1、大学英语六级（ 2013年 12月考试改革适用）模拟试卷 80及答案与解析 一、 Part I Writing 1 For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay commenting on the remark “Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. “ You can cite examples to illustrate your point. You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 w
2、ords. Section A （ A） She suffers depression. （ B） She is a workaholic. （ C） She is keen on Yoga. （ D） She is overworked. （ A） Have a baby. （ B） Take a tedious job. （ C） Become more humorous. （ D） Go back to work. （ A） The man doesnt like online lectures. （ B） The man is poor at English listening. （
3、C） The woman is a computer fan. （ D） The woman is crazy about learning English. （ A） She appreciates Lucys choices of clothes. （ B） She loves Lucys unusual behaviors. （ C） She thinks Lucy is a little weird. （ D） She doesnt understand Lucy. （ A） A shop assitant. （ B） A doctor. （ C） A lawyer. （ D） A d
4、river. （ A） By waiting for Jim near his house. （ B） By keeping calling Jim. （ C） By going to the shooting grounds. （ D） By going to the bar for a try. （ A） A washing machine. （ B） A dish washer. （ C） A roasting machine. （ D） A grinder. （ A） The man offers the woman a discount. （ B） The man provides
5、the woman with some other choices. （ C） The woman hesitates about the price. （ D） The woman doesnt want to rent any of those houses. （ A） Reduce product prices. （ B） Spend more on advertisements. （ C） Concentrate on their products. （ D） Meet the needs of consumers. （ A） They always contain useless i
6、nformation. （ B） They can not be ignored. （ C） They are too noisy. （ D） They are always so boring. （ A） Modern advertisements. （ B） Useful advertisements. （ C） Colorful advertisements. （ D） Humorous advertisements. （ A） Negative. （ B） Objective. （ C） Affirmative. （ D） Indifferent. （ A） Foods. （ B） C
7、lothes. （ C） Books. （ D） Domestic appliances. （ A） It is not fashionable any more. （ B） It is old and not working normally. （ C） Its noise makes them unhappy. （ D） It cant be used any more. （ A） The prices are higher than before. （ B） The looks are more delicate than before. （ C） The qualities are n
8、ot as good as before. （ D） They are not as convenient as before. Section B （ A） People hold a more positive view towards them. （ B） People never pay attention to them. （ C） People give them serious attention. （ D） People enjoy making friends with them. （ A） European lawyers and Asian student volunte
9、ers. （ B） African Americans from different working backgrounds. （ C） American lawyers and university student volunteers. （ D） American politicians and some lawyers from different countries. （ A） People with pronounceable names enjoy quicker career advancement. （ B） Political officers always use simp
10、ler names. （ C） Special names can give the leader deep impression. （ D） People with pronounceable names could gain much concern. （ A） Husbands salary is pretty high. （ B） Husbands afford the whole part of the income. （ C） Wives and husbands can get the same salary. （ D） Wives and daughters make up t
11、he largest part of the income. （ A） More women workers will involve in these sectors. （ B） The number of employees in these sectors will shrink. （ C） Three out of four employees will be women. （ D） These sectors will face a sever crisis. （ A） Japans industry has moved abroad increasingly. （ B） The e
12、conomy is moving from industrial production to services. （ C） Tourism has become the most popular industry. （ D） The government encourages the development of agriculture. （ A） Car equipments. （ B） Replicas of human organs. （ C） Chinese gardens. （ D） Animal models. （ A） Redesigning something that has
13、 been published. （ B） Downloading something for personal use. （ C） Printing something that is covered by copyright. （ D） Spreading something that is not well-know. （ A） They developed very slowly. （ B） They prohibited downloading music. （ C） They stopped tapes from circulating. （ D） They slowed down
14、 technology development. （ A） Copyright owners should give people more rights to print things. （ B） Copyright owners should ban printing for personal use. （ C） 3D printer owners should slow down the technology from developing. （ D） 3D printer owners should reach an agreement with copyright owners. S
15、ection C 26 Dark chocolate is known to help prevent heart disease, because cocoa contains chemicals called flavanols(黄烷醇 )that may help reduce the risk of strokes and【 B1】_by lowering blood pressure. But eating too much of it may be not so good for your body weight. But never fear! Scientists are lo
16、oking for a way to【 B2】 _dark chocolates helpful ingredients in supplemental pills. “A lot of people are【 B3】 _towards dark chocolate because they just decide they love it, and they also have been reading all about the health benefits of dark chocolate,“ Washington chocolatier Steve Koumanelis says.
17、 But those benefits have not been【 B4】 _by studies involving large numbers of people. Also, during the【 B5】 _of chocolate, many flavanols are destroyed, while sugar and saturated fats are added to【 B6】 _flavor. Scientists now want to learn the benefits of flavanols in their unadulterated(没有掺杂的 )form
18、. They plan a four-year study of 18 000 adults who will take capsules of pure cocoa flavanols. Participants, divided in two groups, will take two【 B7】 _pills a day. One groups pills will contain flavanols, while the others will get placebo pills. “The amount of chocolate that it would take in order
19、to have this amount of cocoa flavanols would be more than ten times the amount that people would【 B8】 _eat,“ says Manson. Whatever the outcome of the study, Koumanelis says hes not worried about his business. “People like the experience of actually【 B9】 _into a piece of chocolate, whatever their fav
20、orites are,“ he says. The flavanol benefits test is still in the early stage, so scientists are not sure when the participants will be handed their first chocolate pills.【 B10】 _, theyll get their flavanols the old fashioned way! 27 【 B1】 28 【 B2】 29 【 B3】 30 【 B4】 31 【 B5】 32 【 B6】 33 【 B7】 34 【 B8
21、】 35 【 B9】 36 【 B10】 Section A 36 Why do we invest so much hope in new technology and why are we so disappointed when the Next Big Thing turns out to be just a new computer? This is what Im asking myself after Apples latest overhyped(过度宣传的 )product introduction. This time around the Next Big Thing i
22、s called an iPad. Its【 C1】 _an oversize iPod Touch, and it will be great for watching movies, reading books, and browsing the Web. Yet for some of us who sat in the audience watching Steve Jobs introduce the device, the whole thing felt like a letdown. The iPad is a perfectly good product. Its reaso
23、nably【 C2】 _, and after spending a few minutes with one, Im pretty sure Ill buy one for myself and probably a second one for my kids to watch movies on road trips. Then why are we so【 C3】 _? The case is that at the very least, we had hoped a tablet from Apple would do something new. Steve Jobs and h
24、is team kept using words like “breakthrough“ and “magical,“ but the iPad is neither. It might turn out to be magical for Apple, because what Jobs is really doing here is trying to【 C4】 _the personal computer with a closed appliance that runs software only from Apples online App Store. So instead of
25、selling you a laptop and never hearing from you again, Apple gets a(n) 【 C5】 _revenue stream with iPad as you keep【 C6】 _more apps. That really is “magical“ for Apples bottom line, anyway. And thats【 C7】 _Whats wrong, or at least interesting, is why some of us【 C8】 _so much more from a new gadget. I
26、 suspect this is because for some people, myself【 C9】 _, technology has become a kind of religion. We may not believe in God anymore, but we still need mystery and wonder. We need the magic【 C10】 _ A)act F)downloading K)included B)basically G)expect L)ongoing C)behavior H)fine M)priced D)desire I)ha
27、rdly N)replace E)disappointed J)illusion O)violent 37 【 C1】 38 【 C2】 39 【 C3】 40 【 C4】 41 【 C5】 42 【 C6】 43 【 C7】 44 【 C8】 45 【 C9】 46 【 C10】 Section B 46 Returning to Science A)Teresa Garrett was working part-time as a biochemistry postdoc(博士后 ). She had an infant at home, and she was miserable. Sh
28、e and her husband were considering having a second child. She didnt like leaving her daughter with a daycare provider, and she wondered if her slim income justified the expense of childcare. She decided to stay home full time. B)It was a lonely but practical decision, she says. She hadnt ruled out t
29、he possibility but she did not expect to return to science: After all, the conventional wisdom would equate several years of parenting leave with the end of a research career. Garrett eventually had two daughters and spent their early years at home. C)The challenge of managing a science career and p
30、ersonal family obligations is not a new issue, particularly for women. In a career where productivity and publications define your value, can you take a couple of years off and then make a successful return? When you do, will employers trust your devotion to your job? D)For Garrett, the answer to bo
31、th questions was “Yes. “ First, she found a short-term teaching tutor at Duke University, the institution where she had done her Ph.D. And then Christian Raetz, who had been her Ph.D. adviser, offered her a postdoc. The timing was perfect: She was ready to start a more regular work schedule, and her
32、 husband was interested in starting a business. Today, she is a chemistry professor at Vassar College. Garrett credits Raetz both for his faith in her abilities and his willingness to judge her contributions on quality and productivity and not the number of hours she spent in the laboratory. “People
33、 are always shocked to know that you can take time off and come back,“ she says. E)Returning to research after an extended personal leave is possible, but it may not be straightforward. Progress can be slow and there may be some fallout from a break. The path back doesnt come with a road map or a ti
34、meline. Your reentry will have a different rhythm than your initial approach because this time you have to balance your career with the needs of a family. The uncertainty can make you feel isolated and alone. But if you are persistent and take advantage of the resources that are available, you can g
35、et it done. Stepping Sideways F)After time away from the work force, its particularly easy to underestimate your value as a scientist and henceto take one or more backward steps. Dont, says Ruth Ross, who nearly made that mistake after spending 4 years at home with her children. A Ph. D. pharmacolog
36、ist with industry experience, she applied for a technician job at the University of Aberdeen in the United Kingdom as she planned her return to science. She would have taken the job if it had been offered, she says, but “that probably would have been a bad career move. “ As it turned out, the univer
37、sity decided she was over-qualified. G)Instead of taking a step back, take a step sideways: If you left a postdoc, return to a postdoc, perhaps with a special career reentry fellowship. A faculty member at Aberdeen encouraged Ross to apply for a newly established career reentry fellowship from the W
38、ellcome Trust. Funding from that organization supported her postdoctoral research until the university hired her into a faculty position in 2002. H)After 2 years at home with her son and twin daughters followed by 3 years searching for project management jobs in the biotech industry, biochemist Pia
39、Abola got wind of an opening at the Molecular Sciences Institute(MSI). An MSI staff scientist needed skills like hers but lacked money, so the two applied jointly for an NIH career reentry supplement. Shes now a protein biochemist and grant writer at Prosetta Bioconformatics. Independence and Flexib
40、ility I)Instead of stepping backward or sideways, physicist Shireen Adenwalla took a step forward. Instead of taking another postdoc, she set up an independent research program on soft money. Early in her career, Adenwalla took 15 months off, caring for her first child and then looking for another p
41、ostdoc. When she and her physicist husband decided to move to the University of Nebraska, Lincolnhe had accepted a tenure-track positionAdenwalla turned down postdoc opportunities. Instead she arranged a visiting faculty position, followed by a post as a research assistant professor. J)“I think that
42、 was a very smart thing,“ she says today. “Establishing an independent research program is very important.“ Her starting salary was just $ 15 000, and she got just $5 000 in start-up assistance. She borrowed equipment, taught courses, took on graduate students, and published her research. She had a
43、lab and an office, but both got moved aroundher lab three times, her office twice. K)Adenwalla missed having real start-up money, her own equipment, and the institutional investment that comes with a tenure-track position. On the other hand, she was her own boss, so she was able to take 6 months off
44、 when she had her second child and work part time for a while after her third child was born. Eventually she was hired to a tenure-track post. L)Flexible or part-time hours can smooth the transition back into the scientific work force. Some reentry fellowships specify a part-time option and most are
45、 accommodating, but even if you dont have a fellowship you can ask for a work schedule that meets your needs. Ross, for example, took advantage of the part-time provision of the Wellcome Trust Fellowship. When Garrett took the position on the Lipid Maps grant, she negotiated a 30-hour-a-week schedul
46、e. Patience: an Essential Virtue M)Two months before physicist Marija Nikolic-Jarics scheduled dissertation(学位论文 )defense at Simon Fraser University, her husband was diagnosed with an aggressive brain tumor. Over the next 17 months, she focused on her husband and his cancer treatments. After his dea
47、th, she moved with her little son to Winnipeg to be near family. N)She tried to jump-start her thesis project several times, the first in 1998, but she wasnt ready yet and became discouraged. Eventually, she found the motivation to return. She started from the beginning, with a new approach. She fin
48、ished her Ph. D. in 2008. Now a postdoc at the University of Manitoba, she has moved into a new research areabiomicrofluidics. This year, her work is supported by an M. Hildred Blewett Scholarship, a career reentry grant from the American Physical Society. O)Elizabeth Freeland, too, continues to wor
49、k toward a permanent research position a decade after her return. When she followed her future husband to his postdoc at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York, and subsequently to Chicago, Illinois, she wasnt able to find a compatible research opportunity. Since then, she has cared for the couples two young children, taught part time, and found a few short-term research opportunities, some paid, others not. P)Like Nikolic-Jaric,
