1、大学英语六级（ 2013年 12月考试改革适用）模拟试卷 94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 “Students will not use printed books any more in the future.“ You can cite examples to illustrate your point. You should write at least 150 words but no more
2、 than 200 words. Write your essay on Answer Sheet 1. Section A （ A） Tom is very busy in the summer. （ B） Tom is very diligent. （ C） He is going to visit his aunt in Florida. （ D） He may have difficulty working and studying at the same time. （ A） Sam s knee should be all right by now. （ B） It is not
3、the right moment for Sam to quit. （ C） He can understand Sam perfectly. （ D） Sam should stop playing earlier. （ A） Watching the football game played by Russia and Japan. （ B） Reading a Russian novel. （ C） Studying Russian for a whole week. （ D） Watching a Russian TV program. （ A） Edward is probably
4、nearby. （ B） Edward is a nice person. （ C） Edward is going to buy a new jacket. （ D） Edward is playing football right now. （ A） He bought a TV for his parents. （ B） He likes the supermarket very much. （ C） He didn t go to the supermarket. （ D） He went to it on his way to the school. （ A） Jim wont be
5、 able to attend the graduation. （ B） He is not going to graduate. （ C） He has nothing to do this week. （ D） She will work this week. （ A） There will be no meeting next week. （ B） He will not show up at the meeting. （ C） It will be held in the following week. （ D） There will be two meetings instead o
6、f three. （ A） That they should write the paper carefully. （ B） That they be carefully about their handwriting. （ C） That they d better finish their paper early. （ D） That they can hand it a bit later than the due time. （ A） Assignment. （ B） Entertainment. （ C） Summer vocation. （ D） Career plans. （ A
7、） He is tired of doing oral presentation. （ B） He is incompetent. （ C） He has something important to do. （ D） He dose not start because the deadline is not yet to come. （ A） They have dinner together. （ B） The woman help the man listen to his talk. （ C） The man help the woman listen to her talk. （ D
8、） They go to the library. （ A） Projector. （ B） Software. （ C） Output equipment. （ D） Slide. （ A） The system invites learners to speak directly with speakers. （ B） The system offers learners to do dictation. （ C） The system invites learners to be involved in the conversation of native speakers. （ D）
9、The system can keep record. （ A） Improve spoken English. （ B） Sharpen listening ability. （ C） Enlarge idiom vocabulary. （ D） Improve writing skills. （ A） Multimedia teaching system. （ B） A TV program. （ C） How to improve oral English. （ D） How to communicate with foreigners. Section B （ A） The place
10、 where Sahara Desert was 5,000 years ago. （ B） People lived 3,000 years ago in. （ C） The place where Takla Makan Desert was 5,000 years ago. （ D） People lived 5,000 years ago in Sahara Desert. （ A） Relics of human bodies. （ B） Bones. （ C） Food and tools. （ D） Fish and nuts. （ A） To show the spear po
11、ints are rather small. （ B） To illustrate lots of food and tools relics are found. （ C） To show people 5,000 years ago have already known how to make use of tools. （ D） To illustrate the place was full of ample food 5,000 years ago. （ A） You can understand more about your place in the society. （ B）
12、You can know more about yourself. （ C） You can anticipate more excitement. （ D） You can have more about social experiences. （ A） A simple lifestyle. （ B） A more interesting life orientation. （ C） Exciting outdoor activities. （ D） Wildness and attraction of the nature. （ A） It urges campers to treat
13、its service with respect. （ B） It urges campers to love the nature. （ C） It shows respect to the nature. （ D） It requires the campers to be clean in outdoor place. （ A） St. John s University. （ B） Massachusetts Institute of Technology. （ C） University of California, Berkeley. （ D） Yale University. （
14、 A） Lecture notes. （ B） Exams. （ C） Contact with teachers. （ D） Videos of demonstrations. （ A） About 116 schools around the world now offer course materials free online to the public. （ B） Open Course Ware only offers materials from graduate courses. （ C） Visitors can learn the same things M.I.T. st
15、udents learn, and they can receive credits toward a degree. （ D） There are more visitors of the site from outside the United States and Canada. （ A） Swedish. （ B） Portuguese. （ C） Chinese. （ D） Thai. Section C 26 My topic is handednesswhether in different sports it is better to be left or right-side
16、d or whether a more balanced approach is more successful. Im left-handed myself and I actually didnt see any【 B1】 _to my own life when I happened to start reading an article by a sports psychologist called Peter Matthews. He spent the first part of the article talking about handedness in 【 B2】 _inst
17、ead of sport, which I have to say almost put me off from reading further. But what I soon became struck by was the【 B3】 _volume of both observation and investigation he had done in many different sports and I felt persuaded that what he had to say would be of real interest. I think Matthews findings
18、 will be【 B4】 _, not so much in helping sportspeople to work on their weaker side, but more that they can help them【 B5】 _the most suitable strategies to use in a given game. Although most trainers know how important handedness is, at present they are rather reluctant to【 B6】 _the insights scientist
19、s like Matthews can give, which I think is rather【 B7】 _because focusing on individual flexibility is only part of the story. Anyway, back to the article. Matthews found a German study which looked at what he called “mixed-handedness“, that is, the capacity to use both left and right hands【 B8】 _. I
20、t looked at mixed-handedness in 40 musicians on a variety of instruments. Researchers examined a number of【 B9】 _, e.g. type of instrument played, regularity of practice undertaken and length of time playing instrument. and found the following: keyboard players had high levels of mixed-handedness, w
21、hereas string players like cellists and violinists strongly【 B10】 _one hand Also those who started younger were more mixed-handed. 27 【 B1】 28 【 B2】 29 【 B3】 30 【 B4】 31 【 B5】 32 【 B6】 33 【 B7】 34 【 B8】 35 【 B9】 36 【 B10】 Section A 36 Although interior design has existed since the beginning of archi
22、tecture, its development into a【 C1】 _field is really quite recent. Interior designers have become important partly because of the many functions that might be【 C2】 _in a single large building. The importance of interior design becomes【 C3】 _when we realize how much time we spend surrounded by four
23、walls. Whenever we need to be indoors, we want our surroundings to be as attractive and comfortable as possible. We also【 C4】 _each place to be appropriate to its use. You would be shocked if the inside of your bedroom were【 C5】 _changed to look like the inside of a restaurant. And you wouldn t feel
24、 right in a business office that has the appearance of a school. It soon becomes clear that the interior designer s most important basic【 C6】 _is the function of the particular space. For example, a theatre with poor sight lines, poor sound-shaping qualities, and too few entries and exits will not w
25、ork for its purpose, no matter how beautifully it might be【 C7】 _. Nevertheless, for any kind of space, the designer has to make many of the same kind of【 C8】 _. He or she must【 C9】 _the shapes, lighting and decoration of everything from ceiling to floor. In addition, the designer must usually selec
26、t furniture or design built-in furniture according to the functions that need to be【 C10】 _. A)obscure B)specialized C)attention D)expect E)concern F)specially G)evident H)contained I)decorated J)composed K)decisions L)suddenly M)served N)balance O)coordinate 37 【 C1】 38 【 C2】 39 【 C3】 40 【 C4】 41 【
27、 C5】 42 【 C6】 43 【 C7】 44 【 C8】 45 【 C9】 46 【 C10】 Section B 46 The Truth about the Environment A)For many environmentalists, the world seems to be getting worse. They have developed a hit-list of our main fears: that natural resources are running out; that the population is ever growing, leaving le
28、ss and less to eat; that species are becoming extinct in vast numbers, and that the planets air and water are becoming ever more polluted. B)But a quick look at the facts shows a different picture. First, energy and other natural resources have become more abundant, not less so, since the book The l
29、imits to Growth was published in 1972 by a group of scientists. Second, more food is now produced per head of the world s population than at any time in history. Fewer people are starving. Third, although species are indeed becoming extinct, only about 0.7% of them are expelled to disappear in the n
30、ext 50 years, not 25-50%, as has so often been predicted. C)And finally, most forms of environmental pollution either appear to have been exaggerated, or are transient associated with the early phases of industrialization and therefore best cured not by restricting economic growth, but by accelerati
31、ng it. One form of pollution the release of greenhouse gases that causes global warming does appear to be a phenomenon that is going to extend well into our future, but its total impact is unlikely to pose a devastating problem. A bigger problem may well turn out to be an inappropriate response to i
32、t. D)Yet opinion polls suggest that many people nurture the belief that environmental standards are declining and four factors seem to cause this disjunction between perception and reality. E)One is the lopsidedness built into scientific research. Scientific funding goes mainly to areas with many pr
33、oblems. That may be wise policy but it will also create an impression that many more potential problems exist than is the case. F)Secondly, environmental groups need to be noticed by the mass media. They also need to keep the money rolling in. Understandably, perhaps, they sometimes overstate their
34、arguments. In 1997, for example, the World Wide Fund for Nature issued a press release entitled: “Two thirds of the worlds forests lost forever“. The truth turns out to be nearer 20%. G)Though these groups are run overwhelmingly by selfless folk, they nevertheless share many of the characteristics o
35、f other lobby groups. That would matter less if people applied the same degree of scepticism to environmental lobbying as they do to lobby groups in other fields. A trade organisation arguing for, say, weaker pollution control is instantly seen as self-interested. Yet a green organisation opposing s
36、uch a weakening is seen as altruistic, even if an impartial view of the controls in question might suggest they are doing more harm than good. H)A third source of confusion is the attitude of the media. People are dearly more curious about bad news than good. Newspapers and broadcasters are there to
37、 provide what the public wants: That, however, can lead to significant distortions of perception. An example was Americas encounter with EI Nino in 1997 and 1998. This climatic phenomenon was accused of wrecking tourism, causing allergies, melting the ski-slopes, and causing 22 deaths. However, acco
38、rding to an article in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, the damage it did was estimated at US$4 billion but the benefits amounted to some US$19 billion. These came from higher winter temperatures(which saved an estimated 850 lives, reduced heating costs and diminished spring floo
39、ds caused by meltwaters). I)The fourth factor is poor individual perception. People worry that the endless rise in the amount of stuff everyone throws away will cause the world to run out of places to dispose of waste. Yet, even if Americas trash output continues to rise as it has done in the past,
40、and even if the American population doubles by 2100, all the rubbish America produces through the entire 21st century will still take up only one-12,000th of the area of the entire United States. J)So what of global warming? As we know, carbon dioxide emissions are causing the planet to warm. The be
41、st estimates are that the temperatures will rise by 2 -3 in this century, causing considerable problems, at a total cost of US$5,000 billion. K)Despite the intuition that something drastic needs to be done about such a costly problem, economic analyses dearly show it will be far more expensive to cu
42、t carbon dioxide emissions radically than to pay the costs of adaptation to the increased temperatures. A model by one of the main authors of the United Nations Climate Change Panel shows how an expected temperature increase of 2.1 degrees in 2100 would only be diminished to an increase of 1.9 degre
43、es. Or to put it another way, the temperature increase that the planet would have experienced in 2094 would be postponed to 2100. L)So this does not prevent global warming, but merely buys the world six years. Yet the cost of reducing carbon dioxide emissions, for the United States alone, will be hi
44、gher than the cost of solving the world s single, most pressing health problem: providing universal access to clean drinking water and sanitation. Such measures would avoid 2 million deaths every year, and prevent half a billion people from becoming seriously ill. M)It is crucial that we look at the
45、 facts if we want to make the best possible decisions for the future. It may be costly to be overly optimisticbut more costly still to be too pessimistic. 47 Some pollution problems have been correctly linked to industrialization. 48 The writer feels it would be better to spend money on the more urg
46、ent health problem of providing the worlds population with clean drinking water. 49 Environmentalists take a pessimistic view of the world for a number of reasons. 50 In terms of lobby groups, some receive more criticism than others. 51 The writer quotes from the World Fund for Nature to illustrate
47、how environmental groups can exaggerate their claims. 52 The number of starving people in the world has decreased in recent years. 53 The writer thinks that Americas waste problem is not as important as we have been led to believe. 54 The policy that scientific funding goes mainly to areas with many
48、 problems may seem wise, but it also creates the impression that the unseen problems are more serious than the status quo. 55 The writer suggests that newspaper print items are intended to meet their readers expectations. 56 Economic analyses show that to pay the costs of adaptation to the increased
49、 temperatures is much cheaper than to cut carbon dioxide emissions radically. Section C 56 Once it was possible to define male and female roles easily by the division of labour. Men worked outside the home and earned the income to support their families, while women cooked the meals and took care of the home and the children. These roles were firmly fixed for most people, and there was not much opportunity for women to exchange their roles. But by the
