1、大学英语六级（ 2013年 12月考试改革适用）模拟试卷 74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 Real-name Ticketing System. Your essay should start with a brief description of the picture. You should write at least 150 words but no more than 2
2、00 words. Write your essay on Answer sheet 1. On the Importance of Real-name Ticketing System Section A （ A） Since last year. （ B） For several weeks. （ C） For a few days. （ D） For a few hours. （ A） He enjoyed using it. （ B） He left it in the taxi. （ C） He left it at the airport. （ D） He lost it on h
3、is trip. （ A） They have three children already. （ B） Cathy wishes to have a baby, but Tom doesnt. （ C） They will start a family as soon as they get married. （ D） They dont want to have a baby for the time being. （ A） Meet his client. （ B） Prepare the dinner. （ C） Work at his office. （ D） Fix his car
4、. （ A） She wants to borrow the mans student ID card. （ B） The tickets are less expensive than she expected. （ C） She wont be able to get any discount on the ticket. （ D） The movie turns out to be boring. （ A） He is a dentist. （ B） He is a surgeon. （ C） He is a physician. （ D） He is a chemist. （ A） S
5、he couldnt wait her bus home. （ B） She spent her time shopping. （ C） She got interested in what she is reading. （ D） She didnt wake up in time. （ A） Shell type the documents for the man. （ B） Shell teach the man to operate the typewriter. （ C） She doesnt think the mans sister is a good typist. （ D）
6、She thinks the man should buy a typewriter. （ A） They became more excited. （ B） They became bad-tempered. （ C） They didnt know what to do. （ D） They shifted their attention. （ A） She did the study all by herself. （ B） She organized a team to do the study. （ C） She finished the study under her tutors
7、 instruction. （ D） She divided the team into different groups. （ A） Go to study in a university. （ B） Work in a cell phone company. （ C） Conduct the cell phone research in the university. （ D） Take part in another competition. （ A） It lasted for four weeks. （ B） It started from Pittsburg. （ C） It en
8、ded in Mongolia. （ D） It took different transportation means. （ A） There were cows and sheep everywhere. （ B） There were many trees in Siberia. （ C） He saw a large area of desert. （ D） He saw nothing except wild camels in Mongolia. （ A） He brought food with him when he got on the train. （ B） He boug
9、ht food from the local people on the train. （ C） He bought food sold on the platform. （ D） He ate in the dining cart of the train. （ A） He will visit Russia next year. （ B） He will take a luxurious train next time. （ C） He wont go to Russia in future. （ D） He will wait a few years to visit Russia ag
10、ain. Section B （ A） It leads to greater productivity. （ B） It solves the problem of many factories. （ C） It makes the workers life more enjoyable. （ D） It really makes people work harder. （ A） It will make workers less productive. （ B） Its hard to give them freedom in the modern factory. （ C） It wil
11、l increase criminal rates. （ D） Its very difficult to control the workers. （ A） We can do something about contribution. （ B） Workers can enjoy more spare time. （ C） We should make their jobs more interesting. （ D） Workers prefer shorter working hours. （ A） They would demand a satisfactory pay. （ B）
12、They would demand nice working conditions. （ C） They would think shorter working hours less important. （ D） They would get along better with the boss. （ A） Jeffersons views about commercialized agriculture. （ B） International trade in the 19th century. （ C） Improvements in farm machinery in the Unit
13、ed States. （ D） Farmers loss of independence. （ A） Crop production became increasingly specialized. （ B） Economic depressions lowered the prices of farm products. （ C） New banking laws made it easy to buy farmland. （ D） The United States increased its agricultural imports. （ A） Prices for farm produ
14、cts rose. （ B） Farmers became more dependent on loans from banks. （ C） Jefferson established government programs to assist farmers. （ D） Farmers relied less on foreign markets. （ A） Red-haired women were regarded as more reliable. （ B） Brown-haired women were rated as more capable. （ C） Golden-haire
15、d women were considered attractive. （ D） Black-haired women were judged to be intelligent. （ A） They are smart and eloquent. （ B） They are ambitious and arrogant. （ C） They are shrewd and dishonest. （ D） They are wealthy and industrious. （ A） They force people to follow the cultural mainstream. （ B）
16、 They exaggerate the roles of certain groups of people. （ C） They emphasize diversity at the expense of uniformity. （ D） They hinder our perception of individual differences. Section C 26 In most parts of the world, the relation between population and resources is already unfavorable and will probab
17、ly become even more unfavorable in the future. This growing poverty constitutes a【 B1】 _menace not only to peace, but also to democratic institutions and personal liberty. An【 B2】 _relationship between numbers and resources tends to make the earning of a living almost intolerably difficult. The indi
18、vidual【 B3】 _work long hours for little pay. No surplus of accumulated purchasing power stands between him and the cruelty of【 B4】 _nature. Democracy is, among other things, the ability to say “no“ to the boss. But a man cannot say “no“ to the boss, unless he is sure of being able to eat when the bo
19、sss favor has been【 B5】 _. And he cannot be certain of his next meal unless he owns the means of producing enough wealth for his family to live on, or has been able to accumulate a surplus out of past【 B6】 _, or has a chance of moving to virgin territories, where he can【 B7】_. In an overcrowded coun
20、try, very few people own enough to make them financially independent; very few are in a position to accumulate purchasing power; and there is no free land. Moreover, in any country where population【 B8】 _hard upon natural resources, the general economic situation【 B9】 _be so uncertain. As a result,
21、government control of capital and labor, production and consumption becomes【 B10】 _It is no accident that the 20th century should be the century of highly centralized governments and dictatorships; it had to be so for the simple reason that the 20th century is the century of global overcrowding. 27
22、【 B1】 28 【 B2】 29 【 B3】 30 【 B4】 31 【 B5】 32 【 B6】 33 【 B7】 34 【 B8】 35 【 B9】 36 【 B10】 Section A 36 According to a paper to be published in Psychological Science this has an interesting psychological effect. A group of researchers, led by Eugene Caruso of the University of Chicago, found that peopl
23、e judge the distance of events【 C1】 _, depending on whether they are in the past or future. The paper calls this the “Temporal Doppler Effect“. In physics, the Doppler effect describes the way that waves change frequency depending on whether their【 C2】 _is travelling towards or away from you. Mr. Ca
24、ruso argues that something similar happens with peoples perception of time. Because future events are associated with diminishing distance, while those in the past are thought of as【 C3】 _, something happening in one month feels psychologically【 C4】 _than something that happened a month ago. This id
25、ea was tested in a series of experiments. In one, researchers asked 323【 C5】_and divided them into two groups. A week before Valentines day, members of the first were asked how they planned to celebrate it. A week after February 14th the second group reported how they had celebrated it. Both groups
26、also had to describe how near the day felt on a【 C6】 _of one to seven. Those describing forthcoming plans were more likely to report it as feeling “a short time from now“, while those who had already【 C7】 _it tended to cluster at the “a long time from now“ end of the scale. To account for the risk t
27、hat recalling actual events requires different cognitive functions than imagining ones that have not yet happened, they also asked participants to【 C8】_the distance of hypothetical events a month in the past or future. The asymmetry(不对称 )remained. Mr. Caruso speculates that his research has【 C9】 _fo
28、r psychological well-being. He suspects that people who do not show this bias those who feel the past as being closer might be more【 C10】 _to rumination (沉思 )or depression, because they are more likely to dwell on past events. A)advancing I)prospect B)apparently J)rate C)available K)receding D)close
29、r L)scale E)differently M)source F)evaluate N)subject G)experienced O)volunteers H)implications 37 【 C1】 38 【 C2】 39 【 C3】 40 【 C4】 41 【 C5】 42 【 C6】 43 【 C7】 44 【 C8】 45 【 C9】 46 【 C10】 Section B 46 A Best Friend? You Must Be Kidding! AFrom the time they met in kindergarten until they were 15, Robi
30、n Shreeves and her friend Penny were inseparable. They rode bikes, played kickball in the street, swam all summer long and listened to the music on the stereo. They told each other secrets like which boys they thought were cute, as best friends always do. BToday, Ms. Shreeves, of suburban Philadelph
31、ia, is the mother of two boys. Her 10-year-old has a best friend. In fact, he is the son of Ms. Shreevess own friend, Penny. But Ms. Shreevess younger son, 8, does not. His favorite playmate is a boy who was in his preschool class, but Ms. Shreeves says that the two dont get together very often beca
32、use scheduling play dates can be complicated; they usually have to be planned a week or more in advance. “Hell say, I wish I had someone I can always call, “ Ms. Shreeves said. COne might be tempted to feel some sympathy for the younger son. After all. from Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn to Harry Potter a
33、nd Ron Weasley, the childhood “best friend“ has long been romanticized in literature and pop culture not to mention in the sentimental memories of countless adults. DBut increasingly, some educators and other professionals who work with children are asking a question that might surprise their parent
34、s: Should a child really have a best friend? EMost children naturally seek close friends. In a survey of nearly 3,000 Americans ages 8 to 24 conducted last year by Harris Interactive, 94 percent said they had at least one close friend. But the classic bestfriend bond the two special pals who share s
35、ecrets and exploits, who attract each other on the playground and who head out the door together every day after school signals potential trouble for school officials intent on discouraging anything that hints of exclusivity, in part because of concerns about cliques(帮派 )and bullying. F“I think it i
36、s kids preference to pair up and have that one best friend. As adultsteachers and counselors we try to encourage them not to do that,“ said Christine Laycob, director of counseling at Mary Institute and St. Louis Country Day School in St. Louis. “We try to talk to kids and work with them to get them
37、 to have big groups of friends and not be so possessive about friends.“ “Parents sometimes say Johnny needs that one special friend,“ she continued. “We say he doesnt need a best friend. “ GFor many child-rearing experts, the ideal situation might well be that of Matthew and Margaret Guest, 12-year-
38、old twins in suburban Atlanta, who almost always socialize in a pack. One typical Friday afternoon, about 10 boys and girls filled the Guest family backyard. Kids were jumping on the trampoline(蹦床 ), shooting baskets and playing hide-and-seek. Neither Margaret nor Matthew has ever had a best friend.
39、 “I just really dont have one person I like more than others,“ Margaret said. “Most people have lots of friends. “ Matthew said he considers 12 boys to be his good friends and says he sees most of them “pretty much every weekend.“ Their mother, Laura Guest, said their school tries to prevent bullyin
40、g through workshops and posters. And extracurricular activities keep her children group-oriented Margaret is on the swim team and does gymnastics; Matthew plays football and baseball. HAs the calendar moves into summer, efforts to manage friendships dont stop with the closing of school. In recent ye
41、ars Timber Lake Camp, a co-ed sleep-away camp in Phoenicia, N. Y. , has started employing “friendship coaches“ to work with campers to help every child become friends with everyone else. If two children seem to be too focused on each other, the camp will make sure to put them on different sports tea
42、ms, seat them at different ends of the dining table or, perhaps, have a counselor invite one of them to participate in an activity with another child whom they havent yet gotten to know. I dont think its particularly healthy for a child to rely on one friend,“ said Jay Jacobs, the camps director. “I
43、f something goes wrong, it can be devastating. It also limits a childs ability to explore other options in the world. “ IBut such an attitude worries some psychologists who fear that children will be denied the strong emotional support and security that comes with intimate friendships. “Do we want t
44、o encourage kids to have all sorts of superficial relationships? Is that how we really want to rear our children?“ asked Brett Laursen, a psychology professor at Florida Atlantic University whose specialty is peer relationships. “Imagine the implication for romantic relationships. We want children t
45、o get good at leading close relationships, not superficial ones.“ Many psychologists believe that close childhood friendships not only increase a childs self-esteem and confidence, but also help children develop the skills for healthy adult relationships everything from empathy, the ability to liste
46、n and console, to the process of arguing and making up. If childrens friendships are designed and cleaned by adults, the argument goes, how is a child to prepare emotionally for both the affection and rejection likely to come later in life? J“No one can teach you what a great friend is, what a fair-
47、weather friend is, what a betraying friend is except to have a great friend, a fair-weather friend or a betraying friend,“ said Michael Thompson, a psychologist who is an author of the book Best Friends, Worst Enemies: Understanding the Social Lives of Children. “When a teacher is trying to tone dow
48、n a best-friend culture, I would like to know why,“ Dr. Thompson said. “Is it causing misery for the class? Or is there one girl who does have friends but just cant bear the thought that she doesnt have as good a best friend as another? That to me is normal social pain. If youre intervening in the l
49、ives of kids who are just experiencing normal social pain, you shouldnt be.“ KSchools insist they dont intend to break up close friendships but rather to encourage courtesy, respect and kindness to all. “I dont see schools really in the business of trying to prevent friendships as far as they are trying to give students an opportunity to interact socially with other students in a variety of different ways,“
