
35、ic site. Citibank has a more complex site. Get used to logging into these sites pretty often; if you need motivation, think of it as visiting your money while its in prison. EThe websites all have one thing in common: they let you see how much you owe, and what your interest is, and they make it eas
36、y to pay but they dont let you see how much your debt load is growing. This is a major motivating factor in paying down your loans. Identify your loans FAre your loans held by the federal government usually through Sallie Mae or through “private“ lenders like Citibank or Discover? If you dont know w
37、ho holds your loans, you can find out here, at the National Student Loan Data System. GWhy do you need to know who holds your loans? This will make a difference to your payment options and your interest rates. If you have a federal loan, for instance, your interest rate is probably very low, around
38、32% ; if you have private loans, the interest rates are likely to be much higher, around 48% . Federal loans also give you options like requesting forbearance(延期还贷 )if youre out of work or if your income is too lowhandy for the times when youre down on your luck. Start seeing your debt in new ways H
39、The websites of lenders are often limited and only have basic information. To really tackle your student loans, it can often be useful to visualize how much progress youre making. There are several ways to do that. IOne really useful new free site is Tuition, io, which gathers information for all yo
40、ur loans in one place. You can see your debt in colorful charts, play around with repayment plans, and, once you start paying your loans, you can see the numbers start to fall. That can be very motivating. JFor the same effect that you can customize yourself, try a Google Docs spreadsheet. Theres a
41、template that already exists for paying down loans; it has the unpromising title of “ Loan amortization schedule by Vertex42. com“ but it has very handy calculators built in so that you can tweak your monthly payments to see how much progress you can make if you increase or decrease your payments in
42、 any given month. If you dont like that template, just create a Google Docs spreadsheet with the categories you need: date; loan name/number; loan interest rate; starting loan amount(including how much you owe on that date); payment amount you made on that date; ending loan amount after that payment
43、. After you have enough entries, you can start creating graphs; there are few things more satisfying than seeing that graph move downward as you pay off your debt. KIf you want to see your loans in a larger context of your whole financial picture, LearnVest is a great mobile app for iPhone. It gathe
44、rs all your information income, loans, credit card debt by linking to your accounts. It serves up useful graphs on your net worth, comparing your assets to what you owe and theres nothing more motivating than seeing a “minus“ sign next to your financial picture. LearnVest also lets you track your sp
45、ending, which may make it easier to see where to cut down on expenses so that you can put more into your loan payments. LearnVest also has a good website full of useful advice. Dont be afraid to scare yourself LStudent loans can often be scary and thats why you should slay them. The more you see how
46、 much you owe, and how fast your interest is rising, the more motivated you can be to fight back by paying those loans. One staffer, after she saw how much money she was wasting on interest payments, increased her student loan payments by $ 75 a month. MIt can also be tempting to believe that your s
47、tudent debt is so big that nothing you do can ever make a dent in it. Thats completely untrue. Only paying your loans will shrink them. It will take years, true. It will take even longer if you dont pay, or pay the minimum. Theres only one outcome of shirking your loans: ending up with bigger loans.
48、 Then youre in an even bigger bind. No one is going to save you from student loans. Action counts. Choose a strategy NAny payment is a good payment, but a strategy can be very useful too. There are two aspects to loans: principal and interest. Principal is how much youve borrowed, and the interest i
49、s what youre paying every month for the privilege of having borrowed that money. Your goal is to pay down as much of the principal as possible. Your chief enemy here is interest: it grows fast, and makes the principal recede more distantly. OSo make sure you know the rank of your loans, in order from smallest to largest, and lowest interest to highest interest. Do whatever is possible to reduce the
