1、大学英语六级（ 2013年 12月考试改革适用）模拟试卷 77及答案与解析 一、 Part I Writing 1 For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay on diligence by referring to the saying “It never will rain roses. When we want to have more roses we must plant trees.“ You can give examples to illustrate your point. You should wr
2、ite at least 150 words but no more than 200 words. Section A （ A） The meaning of life. （ B） The chance to live a peaceful life. （ C） The disadvantage of city life. （ D） The common interest in life. （ A） Because she forgot it. （ B） Because she got ill. （ C） Because she had attended it before. （ D） Be
3、cause she didnt have such plan. （ A） Prepare for history presentation together next Thursday. （ B） Work out the difficult problems in history at once. （ C） Work on history presentation together next Monday. （ D） Find out the difficulties in the presentation immediately. （ A） He is also one of the ca
4、ndidates. （ B） He doesnt support Mary in the election. （ C） He gives up the election for some reason. （ D） He thinks he can win the next election. （ A） The woman shouldnt spend money on classical music collection. （ B） He reminds the woman of her neighbors influence on her. （ C） He is against collec
5、ting classical music. （ D） Collecting classical music isnt a good hobby. （ A） Toms mother disagrees with their marriage. （ B） Toms mother has a strange idea on their marriage. （ C） The woman makes Toms mother very angry. （ D） The woman gets along well with Toms mother. （ A） They can decide the fate
6、of people. （ B） They can tell others what kind of person you are. （ C） They can influence a persons character more or less. （ D） They can reveal a persons identity. （ A） Because they arent satisfied with their salaries. （ B） Because they feel empty in their jobs. （ C） Because a good job doesnt mean
7、happiness. （ D） Because they lose interest in life. （ A） Computer Literacy. （ B） English Literature. （ C） TOEFL training. （ D） Chinese Culture. （ A） May 30th. （ B） June 30th. （ C） July 30th. （ D） August 30th. （ A） Sponsorship form, application fee and high school transcripts. （ B） Application fee, h
8、igh school transcripts and language certificates. （ C） A bank statement, sponsorship form and language certificates. （ D） Sponsorship form, application fee and a bank statement. （ A） The interviewees qualifications. （ B） The interviewees personality. （ C） The interviewees former colleagues. （ D） The
9、 interviewees skills. （ A） Try to be very confident in yourself. （ B） Try to know more about the interviewers. （ C） Practice an interview with your best friend. （ D） Go over possible questions with friends in advance. （ A） Give equal time to make eye contact with every interviewer. （ B） Focus on the
10、 questioner and make little eye contact. （ C） Focus on the questioner and look at others from time to time. （ D） Focus on the person who sits in the middle. （ A） The interviewers in a group interview are there to assess your working abilities. （ B） Your understanding of the job requirements is very
11、important. （ C） Its not necessary to collect information about the company. （ D） More attention should be paid to the question other than the interviewers. Section B （ A） Food is no longer a basic need for modern people. （ B） We eat a wide variety of food. （ C） We no longer eat food that primitive p
12、eople ever ate. （ D） We eat more food than primitive people do. （ A） Because we need it to decorate our bodies. （ B） Because it is our second need. （ C） Because we need it to cover our bodies. （ D） Because weather is changing all the time. （ A） The amount of money. （ B） Family size. （ C） The nice ne
13、ighbor. （ D） Ones social position. （ A） There was much more disorder. （ B） The electricity supply failed. （ C） It was quite unexpected. （ D） It came in the cool autumn. （ A） Because the police could not see them in the dark. （ B） Because many of them were armed with guns. （ C） Because there were not
14、 enough policemen to catch them all. （ D） Because they were hidden inside big buildings. （ A） Excessive heat made people turn on many electrical appliances. （ B） Some machines werent working due to the unemployment. （ C） Lightning damaged supply cables during a night. （ D） There is not enough transp
15、ortation to carry the coal. （ A） A whole week. （ B） A whole night. （ C） Three days. （ D） Twenty-four hours. （ A） How to prevent children from watching TV. （ B） Why children like frightening TV programs. （ C） What bad effects TV programs have on children. （ D） What teachers think of todays children.
16、（ A） They suffer from mental pains. （ B） They start doing something in an active way. （ C） They become uninterested in class activities. （ D） They may grow up to be passive watchers. （ A） Love stories. （ B） Bloody fights and death. （ C） News report. （ D） Cartoons. Section C 26 Cheating scandals have
17、 rocked a number of school districts across the country this year. What happened in Atlanta is hard to imagine. Dozens of administrators and teachers changed answers on【 B1】 _tests. When those tests showed big gains, school leaders【 B2】 _. But they were caught, in part, because Georgia have been loo
18、king for【 B3】 _of changing answers for years. Kathleen Mathers, who runs Georgias Office of Student Achievement, says her state is in its third year of using erasure analysis of all elementary and middle school tests. She says the scanners can【 B4】 _“between an answer choice that is definitely made
19、and intended to be the answer choice, and answer choices that were【 B5】 _made and then erased.“ Mathers says that analysis costs the state about $27,000a small fraction of its testing budget. The data established that in many schools there were just too many【 B6】 _from wrong to right. Prof. Gary Mir
20、on of Western Michigan University says this problem is part of the【 B7】 _result of No Child Left Behind. The law said test scores would determine the fate of entire schools. Schools that fail can【 B8】 _, and bad test scores can also harm funding. And now a growing number of states are planning to【 B
21、9】_teachers based in part on test scores. Miron also says before No Child Left Behind, schools tested less often and more carefully. “No Child Left Behind required testing to be【 B10】 _at each of the grades between grades three and eight,“ he says. But with this it meant that we had to distribute th
22、e resources for testing across more grades. 27 【 B1】 28 【 B2】 29 【 B3】 30 【 B4】 31 【 B5】 32 【 B6】 33 【 B7】 34 【 B8】 35 【 B9】 36 【 B10】 Section A 36 Childrens Healthcare of Atlanta wants to move Georgia out of the top 10 list for childhood obesity(肥胖 )by 2016, officials said. Doctors at Childrens Hea
23、lthcare of Atlanta, the largest children healthcare organization in the United States, said they treat patients in their Health4Life Clinic as young as age 3 for complications(并发症 ) 【 C1】 _to obesity. The healthcare systems officials said it began its Strong4Life in early 2011, a large-scale public
24、awareness【 C2】 _, along with programs and partnerships to【 C3】_kids and their parents. The first phase of the campaign, the “warning“ ads, was designed to raise awareness and【 C4】 _conversation about childhood obesity. “A【 C5】 _finding in the research is that while 96 percent of respondents viewed c
25、hildhood obesity as a somewhat or very serious problem, only 28 percent of parents of an obese child considered their child overweight or obese, and only 36 percent were【 C6】 _about their childs weight,“ Dr. Richard Lutz of the University of Floridas Warrington College of Business Administration sai
26、d in a statement. “This【 C7】 _disconnect, known as the perceived personal immunity effect, has been【 C8】 _for issues such as being【 C9】 _affected to contracting lung cancer, skin cancer and AIDS. “ The program also included training more than 1,000 healthcare providers, nurses and dietitians to disc
27、uss obesity with their patients; going to more than 100 schools to share with children the importance of healthy eating and physical【 C10】 _and educating more than 430 daycare centre staff to use Strong4Life tool kits to teach healthy habits at an early age. A)activity I)immediately B)apparent J)int
28、eract C)campaign K)practice D)concerned L)reach E)contributed M)related F)documented N)remarkable G)easily O)spark H)fatal 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 paym
29、ent, but a strategy can be useful tooeven 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
30、started owing some amount-$20,000, $50,000, $ 100,000and 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
31、 pile up. unopened, knows that avoiding 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
32、immobile. vSo, open the envelope. DOr, even 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 ra
33、tes. Discover, com also has a pretty basic 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 wha
34、t your interest is, and they make it easy to paybut 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
35、Citibank or Discover? If you dont know who 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 int
36、erest rate is probably very low. around 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
37、. Start seeing your debt in new ways HThe 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
38、, which gathers information for all your 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, tr
39、y a Google Docs spreadsheet. Theres a 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
40、increase or decrease your payments in 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;
41、ending loan amount after that payment. 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, Learn Vest is a
42、 great mobile app for iPhone. It gathers all your informationincome, 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.
43、Learn Vest also lets you track your spending, which may make it easier to see where to cut down on expenses so that you can put more into your loan payments. Learn Vest also has a good website full of useful advice. Dont be afraid to scare yourself LStudent loans can often be scary- and thats why yo
44、u should slay them. The more you see how 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
45、also be tempting to believe that your student 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 y
46、our loans: ending up with bigger loans. 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
47、much youve borrowed, and the interest is 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 kn
48、ow the rank of your loans, in order from smallest to largest, and lowest interest to highest interest. Do whatever is possible to reduce the interest; as our columnist Helaine Olen points out, Sallie Mae offers you a 0.25% reduction in your loan interest if you sign up for an automatic debit(借方 )pla
49、n just make sure the money is always going to be in your account. If you dont want to do that, follow Helaines other piece of advice: youre smarter to pay off the loans with the higher interest rate first. This will create the biggest impact. Another popular strategy is the “snowball“ method, where you pay the most on the smallest debt owed. So if you have a $20,000 loan and a $10,000 loan, th
