1、大学英语六级（ 2013年 12月考试改革适用）模拟试卷 97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 “Academic Dishonesty on Campus“. You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words. Write your essay on Answer Sheet 1. Section A （ A） St. John
2、s Cathedral. （ B） St. James Cathedral. （ C） St. Paul s Cathedral. （ D） St. Patrick s Cathedral. （ A） It is much flatter than Japan. （ B） It is more mountainous than Japan. （ C） It is as flat as Japan. （ D） The mountains in the north are much higher and much more rocky. （ A） It costs as much as $150
3、billion a year in lower productivity. （ B） It costs as much as $ 15 billion a year in lower productivity. （ C） It results in unnecessary employee sick leave. （ D） It results in higher medical costs. （ A） She is under eighteen. （ B） She cannot pay off her debt. （ C） She is speech-impaired. （ D） She i
4、s an illegal immigrant. （ A） All modern cities are similar. （ B） There are different types of modern cities. （ C） All modern cities have a large population. （ D） All modern cities are heavily polluted. （ A） They usually stay in London and get married. （ B） They usually go overseas to get married. （
5、C） They usually go back to where their parents live to get married. （ D） They usually get married in a registry office. （ A） She thinks that the countrys problems all come from overpopulation. （ B） She thinks that the country s problems all come from deflation. （ C） She believes the country s proble
6、m is largely due to inflation. （ D） She believes the country s problem is largely due to unemployment. （ A） It is about a fairy tale in which Alice meets usual creatures. （ B） It is about a fairy tale of Alice encountering the prince. （ C） It is about a fairy tale of Alice encountering seven dwarfs.
7、 （ D） It is about a fairyland in which Alice has interesting and unusual adventures. （ A） Which company the man has worked for. （ B） What the man s advantage and disadvantage are. （ C） Whether the man has any experience as a security guard. （ D） Whether the man has worked for any alarm system manufa
8、cturer. （ A） He prefers to sleep late in the morning. （ B） He writes for the local paper in the morning. （ C） He has classes during the day. （ D） He wants a higher-paying evening job. （ A） Complete an application form. （ B） Wait a few minutes for the result. （ C） Go back home and wait for the result
9、. （ D） Complete his resume as soon as possible. （ A） Workers who are open to new ideas. （ B） Workers who are good at teamwork. （ C） Workers who are hard-working. （ D） Workers who are potential leaders. （ A） To form successful groups. （ B） To balance conflicting needs. （ C） To deal with uncooperative
10、 workers. （ D） To create harmonious environment. （ A） People who can think independently. （ B） People who will obey the system. （ C） People who can solve problems. （ D） People who are diligent. （ A） Managers should demonstrate good behaviour. （ B） Managers should increase financial incentives. （ C）
11、Managers should encourage co-operation early on. （ D） Managers should call for innovation. Section B （ A） Because it was originated as a ceremony for harvest. （ B） Because it was long forgotten by modern time. （ C） Because it started before Christianity. （ D） Because there was no written record abou
12、t this festival. （ A） Children play treat or trick from door to door. （ B） People take their harvest gifts to Old People s Homes or to hospitals. （ C） Teachers and students bring food and flowers to decorate the school hall. （ D） People decorate the churches with flowers, fruit and vegetables and ha
13、ve a special service. （ A） Because a corn dolly would drive away bad luck. （ B） Because a corn dolly would bring them a good harvest. （ C） Because a corn dolly would decorate the farm. （ D） Because a corn dolly was the mascot of a family. （ A） He thought he might rent it. （ B） He decided he would bu
14、y it. （ C） He felt it was too expensive for him. （ D） He was unsure whether to buy it. （ A） He had experienced severe family problems. （ B） He struggled to become a successful author. （ C） He suffered a serious illness. （ D） He underwent his career flop. （ A） He viewed it as a rich source of materia
15、l for his books. （ B） He viewed it as a typical building of the region. （ C） He viewed it as way to escape from his work. （ D） He viewed it as a way to recapture his childhood happiness. （ A） It is the time when students are doing part-time jobs. （ B） It is the time before students graduate from col
16、lege. （ C） It is the time when students just graduate from college. （ D） It is the time when students work in the kinds of jobs they might want to have some day. （ A） Because they want to increase their working experience. （ B） Because they do not yet know what kind of permanent job they want. （ C）
17、Because they want to get more income. （ D） Because they do not yet know what kind of working environment they want. （ A） Students can learn about different kinds of jobs. （ B） They can learn skills and gain valuable experience. （ C） They can meet important people. （ D） They can get well paid. （ A） I
18、t was established in George Washington University in 1937. （ B） It was established in the National Museum of American History in 1937. （ C） It was established in the National Air and Space Museum in 1937. （ D） It was established in the National Building Museum in 1937. Section C 26 On January 10, 19
19、62, an enormous piece of glacier【 B1】 _and tumbled down the side of a mountain in Peru. A mere seven minutes later, when【 B2】 _ice finally came to a stop ten miles down the mountain, it had taken the lives of 4,000 people. This disaster is one of the most【 B3】 _examples of a very common events: an a
20、valanche of snow. Because it is overly cold at high altitudes, snow rarely melts. It just keeps【 B4】 _ higher and higher. Glaciers are eventually created when the weight of the snow is so great that the lower layers are pressed into solid ice. But most【 B5】_occur long before this happens. As snow ac
21、cumulates on a steep slope, it reaches a critical point at which the slightest【 B6】 _ will send it sliding into the valley below. Even an avalanche of light power can be dangerous, but the Peruvian【 B7】_was particularly terrible because it was caused by a heavy layer of ice. It is established that t
22、he ice【 B8】 _ weighed three million tons. As it crashed down the steep mountainside like a【 B9】 _ snow plough, it swept up trees, boulders and tons of topsoil, and completely crushed and destroyed the six villages that lay in its path. At present, there is no way to predict or avoid such enormous av
23、alanches, but, luckily, they are very rare. Scientists are【 B10】 _studying the smaller, more common avalanches, to try to understand what causes them. 27 【 B1】 28 【 B2】 29 【 B3】 30 【 B4】 31 【 B5】 32 【 B6】 33 【 B7】 34 【 B8】 35 【 B9】 36 【 B10】 Section A 36 The American【 C1】 _system, is organized aroun
24、d a basically private-enterprise, market-oriented economy in which【 C2】 _largely determine what shall be produced by spending their money in the marketplace for those goods and services that they want most. Private businessmen,【 C3】 _to make profits, produce these goods and services in【 C4】 _with ot
25、her businessmen; and the profit motive, operating under competitive pressures, largely determines how these goods and services are produced. Thus, in the American economic system it is the demand of individual consumers,【 C5】 _with the desire of businessmen to【 C6】 _profits and the desire of individ
26、ual to maximize their incomes, that together determine what shall be produced and how resources are used to produce it. An important factor in a market-oriented economy is the【 C7】 _by which consumer demands can be expressed and responded to by producers. In the American economy, this mechanism is p
27、rovided by a price system, a process in which prices rise and fall in【 C8】 _to relative demands of consumers and supplies offered by seller-producers. If the product is in【 C9】 _supply relative to the demand, the price will be bid up and some consumers will be eliminated from the market. If, on the
28、other hand, producing more of a commodity results in reducing its cost, this will tend to increase the supply offered by seller-producers, which in turn will lower the price and permit more consumers to buy the product. Thus, price is the【 C10】 _mechanism in the American economic system. A)competiti
29、on B)maximize C)short D)coupled E)individual F)response G)eliminated H)private I)economic J)striving K)regulating L)mechanism M)consumers N)political O)results 37 【 C1】 38 【 C2】 39 【 C3】 40 【 C4】 41 【 C5】 42 【 C6】 43 【 C7】 44 【 C8】 45 【 C9】 46 【 C10】 Section B 46 Prison Studies A)Many who today hear
30、 me somewhere in person, or on television, or those who read something Ive said, will think I went to school far beyond the eighth grade. This impression is due entirely to my prison studies. B)It had really begun back in the Charlestown Prison, when Bimbi first made me feel envy of his stock of kno
31、wledge. Bimbi had always taken charge of any conversation he was in, and I had tried to emulate him. But every book I picked up had few sentences which didn t contain anywhere from one to nearly all of the words that might as well have been in Chinese. When I just skipped those words, of course, I r
32、eally ended up with little idea of what the book said. So I had come to the Norfolk Prison Colony still going through only book-reading motions. Pretty soon, I would have quit even these motions, unless I had received the motivation that I did. C)I saw that the best thing I could do was get hold of
33、a dictionary to study, to learn some words. I was lucky enough to reason also that I should try to improve my penmanship. It was sad. I couldnt even write in a straight line. It was both ideas together that moved me to request a dictionary along with some tablets and pencils from the Norfolk Prison
34、Colony School. D)I spent two days just thumbing uncertainly through the dictionary s pages. Ive never realized so many words existed! I didnt know which words I needed to learn. Finally, to start some kind of action, I began copying. E)In my slow, painstaking, ragged handwriting, I copied into my ta
35、blet everything printed on that first page, down to the punctuation marks. I believe it took me a day. Then, aloud, I read back, to myself, everything I ve written on the tablet. Over and over, aloud, to myself, I read my own handwriting. F)I woke up the next morning, thinking about those words imme
36、nsely proud to realize that not only had I written so much at one time, but I ve written words that I never knew were in the world. Moreover, with a little effort, I also could remember what many of these words meant. I reviewed the words whose meanings I didnt remember. Funny thing, from the dictio
37、nary s first page right now, that “aardvark“ springs to my mind. The dictionary had a picture of it, a long-tailed, long-eared, burrowing African mammal, which lives off termites caught by sticking out its tongue as an anteater does for ants. G)I was so fascinated that I went on I copied the diction
38、ary s next page. And the same experience came when I studied that. With every succeeding page, I also learned of people and places and events from history. Actually the dictionary is like a miniature encyclopaedia. Finally the dictionary s A section had filled a whole tablet and I went on into the B
39、 s. That was the way I started copying what eventually became the entire dictionary. I went a lot faster after so much practice helped me to pick up handwriting speed. Between what I wrote in my tablet, and writing letters, during the rest of my time in prison I would guess I wrote a million words.
40、H)I suppose it was inevitable that as my word-base broadened, I could for the first time pick up a book and read and now begin to understand what the book was saying. Anyone who has read a great deal can imagine the new world that opened. Let me tell you something; from then until I left that prison
41、, in every free moment I had, if I was not reading in the library, I was reading on my bunk. You couldnt have got me out of books with a wedge. Between Mr. Muhammads teachings, my correspondence, my visitors, and my reading of books, months passed without my even thinking about being imprisoned. In
42、fact, up to then, I never had been so truly free in my life . I)As you can imagine, especially in a prison where there was heavy emphasis on rehabilitation, an inmate was smiled upon if he demonstrated an unusually intense interest in books. There was a sizable number of well-read inmates, especiall
43、y the popular debaters. Some were said by many to be practically walking encyclopaedias. They were almost celebrities. No university would ask any student to devour literature as I did when this new world opened to me, of being able to read and understand. J)I read more in my room than in the librar
44、y itself. An inmate who was known to read a lot could check out more than the permitted maximum number of books. I preferred reading in the total isolation of my own room. K)When I had progressed to really serious reading, every night at about ten p.m. I would be outraged with the “lights out“. It a
45、lways seemed to catch me right in the middle of something engrossing. L)Fortunately, right outside my door was a corridor light that cast a glow into my room. The glow was enough to read by, once my eyes adjusted to it. So when “lights out“ came, I would sit on the floor where I could continue readi
46、ng in that glow. M)At one-hour intervals the night guards paced past every room. Each time I heard the approaching footsteps, I jumped into bed and feigned sleep. And as soon as the guard passed, I got back out of bed onto the floor area of that light-glow, where I would read for another fifty-eight
47、 minutes until the guard approached again. That went on until three or four every morning. Three or four hours of sleep a night was enough for me. Often in the years in the streets I had slept less than that. N)I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading opened to me. I knew right there
48、in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read a-woke inside me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive. I certainly wasn t seeking any degree, the way a college confers a status symbol upon its students. My homemade education gave me,
49、 with every additional book that I read, a little bit more sensitivity to the deafness, dumbness, and blindness that was afflicting the black race in America. Not long ago, an English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, “Whats your alma mater?“ I told him, “Books.“ You will never catch me with a free fifteen minutes in which Im not studying something I feel might be able to help the black man . O)Every time I catch a pl
