1、大学英语六级（ 2013年 12月考试改革适用）模拟试卷 89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 “Are Western Festivals Undermining Chinese Culture?“ You can cite examples to illustrate your point. You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200
2、 words. Write your essay on Answer Sheet 1. Section A （ A） 40 （ B） 80 （ C） 120 （ D） 160 （ A） Customer and shop assistant. （ B） Student and librarian. （ C） Customer and waitress. （ D） Employee and manager. （ A） At a hotel. （ B） At a university. （ C） At a museum. （ D） At a news conference. （ A） She th
3、inks the man doesnt need surgery. （ B） She doesn t think the doctor is right. （ C） She doesnt think the final is important. （ D） She is looking forward to seeing him come back. （ A） Get involved in discussion. （ B） Deliver presentation without a plan. （ C） Talk with the professor. （ D） Fail the cour
4、se. （ A） He doesn t think his ability can get improved from the job. （ B） He is not well paid. （ C） He is not qualified. （ D） He wants to spend more time with his family. （ A） She is lonely. （ B） She doesnt want to go with the man. （ C） She needs help. （ D） She d like to invite David to watch movies
5、 with them. （ A） She is cold. （ B） She can not agree with the man more. （ C） She doesnt have a scarf yet. （ D） He wants to buy her a scarf. （ A） More than a year. （ B） Two months. （ C） More than two weeks. （ D） One or two days. （ A） The man. （ B） The woman. （ C） Bob. （ D） Noel. （ A） He is a friend o
6、f the woman. （ B） He is the woman s ex-husband. （ C） He is a lovely dog. （ D） He is a tenant. （ A） Mother and son. （ B） Teacher and student. （ C） Landlady and tenant. （ D） Sister and brother. （ A） The boy s parents. （ B） The boy s summer holiday. （ C） The boys study. （ D） An illness. （ A） They are v
7、ery good parents. （ B） They quarrel a lot. （ C） They have only one child. （ D） They love each other very much. （ A） He will spend it in England. （ B） He will study history. （ C） He is going to live in the country. （ D） He is going to learn French. Section B （ A） Solar activity. （ B） Greenhouse effec
8、ts. （ C） Warming on all the planets and their moons. （ D） No definite answer. （ A） A year on Pluto is nearly 124 Mars years long. （ B） We can conclude that the warming on Pluto is a long-term climate trend. （ C） Pluto does not belong to the Solar system. （ D） Pluto is the moon of Mars. （ A） Worried.
9、 （ B） Surprised. （ C） Objective. （ D） Subjective. （ A） Eight. （ B） Seven. （ C） Six. （ D） Five. （ A） Four. （ B） Fourteen. （ C） Five. （ D） Fifteen. （ A） They agreed to kill all the sick birds. （ B） They agreed to report any breakout of bird flu. （ C） They endorsed a bird flu-prevention “road map“. （ D
10、） They agreed to carry out research in this field. （ A） Alaska. （ B） Oklahoma. （ C） California. （ D） Hawaii. （ A） Lake Tulainyo. （ B） Mojave Desert. （ C） Death Valley. （ D） The Salton Sea. （ A） About 3 miles. （ B） Only 100 miles. （ C） 282 feet. （ D） 14,494 feet. （ A） The Pacific Ocean. （ B） San Joaq
11、uin Valley. （ C） Mojave Desert. （ D） Oregon and Washington. Section C 26 Some people may overeat because theyre unable to taste and【 B1】 _the fat in foods, new research suggests. People whose mouths are less sensitive to fatty acids require higher 【 B2】 _of fat to generate signals from the【 B3】 _tha
12、t tell the brain, “Im full.“ Without a fullness signal, people keep eating, explains Russell Keast, of Deakin University in Australia. “The overeating eventually leads to【 B4】 _.“ In a new experiment appearing in the journal, Appetite, Keast and colleagues report that people with poor fat sensitivit
13、y ate【 B5】 _more calories and more food at lunch after having a high-fat breakfast than those who has good fat sensitivity. In the new study, 24【 B6】 _were tested for fatty acid sensitivity. Each then ate four different breakfastsa high-fat breakfast, high-carb breakfast, high-protein or a balanced
14、meal over four separate days. 【 B7】 _were told not to consume any food or【 B8】 _(except for water up to an hour before lunch)between breakfast and lunch. For lunch, a buffet-style meal was served that included soup, salad, grapes, pastries and【 B9】 _. People were instructed to eat until comfortably
15、full. Following the high-fat breakfasts, the 10 people with impaired fat sensitivity consumed significantly more calories and food at lunch【 B10】 _the other volunteers. But there were no significant differences in the amount of food consumed at lunch after the other breakfasts. 27 【 B1】 28 【 B2】 29
16、【 B3】 30 【 B4】 31 【 B5】 32 【 B6】 33 【 B7】 34 【 B8】 35 【 B9】 36 【 B10】 Section A 36 Coupled with the growing quantity of information is the development of technologies which enable the storage and【 C1】 _of more information with greater speed to more locations than has ever been possible before. Compu
17、ter technology makes it possible to【 C2】 _vast amounts of data in machine-readable files, and to program computers to locate specific information.【 C3】 _developments enable the sending of messages via television, radio, and very shortly, electronic mail to【 C4】_people with multitudes of messages.【 C
18、5】 _have extended the power of communications to report events at the instant of occurrence. Expertise can be shared world wide through teleconferencing, and problems in【 C6】 _can be settled without the participants leaving their homes and/or jobs to travel to a distant conference site. Technology h
19、as【 C7】 _the sharing of information and the storage and delivery of information, thus making more information【 C8】 _to more people. In this world of change and complexity, the need for information is of greatest importance. Those people who have accurate, reliable【 C9】 _information to solve the day-
20、to-day problems, the critical problems of their business, social and family life, will survive and succeed. “Knowledge is power“ may well be the truest saying and【 C10】 _to information may be the most critical requirement of all people. A)satellites B)access C)dispute D)informal E)delivery F)bombard
21、 G)formerly H)complicated I)available J)solutions K)up-to-date L)facilitated M)store N)capability O)telecommunications 37 【 C1】 38 【 C2】 39 【 C3】 40 【 C4】 41 【 C5】 42 【 C6】 43 【 C7】 44 【 C8】 45 【 C9】 46 【 C10】 Section B 46 A)The Supreme Court unambiguously ruled Wednesday that privacy rights are not
22、 sacrificed to 21 st century technology, saying unanimously that police generally must obtain a warrant before searching the cell phone of someone they arrest. B)Modern cell phones “hold for many Americans the privacies of life,“ Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote for a court united behind the
23、opinions expansive language. “The fact that technology now allows an individual to carry such information in his hand does not make the information any less worthy of the protection for which the Founders fought.“ Roberts said that in most cases when police seize a cell phone from a suspect, the ans
24、wer is simple: “Get a warrant.“ C)The ruling has no impact on National Security Agency data collection programs revealed in the past year or law enforcement use of aggregated digital information. But lawyers involved in those issues said the emphatic declarations signaled the justices interest in th
25、e dangers of government overreach. D)During oral arguments, the justices seemed divided over the issue. But they united behind soaring language from Roberts about privacy concerns in the digital era in which 90 percent of Americans carry cell phones containing sensitive information. “The term cell p
26、hone is itself misleading shorthand; many of these devices are in fact minicomputers that also happen to have the capacity to be used as a telephone,“ Roberts wrote. “They could just as easily be called cameras, video players, calendars, tape recorders, libraries, diaries, albums, televisions, maps,
27、 or newspapers.“ E)The court is often criticized for being behind the times in considering technological advances. But Robertss opinion was filled with unpleasant facts“the average smart phone user has installed 33 applications, which together can form a revealing montage(蒙太奇 )of the users life“ and
28、 concerns about modern innovations such as cloud computing“cell phone users often may not know whether particular information is stored on the device or in the cloud.“ F)Jeffrey Fisher, a Stanford law professor who argued on behalf of a defendant who said the search violated his constitutional right
29、 to be free of unreasonable searches, praised the ruling. “The decision brings the Fourth Amendment into the digital age,“ Fisher said. “The core of the decision is that digital information is different. It triggers privacy concerns far more profound than ordinary physical objects.“ G)Ellen Canale,
30、a Justice Department spokeswoman, said the department will work with law enforcement to ensure that the court s decision is implemented.“Our commitment to vigorously enforcing the criminal laws and protecting the public while respecting the privacy interests protected by the Fourth Amendment is unwa
31、vering,“ she said. H)In general, warrants are required for searches, but the courts precedents have said that a persons privacy expectations shrink considerably after an arrest. Police may protect themselves and others by searching the arrestee for weapons or securing evidence that might be destroye
32、d. I)Roberts said he “cannot deny“ that the decision will have an impact on the ability of law enforcement to combat crime. “Privacy comes at a cost,“ he wrote. But he said police can use their own technology to ensure that the information on cell phones that might contain critical evidence is not e
33、rased or lost. He also said there could be “case-specific“ exceptions to the warrant rule. The court in the past had approved searching many objects found on a suspect, Roberts noted, including a cigarette pack found to have contained drugs. But allowing them to search a cell phone is very close to
34、ransacking a person s home, he said. J)“Indeed, a cell phone search would typically expose to the government far more than the most exhaustive search of a house: A phone not only contains in digital form many sensitive records previously found in the home; it also contains a broad array of private i
35、nformation never found in a home in any form,“ he said. For instance: “Past location information is a standard feature on many smart phones and can reconstruct someone s specific movements down to the minute, not only around town but also within a particular building.“ K)He said technology also make
36、s it easier for law enforcement to secure approval from a judge that a search is justified Canale said the Justice Department would work on that “We will make use of whatever technology is available to preserve evidence on cell phones while seeking a warrant, and we will assist our agents in determi
37、ning when urgent circumstances or another applicable exception to the warrant requirement will permit them to search the phone immediately without a warrant,“ she said. L)Justice Samuel A. Alito put in an opinion approving the judgment, despite reservations about what it might mean for law enforceme
38、nt. He also urged legislatures and Congress to get involved. “Many forms of modern technology are making it easier and easier for both government and private entities to collect a great amount of information about the lives of ordinary Americans, and at the same time, many ordinary Americans are cho
39、osing to make public much information that was seldom revealed to outsiders just a few decades ago,“ Alito wrote. “In light of these developments, it would be very unfortunate if privacy protection in the 21 st century were left primarily to the federal courts using the blunt instrument of the Fourt
40、h Amendment.“ M)The court ruling came in the consideration of two cases in which lower courts arrived at different conclusions. N)One involved Brima Wurie, who was picked up in Boston on suspicion of selling cocaine in 2007. While he was in police custody, his phone kept receiving calls from a numbe
41、r identified as “my house.“ Using the telephone number and a reverse directory, police located his address, obtained a warrant to search his home, and found cocaine, marijuana(大麻 )and a weapon. In a 2-to-l decision, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals threw out the evidence against Wurie. The major
42、ity support a rule that said warrantless cell phone data searches are “categorically unlawful,“ given the “governments failure to demonstrate that they are ever necessary to promote officer safety or prevent the destruction of evidence.“ O)A case from California went the other way. David Leon Riley
43、was pulled over in 2009 by a San Diego police officer for an expired car registration. Police quickly discovered that Rileys drivers license was suspended and later found guns under the cars hood. Police also examined his smart phone and found language that led them to believe Riley had gang connect
44、ions. A photograph on the phone linked him to a car that police said had been used to flee a shooting. Riley was accused of murder and other charges, convicted, and sentenced to more than 15 years in prison. A California court approved the officers actions, and similar conflicting decisions have bee
45、n recorded across the country. 47 A case in which the court support the officers actions of searching the cellphone of the suspect without a warrant. 48 Not only the court but also the legislatures and Congress should participate into the protection of privacy concerning cell phones. 49 New technolo
46、gies can help to preserve evidence on a cell phone and the Justice Department should specify the circumstances in which immediate searches are necessary. 50 Roberts words about the multi-functions of the cellphone made a big influence on the justices opinions in the oral argument. 51 The Justice Dep
47、artment will cooperate with the law enforcement to ensure the implement of the new decision of the Supreme Court. 52 A cell phone search will reveal more personal information including the owners recent movements, than the search of a house. 53 A Stanford law professor praised the decision of the Su
48、preme Court and said the digital information has a more profound influence on the privacy than physical objects. 54 A case in which the warrantless cell phone data searches are not favored by the majority. 55 Though warrants are needed when there is a search but when it comes to the arrest people s
49、privacy is often violated due to the safety of the police and securing the evidence. 56 The Supreme Court ruled that a warrant is needed before the police search the cell phone of the arrested people. Section C 56 Technically, any substance other than food that alters our bodily or mental functioning is a drug. Many people mistakenly believe the term drug refers only to some sort of medicine or an illegal chemical taken by drug addicts. They don t
