1、大学英语六级（ 2013年 12月考试改革适用）模拟试卷 99及答案与解析 一、 Part I Writing 1 In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At the end of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After e
2、ach question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A), B), C)and D), and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre. Section A （ A） He is an unhappy man. （ B） He is a happy, frie
3、ndly man. （ C） He is an unfriendly man. （ D） He is a happy but unfriendly man. （ A） They all like it. （ B） They dont like it. （ C） They like it as much as hamburgers. （ D） They dont like it or hamburgers. （ A） She wants a skirt. （ B） She wants a skirt and a belt to go with it. （ C） She wants a skirt
4、 and a top to go with it. （ D） She wants a skirt and a hat to go with it. （ A） He is going to wash them. （ B） He is going to mend them. （ C） He is going to have them dry-cleaned. （ D） He is going to have them cleaned and mended. （ A） He wants a model train. （ B） He wants a joke book. （ C） He wants a
5、 radio. （ D） He wants a science book. （ A） Germany. （ B） England. （ C） Thailand. （ D） America. （ A） 142. （ B） 132. （ C） 122. （ D） 112. （ A） It was funny. （ B） It was pleasant. （ C） It was terrible. （ D） It was worthwhile. （ A） Campus. （ B） Sarah s home. （ C） Off campus apartment. （ D） A hotel on the
6、 west of the town. （ A） She would let them move out. （ B） She would let them repair the dishwasher again. （ C） She will sue them. （ D） She will threaten them. （ A） At 8:00 tomorrow night. （ B） At 7:30 tomorrow night. （ C） At 8:00 tonight. （ D） At 7:30 tonight. （ A） In a crowded classroom. （ B） In an
7、 empty room. （ C） In a busy street corner. （ D） In a shopping centre. （ A） The mans professor. （ B） The man s roommate. （ C） The woman s boyfriend. （ D） A neighbour. （ A） He is too sloppy. （ B） He borrows John s things. （ C） He brings guests over to the apartment. （ D） He doesnt use the kitchen enou
8、gh. （ A） He should move out of the apartment. （ B） He should kick John out of the department. （ C） He should not bring anyone to the apartment anymore. （ D） He should try to work out the problems with John. Section B （ A） They wanted to find a new continent. （ B） They did not have religious freedom.
9、 （ C） They did not have a job there. （ D） Indians persuaded them to leave. （ A） South Pacific. （ B） North Pacific. （ C） South Atlantic. （ D） North Atlantic. （ A） Fourth Thursday of December. （ B） Fourth Tuesday of November. （ C） Fourth Thursday of November. （ D） Fifth Thursday of November. （ A） Colo
10、mbian. （ B） Peru. （ C） Bolivia. （ D） Vietnam. （ A） Pay farmers to plant other crops. （ B） Forbid farmers to grow coca. （ C） Punish those farmers who run drug business. （ D） Tell farmers the harmful effect. （ A） Because the U.S. government encourages them to do so. （ B） Because they are driven by oth
11、ers. （ C） Coca is popular in Colombia. （ D） Because they can make more money from growing coca. （ A） A theatre. （ B） A cinema. （ C） A barbecue restaurant. （ D） A drive-in restaurant. （ A） French fries, hamburgers, and sparkling water. （ B） Italy fries, hamburgers, and sodas. （ C） French fries, hambu
12、rgers, and sodas. （ D） Italy fries, cakes, and coca cola. （ A） 4 cents. （ B） 15 cents. （ C） 19 cents. （ D） 25 cents. （ A） How to order a meal at McDonald. （ B） The history of restaurant. （ C） Two brothers-Mac and Dick McDonald. （ D） The development of McDonald. Section C 26 So much has the debate ov
13、er sugar entered the mainstream that it is no longer unusual to hear two “manly“ men【 B1】 _stories about how cutting out sugar from their coffee. Choosing to cut sugar out of your diet is one thing, but whether or not you can【 B2】 _cut sugar out of you portfolio is another question altogether. Earli
14、er this year, unusually hot and dry weather in Brazil made【 B3】 _regarding the effect the weather would have on global coffee, orange juice and sugar prices. Brazil holds the key to the world sugar price as it is responsible more than 20% of supply and almost 60% of global sugar【 B4】 _. But now that
15、 the first results of the Brazilian 【 B5】_are coming through, it seems the sugar price was about as exaggerated as its allegedly【 B6】 _effect on waistlines. The reason for this, explained Brendan Grundlingh, a food and beverage analyst, is that in the two to three years before the【 B7】 _fear, Brazil
16、, Thailand and India all experienced 【 B8】 _sugar cane crops. If you look at the bigger picture, sugar prices have been falling steadily since early 2012 and have now【 B9】 _more than 20% since late April. To cut a long story short, these declining prices couldn t have come at a worse time for South
17、African producers. Just as Tongaat and Illovo s operations were recovering from a drought up north, the locally listed producers had to【 B10】 _imported sugar at prices below that at which they could produce. 27 【 B1】 28 【 B2】 29 【 B3】 30 【 B4】 31 【 B5】 32 【 B6】 33 【 B7】 34 【 B8】 35 【 B9】 36 【 B10】 S
18、ection A 36 A powerful earthquake struck an area near the northern coast of Chile on Wednesday. The earthquake came a day after an even stronger quake hit the area. The earlier quake was【 C1】_at least six deaths. The United States Geological Survey says a 7.8 magnitude aftershock hit northern Chile
19、late Wednesday night, local time. Magnitude is a【 C2】 _of the energy released at the centre, or source, of an earthquake. U.S. officials said the aftershock was centred about 23【 C3】 _south of the port of Iquique. They said it struck at a depth of 20 kilometres below sea level. The aftershock led Ch
20、ilean officials to order thousands of people away from【 C4】_. It also led to warnings of high【 C5】 _waves in parts of the Pacific Ocean. The orders and tsunami warnings were later【 C6】 _. The aftershock struck a day after an even more powerful earthquake hit northern Chile. That quake was centred in
21、 an area about 100 kilometres northwest of Iquique. The city is home to nearly 200,000 people. The quake was felt in Bolivia and Peru. It also【 C7】 _tsunami warnings as far as Japan. The warnings were cancelled hours later. Chilean police and soldiers guarded coastal【 C8】 _to prevent attacks on home
22、s and businesses. Television video showed damaged buildings in Iquique. But officials found surprisingly light damage from the quake. President Michelle Bachelet visited the affected area. She spoke to the nation about the disaster. She said【 C9】 _measures have been taken to protect lives and proper
23、ty. And she said the government will continue to work all the time that is necessary to【 C10】 _this emergency and protect our citizens. A)cope with B)promote C)led to D)kilometres E)due to F)measurement G)tornado H)kilogram I)appropriate J)communities K)compensate L)tsunami M)blamed for N)coastal ar
24、eas O)cancelled 37 【 C1】 38 【 C2】 39 【 C3】 40 【 C4】 41 【 C5】 42 【 C6】 43 【 C7】 44 【 C8】 45 【 C9】 46 【 C10】 Section B 46 A)Reduce, reuse, and recycle. Recycling has become a part of American life. It also is an important part of the waste-processing industry. In fact, many cities and towns in the Uni
25、ted States now have recycling programs. To learn how such a program works, we will go to a recycling centre in the eastern state of Maryland. B)The recycle bin in the home or office is often the last stop for empty containers. But for papers, plastics, cardboards and cans, it is the beginning of a t
26、rip thousands of kilometres long. Yehenew Gedshew directs a recycling centre near Washington, DC. “As long as people throw their trash, we have a job.“ His recycling centre processes about 35 tons of material an hour. How does it process that much every hour? Yehenew Gedshew says the business is hig
27、hly-organized. “First what happens is, dump trucks bring materials to our site. They dump it on the tipping floor. It goes to the first screen where the cardboard and the rest of the material is sorted out.“ The rest of the material goes on a belt that carries the glass and plastic to the last scree
28、ning area(筛分区 ). The glass gets crushed and the plastic gets sorted and flattened. C)Local recycling programs often require people to separate plastics, papers and glass. But Yehenew Gedshew says sorters at his recycling centre do all that work. He says the centre ships most of its plastic to a proc
29、essing centre in North Carolina, more than 500 kilometres to the south. At that centre, mountains of bottles become piles of plastic. They are ready to be melted and shaped into something new. D)From the store to the recycling bin, and from there to just about anywhere you can imagine, plastic bottl
30、es spend a lot of time on the road. And so have we. We now go to Fayetteville, North Carolina. The city is home to the Clear Path Recycling centre. It is one of the largest plastic recycling centres in the United States. E)The Clear Path Recycling Centre receives 8 to 10 trucks a day. That means mor
31、e than 18,000 kilograms of plastic every day. The goods come to the centre in large piles or bales, like the ones at the recycling centre in Maryland. F)Not far from the Clear Path Recycling is a huge storage area for the plastic objects. They enter the recycling centre to begin the process that wil
32、l change them. “This is where the whole bottles enter the whole bottle wash. Its just like your front-end loading washing machine at your house. It s just a lot longer, and a lot bigger.“ G)Hot water washes paper labels off the drink bottles and removes dirt. The plastic is broken up into what the p
33、lastics recycling industry calls “PET flake(PET碎片 ).“ Another centre will buy the flake to melt and mould into something else. H)Plastic bottles spend their lives on the move. Machines mould and fill them with our favourite drinks. When we are done drinking, machines destroy the bottles and make the
34、m into new bottles. Their journey never ends. But our trip has come to an end in Wilson, North Carolina. I)In our program, we have described the trip made by plastic bottles from stores to recycling bins and then to recycling centres. The bottles are then broken down into small pieces, which are put
35、 into bags. Now, we will witness the rebirth of a plastic bottle. J)Mark Rath is a supervisor at Peninsula Packaging. At his business, pieces of plastic become products like carry-out trays at food stores and restaurants. Peninsula Packaging melts and flattens plastic so it can be shaped and moulded
36、. The process is complex. “We take the clear chips like this, and it goes into an oven, and it cooks for about 3 to 4 hours in that oven.“ K)The plastic cooks at almost 200 . When the melted plastic comes out of the oven, it is made into carry-out trays or other food packaging. “We unwind the plasti
37、c into a very long oven where we heat it again, and then well form it in a forming station. Well follow it through and see what happens to it.“ What happens to the recycled plastic involves a vacuum, lots of pressure, and believe it or notmore recycling. L)Mark Rath says all of the plastics in this
38、packaging centre become some kind of container in their next lives. “Thatll end up being a fresh-cut-salad base. Not sure where it goes, but itll end up some place with celery and carrots and tomatoes.“ It has taken several days, but a plastic bottle like the one we bought in Washington, DC has now
39、become a salad tray in North Carolina. M)Countless things affect the health of our environment. What we take from nature may not harm it as much as what we add to it. For years, many people have harmed the environment by throwing away plastic grocery bags. But in Washington, a “bag tax“ has changed
40、the behaviour of many people, and the way business affects the environment. N)The Anacostia River flows through southeast Washington into the better-known Potomac River. The Anacostia is often called the city s “other river.“ Tommy Wells is a member of the Washington, DC city council. He is worried
41、about the health of river. He notes that some people have called the Anacostia, one of the 10 most polluted rivers in the country. Mr. Wells says he was tired of seeing so many plastic bags in or near the river. “I wanted something that got into peoples heads; not their pockets.“ O)Stores in Washing
42、ton now require people to pay five cents for each disposable plastic bag. The money goes into the “Anacostia Riv6r Clean Up Fund.“ People who bring their own bag do not pay anything extra. Has the “bag tax“ helped? Bret Bolin is with the Anacostia Watershed Society, a group that is working to protec
43、t the river. “In just about 3 and a half months of the bag fee, people were already reporting that they were seeing a lot less bags in the river and at cleanup sites than in past years.“ Councilman Tommy Wells agrees that the bag tax worked. “There was a 60 percent reduction of the amount of bags th
44、at were pulled out of the river.“ The local government estimates that stores gave shoppers almost 300 million bags in 2009. Mr. Bolin says the bag tax caused the number to drop sharply. “And they were estimating something like 55 million being distributed in 2010, which is an 80 percent reduction, w
45、hich is amazing.“ 47 Bag tax has played a key role in reducing bags in and near the Anacostia River. 48 After the trunks bring in trash the first thing we need to do is sorting them out. 49 The Anacostia River is greatly polluted by many plastic bags and it worries Tommy Wells a lot to see people ju
46、st care about making money instead of environment protection. 50 The Clear Path Recycling Centre receives a large amount of plastic everyday. 51 Many things can be harmful to environment such as throwing away plastic bags but this behaviour has been changed due to the bag tax. 52 Plastics at Peninsu
47、la Packaging will become different containers such as a salad tray, in many places across the country. 53 After hot water washes off labels and dirt, the plastic will be broken into small pieces waiting to be melted and molded into other things. 54 Plastic bottles spend their life on the move from t
48、he drink container to the recycling centre to be made into new bottles or other containers. 55 In a huge storage area the bottles will enter an enormous machine which looks like a big front-end loading washing machine in people s home. 56 Peninsula Packaging melts and flattens plastic in a big oven
49、so it can be shaped and melded into new things like carry-out trays. Section C 56 As an immigrant to North American, you will need to ensure that employers and organizations such as colleges and universities properly recognize your international credentials. These may be trade certificates, but also educational qualifications such as degrees or diplomas, that you have completed or partially-completed. It is common for hiring personnel to have little or no trainin
