1、大学英语六级（ 2013年 12月考试改革适用）模拟试卷 83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 Disclosure of Personal Information. Your essay should start with a brief description of the picture. You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 wor
2、ds. On the Disclosure of Personal Information Section A （ A） Blaming her son. （ B） Consulting the man. （ C） Complaining to Bobs father. （ D） Seeking help from her lawyer. （ A） Its impossible to apply the technique to clinical use. （ B） Its important to receive blood compatible with the right type. （
3、 C） It could help avoid blood shortages in the future. （ D） It could help save lives since it is safe and effective. （ A） The man is opposed to drinking. （ B） The man hesitates to attend this years party. （ C） The woman got drunk at last years party. （ D） The woman is a friend of the host of this ye
4、ars party. （ A） Clean up the house by herself. （ B） Consider quitting her job. （ C） Find a maid to help clean the room. （ D） Make her house spotless with her child. （ A） He is a new-comer to the place. （ B） He enjoys natural beauty. （ C） He feels surprised at the change. （ D） He is wearing contact l
5、enses. （ A） Provide his bank account number to them. （ B） Pay no attention to those e-mails. （ C） Verify their claims by talking online. （ D） Help them complete the transaction. （ A） Jack conducted himself very badly. （ B） Jack likes hanging out with a large crowd. （ C） The woman thinks Jack is curs
6、ed by someone. （ D） The man suggests the woman stay away from Jack. （ A） He thinks his topic is perfect. （ B） He thinks the woman is too picky. （ C） He has tried his best to help the woman. （ D） He has no responsibility to rewrite the paper. （ A） The shipping terms. （ B） The stock balance. （ C） The
7、discount rate. （ D） The cargo list. （ A） They send a bit of e-mails to the woman. （ B） They have same conditions and requirements. （ C） Their details are stored in the computer. （ D） They have many complaints to the woman. （ A） Nervous. （ B） Overworked. （ C） Satisfied. （ D） Delighted. （ A） The effec
8、t of the atmosphere on rainfall. （ B） How conditions on Earth support life. （ C） Where ocean water originated from. （ D） A new estimate of the age of Earth. （ A） The surface of the ocean is expanding. （ B） Volcanic activities are increasing. （ C） The surface of Earth contains tons of cosmic dust. （
9、D） Thousands of comets are colliding with Earths outer atmosphere. （ A） Disintegrating comets. （ B） Gases in the atmosphere. （ C） Underground water. （ D） Water vapor. （ A） Biologists. （ B） Geologists. （ C） Oceanographers. （ D） Astronomers. Section B （ A） The power created by ocean waves is unstable.
10、 （ B） The waves are sometimes strong but sometimes weak. （ C） Some coastal areas are too small to set up wave power stations. （ D） The motion of waves is hard to convert into a one-way pushed force. （ A） It can produce both electricity and fresh water. （ B） It can extract the salt and help clean sea
11、water. （ C） It can produce electricity and help clean seawater. （ D） It can produce drinkable water and help protect marine life. （ A） Areas with more sunlight. （ B） Areas with relentless waves. （ C） Areas with less living sea animals. （ D） Areas with less human activities. （ A） The wave carpet is p
12、retty costly. （ B） Properly-installed wave carpet wouldnt hurt the environment. （ C） Current available wave energy can meet 50% of the global energy need. （ D） One-square meter of the wave carpet could supply two American communities. （ A） Ancient people extracted juice from grapes. （ B） People stor
13、ed grapes in containers for wine. （ C） Juice from ripe grapes unexpectedly turned into wine. （ D） Winemaking industry turned grapes into wine. （ A） It was less popular than coffee and tea. （ B） It was the only prepared drink. （ C） Only nobles could enjoy wine. （ D） People use glass containers to tra
14、nsport wine. （ A） Europe is the top wine producing area. （ B） No Africa country grasps the wine producing technology. （ C） India makes a name for its superior red wine. （ D） Australia is the second largest wine producing country. （ A） The first American woman to win the Nobel Prize. （ B） Her various
15、 novels based on China. （ C） Her works in childrens literature. （ D） Her successful stories at home and abroad. （ A） The encouragement from her daughter. （ B） The influence of Dickens writing style. （ C） The influence of other cultures abroad. （ D） The money needed to cure her child. （ A） Pearl Buck
16、s successful career. （ B） Pearl Buck and her works. （ C） Pearl Bucks life experiences. （ D） Pearl Bucks influence on the young. Section C 26 Economists usually study markets. Now, two Americans have won the Nobel Prize in economics for not studying markets. They will share almost $1.5 million for th
17、eir analysis of economic【 B1】 _, which is the study of how economic activity is governed within companies,【 B2】 _and other groups. The winners are Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson. The prize in economic sciences has gone to 63 men since it was first【 B3】 _40 years ago. Elinor Ostrom is the first
18、woman. And, like other winners over the years, her training【 B4】_economics. She is a professor of political science and of public and environmental affairs. Today, economic theory suggests that good resource management requires【 B5】 _, either private or public. If not, the thinking goes, then self-i
19、nterest will lead to overuse and【 B6】 _of shared resources. Elinor Ostrom showed how local decision making can【 B7】 _the tragedy. She studied farmers in Southern California who depended on a common water supply. Her research has deepened the understanding of how people balance their needs with those
20、 of others who depend on the same resources. She【 B8】 _how people who use resources often develop ways to share them. Oliver Williamson has studied big companies and found that they often are better than markets at doing complex jobs. Under his theory, businesses act as structures for conflict resol
21、ution. For example, companies that own their suppliers can【 B9】 _long-term contracts and disputes over prices. This can make production more efficient and【 B10】_limited resources. But businesses can also abuse their power. Prof. Williamson says the best way to deal with this is not by limiting the s
22、ize of companies, but through industry regulation. 27 【 B1】 28 【 B2】 29 【 B3】 30 【 B4】 31 【 B5】 32 【 B6】 33 【 B7】 34 【 B8】 35 【 B9】 36 【 B10】 Section A 36 India is to frugality(节俭 )as Bethlehem is to Jesus. As rich countries enter a new era of【 C1】 _, the best practices of the gurus(专家 )of frugality
23、 can serve as a textbook for frugalitys new pupils. The first tip is to wear your money. One rarely【 C2】 _funds when they are kept in gold and hooked through your nose or strung around your neck. Some Indian women wear saris woven with gold thread. Your upholstery(家具衬垫 )is not for everyone. Sofas we
24、ar away and stain. So cover your sofa with bed sheets and【 C3】 _them for only the best friends. So, too, with crockery(陶器 ): Buy a set of expensive plates and keep it in a case where your friends can see them while they eat from the cheap plates you actually set before them. When eating out, order s
25、oups fractionally: a certain number of soups【 C4】 _by a certain number of people. Start with “one into two,“ the realm of Indian beginners, then graduate in time to “three into five“ and “six into seven.“ Of course, if you can, avoid restaurants【 C5】 _Weddings are big here, and Indians who keep an e
26、ar to the ground can eat free every night. Wedding【 C6】_are not a movie in India; they are a way of life. Within the household, Indian frugalists think strategically, like MBAs. They do not let their children study art history. Children are【 C7】 _, and good investors build a diverse portfolio by rea
27、ring one police officer, one software coder, one retail clerk. They【 C8】 _their educations so that the eventual profits from each child subsidize the schooling of the next one. Every MBA graduate knows about “value investing. “ But only Indian homemakers apply the【 C9】 _to peas. Thats right: Buy pea
28、s in winter, when they are【 C10】_and cheap. Freeze. Defrost and cook in the summer, when prices spike. Indian companies think like Indian consumers. Managers often fly to meetings but take train back home. A)abolish F)misplaces K)remove B)altogether G)plentiful L)scarcity C)appointed H)principal M)s
29、equence D)crashers I)principle N)split E)equities J)property O)sufficient 37 【 C1】 38 【 C2】 39 【 C3】 40 【 C4】 41 【 C5】 42 【 C6】 43 【 C7】 44 【 C8】 45 【 C9】 46 【 C10】 Section B 46 The New Math on Campus A)After midnight on a rainy night last week in Chapel Hill, N. C. , a large group of sorority(女生联谊会
30、 )women at the University of North Carolina squeezed into a basement bar. Bathed in a colorful glow, they splashed beer from pitchers, traded jokes and shouted lyrics to a Taylor Swift heartache anthem thundering overhead. As a night out, it had everythingexcept guys. B)North Carolina, with a studen
31、t body that is nearly 60 percent female, is just one of many large universities that at times feel weirdly like womens colleges. Women have represented about 57 percent of enrollments at American colleges since at least 2000, according to a recent report by the American Council on Education. Researc
32、hers there cite several reasons: women tend to have higher grades; men tend to drop out in disproportionate numbers; and female enrollment leads further among older students, low-income students, and black students. C)Surrounded by so many other successful women, women often find it harder than expe
33、cted to find a date on a Friday night. Jayne Dallas, a senior studying advertising who was seated across the table, complained that the population of male undergraduates was even smaller when you looked at it as a dating pool. “Out of that 40 percent, there are maybe 20 percent that we would conside
34、r, and out of those 20, 10 have girlfriends, so all the girls are fighting over that other 10 percent,“ she said. D)Needless to say, this puts guys in a position to play the field, and tends to mean that even the ones willing to make a commitment come with storied romantic histories. Rachel Sasser,
35、a senior history major at the table, said that before she and her boyfriend started dating, he had “hooked up with at least five of my friends in my sororitythat I know of. “ E)These sorts of romantic complications are hardly confined to North Carolina, an academically rigorous school where most stu
36、dents spend more time studying than socializing. The gender imbalance is also pronounced at some private colleges, such as New York University and Lewis&Clark in Portland, Ore. , and large public universities in states like California, Florida and Georgia. The College of Charleston, a public liberal
37、 arts college in South Carolina, is 66 percent female. Some women at the University of Vermont, with an undergraduate body that is 55 percent female, sardonically refer to their college town, Burlington, as “Girlington.“ F)The gender gap is not universal. The Ivy League schools are largely equal in
38、gender, and some even has a few more males. But at some schools, efforts to balance the numbers have been met with complaints that less-qualified men are being admitted over more-qualified women. In December, the United States Commission on Civil Rights moved to check admissions data from 19 public
39、and private colleges to look at whether they were discriminating against qualified female applicants. G)Leaving aside complaints about “affirmative action for boys,“ less attention has been focused on the social difference. Thanks to simple laws of supply and demand, it is often the women who must a
40、ssert themselves romantically or be left alone on Valentines Day. “I was talking to a friend at a bar, and this girl just came up out of nowhere, grabbed him by the wrist, spun him around and took him out to the dance floor and started grinding,“ said Kelly Lynch, a junior at North Carolina, recalli
41、ng a recent experience. H)Students interviewed here said they believed their mating rituals reflected those of college students anywhere. But many of themmen and women alikesaid that the imbalanced population tends to twist behavior. I)“A lot of my friends will meet someone and go home for the night
42、 and just hope for the best the next morning,“ Ms. Lynch said, “Theyll text them and say: I had a great time. Want to hang out next week? And they dont respond.“ Even worse, “Girls feel pressured to do more than theyre comfortable with, to lock it down,“ Ms. Lynch said. And the university feels obli
43、gated to admit the most qualified applicants, regardless of gender, Mr. Farmer said. “I wouldnt want any young woman here to think that theres somebody wed rather have here than her,“ he said. J)The phenomenon has also been an area of academic inquiry, formally and informally. “On college campuses w
44、here there are far more women than men, men have all the power to control the intensity of sexual and romantic relationships,“ Kathleen A. Bogle, a sociologist at La Salle University in Philadelphia, wrote in an e-mail message. K)Her book, Hooking Up-. Sex, Dating, and Relationships on Campus, was p
45、ublished in 2008. “Women do not want to get left out in the cold, so they are competing for men on mens terms,“ she wrote. “This results in more casual hook-up encounters that do not end up leading to more serious romantic relationships. Since college women say they generally want something more tha
46、n just a casual hook-up, women end up losing out.“ L)Women on gender-imbalanced campuses are paying a social price for success and, to a degree, are being victimized by men precisely because they have outperformed them, Professor Campbell said. In this way, some colleges mirror retirement communitie
47、s, where women often find that the reward for outliving their husbands is competing with other widows for the attentions of the few surviving bachelors. M)At colleges in big cities, women do have more options. “By my sophomore year, I just had the feeling that there is nobody in this school that I c
48、ould date,“ said Ashley Crisostomo, a senior at Fordham University in New York, which is 55 percent female. She has tended to date older professionals in the city. But in a classic college town, the social life is usually limited to fraternity parties, local bars or coffee houses. And college men ca
49、n be particularly unmannerly when the numbers are in their favor. N)Several male students acknowledged that the math skewed(使偏颇 )pleasantly in their favor. “You dont have to work that hard,“ said Matt Garofalo, a senior at North Carolina. “You meet a girl at a late-night restaurant. Shes texting you the next day. “ O)But its not as if the imbalance leads to ceaseless bed-hopping, said Austin Ivey, who graduated from North Carolina last year but
