1、大学英语六级（ 2013年 12月考试改革适用）模拟试卷 69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 Should Environmental Problems Be Solved by Raising the Price of Fuel? You should write at least 150 words following the outline given below. Write your essay on Answer
2、sheet 1. 1现在有不少人认为解决环境问题的最好方法是提高油价 2对这种做法有人表示支持，也有人并不赞成 3我认为 Should Environmental Problems Be Solved by Raising the Price of Fuel? Section A （ A） The woman should change a new battery. （ B） The price of the watch is not reasonable. （ C） Smiths Jewelry is a good place to check the watch. （ D） Smiths
3、Jewelry sells watch and battery reasonably. （ A） The woman calls to change the time of the appointment. （ B） The mans appointment for annual checkup is today. （ C） The man doesnt want to see Dr. Grey tomorrow. （ D） The man remembered the wrong time for annual checkup. （ A） He doesnt like the woman a
4、t all. （ B） He will see the woman in a few minutes. （ C） He would like to see the woman tomorrow. （ D） He doesnt like talking about economics. （ A） Coffee is too expensive for the man. （ B） The supermarket is going to move away. （ C） The man probably likes drinking coffee. （ D） The woman will stock
5、up on coffee. （ A） She has no time to help the man prepare refreshments. （ B） She reminds the man to plan the refreshments reasonably. （ C） She wants to do the refreshments all by herself. （ D） She wants the man to plan enough refreshments for 3 clubs. （ A） The weather is fine in New York now. （ B）
6、The woman thinks the man shouldnt take Flight 213. （ C） The flight will leave for New York very soon. （ D） Flight 213 is delayed because of snowy weather. （ A） Seeing Janets new house. （ B） Getting a gift for Janet. （ C） Buying a new house. （ D） Affording a new gift. （ A） Give the novel to Emily. （
7、B） Buy the novel from the bookstore. （ C） Borrow the novel from Emily. （ D） Return the novel to the owner. （ A） It is a very popular sport on TV. （ B） It is part of peoples daily life. （ C） Players are well-known and wealthy. （ D） All people have experience of playing soccer. （ A） Their views on soc
8、cer are changing. （ B） Their family members like other teams. （ C） Their interest in soccer is not real. （ D） The teams unsatisfactory performance. （ A） Everyone there plays soccer. （ B） Chileans rarely change the team. （ C） People dont talk about soccer there. （ D） Chileans only support the Chilean
9、 team. （ A） Education. （ B） Eating habit （ C） Culture. （ D） Schooling. （ A） French parents get along well with their children. （ B） French parents are less strict than American parents. （ C） French parents give their children more free time. （ D） French parents try not to spoil their children. （ A）
10、There are many baby sitters in the U. S. （ B） One parent in the family takes care of the baby. （ C） Both parents must take care of the children. （ D） Schools are more responsible for raising kids. （ A） Because it means earning money. （ B） Because it helps to get higher score. （ C） Because it means w
11、ork experience. （ D） Because it helps to make friends. Section B （ A） The new technology used to build roads. （ B） The ability to transport goods across the world. （ C） The fast growing trade in grain and cotton. （ D） The linking of local country roads into one long road. （ A） Reduced charges for tr
12、ansporting farm products. （ B） Required payment from vehicles that used their roads. （ C） Invested a lot of money in repairing the old roads. （ D） Installed streetlights on roads connecting major cities. （ A） The advantages of the U. S. economy based on farming. （ B） Reasons why farmers continued us
13、ing river transportation. （ C） The role of cotton in the United States economy. （ D） Improved methods of transporting farm crops. （ A） To describe ways pests can damage plants. （ B） To examine the life cycle of corn plants. （ C） To explain how corn plants develop. （ D） To describe how a natural pest
14、icide works. （ A） Insects chewing on its leaves. （ B） Bees laying eggs on its leaves. （ C） Pesticides sprayed on its leaves. （ D） Knives cutting its stalk. （ A） By flying in circles around a corn field. （ B） By egging offspring who eats the insects. （ C） By inspecting individual corn leaves. （ D） By
15、 noticing the insects eggs. （ A） Researching ways to increase grain output. （ B） Studying the life rules of plants and insects. （ C） Reducing or even eliminating the need for chemical pesticide. （ D） Developing cultural controls in managing pest populations. （ A） Hed like to buy products recommended
16、 by an advertiser. （ B） Hed like to buy products recommended by the professional. （ C） He prefers to buy products recommended by friends. （ D） He doesnt trust in any kinds of advertisements. （ A） Word-of-mouth advertising turns out to be insincere. （ B） Traditional advertisements are unconvincing. （
17、 C） Everyone loves traditional advertisers products. （ D） Most people believe in word-of-mouth advertising. （ A） Socializing and networking has made people closer. （ B） Its high credibility has made people trust the products. （ C） Its low costs have brought more profits to advertisers. （ D） Relative
18、s and friends become more independent on the net. Section C 26 Some people think of politics as a game. But an online game makes people【 B1】_themselves doing one of the hardest jobs in American politics; cutting the federal budget. The game is called Budget Hero. Students in Los Angeles and other ci
19、ties have been playing it. Budget Hero lets them【 B2】 _how they want to spend federal tax dollars. The game uses information from the【 B3】 _Budget Office. It shows what effects each cost-cutting proposal would have. The game was developed in 2008. In the newest【 B4】 _, students make decisions about
20、what spending is important to them. Do they want to reduce taxes?【 B5】 _environmental protection? What should they do about defense spending? Making these decisions helps【 B6】 _their goals. Jane Harmon, a former Democratic【 B7】 _from California who has served in Congress for almost twenty years, off
21、ered students some ideas. She now heads the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, which helped create Budget Hero. More than one million people have played it【 B8】 _, she says, and she thinks they have learned at least two things. One is how hard it is and the other is that it can be don
22、e if theres a will to do it. Ms. Harmon also says the students are having more【 B9】_than Congress at cutting the budget. She says that kids, and actually adults too who play this game, have open minds and they want to learn what the facts are. And sadly, a lot of Congress is a fact-free universe, an
23、d that is【 B10】 _for the country. 27 【 B1】 28 【 B2】 29 【 B3】 30 【 B4】 31 【 B5】 32 【 B6】 33 【 B7】 34 【 B8】 35 【 B9】 36 【 B10】 Section A 36 On the evening before All Saints Day in 1517, Martin Luther nailed 95 theses to the door of a church in Wittenberg. In those days a thesis was simply a【 C1】 _one
24、wanted to argue. Today a doctoral thesis is both an idea and an【 C2】 _of a period of original research. Writing one is the aim of the hundreds of thousands of students who【 C3】 _on a doctorate of philosophy(PhD)every year. In most countries a PhD is a basic requirement for a career in academia. It i
25、s an introduction to the world of independent research a kind of【 C4】 _masterpiece, created by an apprentice in close collaboration with a supervisor. The requirements to complete one vary【 C5】 _between countries, universities and even subjects. Some students will first have to spend two years worki
26、ng on a masters degree or diploma. Some will receive a stipend; others will pay their own way. Some PhDs【 C6】_only research, some require classes and examinations and some require the student to teach undergraduates. A thesis can be dozens of pages in mathematics, or many hundreds in history. As a r
27、esult, newly minted PhDs can be as young as their early 20s or world-weary forty-somethings. One thing many PhD students have in common is【 C7】 _. Some describe their work as “ slave labour“. Seven-day weeks, ten-hour days, low pay and uncertain prospects are widespread. Whining PhD students are not
28、hing new, but there seem to be【 C8】 _problems with the system that produces research doctorates(the practical “professional doctorates“ in fields such as law, business and medicine have a more obvious value). There is an oversupply of PhDs. Although a doctorate is designed as training for a job in a
29、cademia, the number of PhD positions is unrelated to the number of job openings. Meanwhile, business leaders【 C9】 _about shortages of high-level skills, suggesting PhDs are not teaching the right things. The fiercest critics【 C10】_research doctorates to Ponzi or pyramid schemes. A)account I)embark B
30、)acquirements J)enormously C)aggressively K)genetic D)cognitive L)genuine E)compare M)intellectual F)complain N)involve G)contain O)position H)dissatisfaction 37 【 C1】 38 【 C2】 39 【 C3】 40 【 C4】 41 【 C5】 42 【 C6】 43 【 C7】 44 【 C8】 45 【 C9】 46 【 C10】 Section B 46 Save for College AIn this article, we
31、ll look at the rules for 529 Qualified State Tuition Plans. Well explore the difference between this savings vehicle and some of the other traditional education savings methods and see why this plan is the best yet! The cost of college BYou may never have thought you could get excited about big sums
32、 of money you wont be spending on yourself until you read about this new college savings plan. The 529 plan offers the most painless way to save money for higher education to date. And if the child decides not to go to college, you can roll it over to someone else that does want to go, including you
33、rself! The 529 Plan is a savings plan for college education. You have a couple of options when you open an account. One option lets you prepay tuition at a qualified educational institution at todays tuition rates. Another option lets you save money in a tax deferred account(earnings only)to be used
34、 to pay for education at future tuition rates. CThe idea, with either option, is that the investment earnings will grow to meet the higher costs of future education. The savings account option is typically considered the more attractive of the two and is what we will focus on in this article. The 52
35、9 plan is a state sponsored investment program. That is, the state sets up the plan with an asset management company of its choice, and you open a 529 account with that asset management company according to the states predetermined plan features. You are the owner of the account, and the child for w
36、hom the account is set up is the beneficiary(收益人 ). You wont deal directly with the state, but rather with the asset management/investment company. State-to-state variations DBecause each state can control some of the features of its own plan, there are variations from state to state. Most plans fol
37、low the same general scheme(and federal requirements), but make sure you compare plans among states other than your own. Most states dont require residency in order to participate, so shop around different states for the best deal. The benefits: tax treatment EAll of the accounts earnings are exempt
38、 from federal tax when they are withdrawn if they are used for qualified education expenses. This means that, unlike the taxes you have to pay on earnings from regular stock investments, you wont pay any tax on the 529 account earnings unless you end up using the money for something other than highe
39、r education. Earnings are currently tax deferred in most states, as well. FA break on the earnings tax isnt the only tax advantage, either. Although your contributions arent pre-tax(you pay state and federal tax on the money you put into the account), there are some states that let you deduct a port
40、ion of your contributions from your state taxes. More states will probably follow suit in the coming years. The benefits: account control GUnlike Education Savings Accounts(ESA), the account owner always has control of the money. This helps lessen that parental anxiety that the junior will take the
41、money and tour Europe or buy a Porsche instead of going to college. There are no restrictions on who can open an account for whom. You can open an account for your child, a friends child, a relative, the paper boy, or even yourself. The benefits: income eligibility HDid you know that with an ESA, yo
42、u arent eligible to contribute if you make more than $ 110,000 per year($220,000 for married couples)? Unlike ESA, your income does not affect your eligibility to open a 529 account. Contributions to 529 plans also qualify for the $ 11,000($ 22,000 for married couples in 2002)annual gift tax exclusi
43、on. You can also contribute up to five years of gifts during the first year, meaning you can put in up to $ 55,000($ 110,000 for married couples). This is a great benefit in situations where inheritance money enters the picture. Your account can grow up to $268,000 in some states. You can contribute
44、 as little as $25 to $50 per month. The benefits: how the money can be used IIn most states, there is no age limit or time limit for when the money has to be used. Your child can put off college indefinitely, in which case you have the option of rolling the account over to another child as long as t
45、hat child is in the same family of the first beneficiary. In case youre wondering just who is considered “ family“ , the plan defines family members as “ the original beneficiarys spouse, children, sisters, brothers, nephews, nieces, first cousins, and any spouses of those persons. “ JYour child can
46、 go to any accredited(官方认可的 )degree granting educational institution, whether it is public, private, two-year, or four-year. There are even some international schools that qualify. In most states, qualified education costs include tuition, books, room, board, transportation, and even computers. In t
47、he event that your child gets a scholarship, then the remainder of the 529 account can be rolled over to another sibling(or relative), or it can be cashed out with no penalty other than the tax paid(at your rate)on the earnings. The same rule applies in the event of the childs death or disability. T
48、he benefits; investment control KIf the thought of turning over your hard earned money to the state makes you a little uneasy, rest assured that the state doesnt control your money. In fact, most states are signing on with well known, successful investment companies such as TIAA CREF, Vanguard and F
49、idelity. The number and types of investment options vary by state, and once you select your option you cant change it. You can, however, roll your money over into another states plan if youre not happy with your chosen investment option. There is no penalty to roll the money over into another states plan, and you can do it once every 12 months. Most states have no residence requirement for their 529 plans. L
