1、大学英语六级（2013 年 12 月考试改革适用）模拟试卷 100（无答案）一、Part I Writing1 For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay about the impact of social networking by referring to the saying “Social networking platforms drive a man closer to those in neighboring continents, while driving him further apart fro
2、m those in his neighborhood.“ You can give examples to illustrate your point and then explain what you can do to avoid the bad effects of social networking. You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.Section A（A）He didnt like the food there.（B） The food there is the best in the a
3、rea.（C） Italian food is not as good as Chinese food.（D）He didnt know what the food was like there.（A）Check her schedule.（B） Go to the concert with him.（C） Get some exercise.（D）Attend the concert.（A）He usually assigns homework.（B） He usually talks quietly.（C） He didnt teach class today.（D）He acted li
4、ke a friend today.（A）Bill is not losing emotional control.（B） Bill is more intelligent than he seems.（C） Bill made an excellent copy of the parts.（D）Bill should seek professional advice.（A）To return the shoes and get a refund.（B） To buy another pair of shoes.（C） To change the shoes for another style
5、.（D）To change the shoes for a different color.（A）The woman should have studied Spanish in Spain.（B） The woman didnt study Spain in high school.（C） Living in Spain helped improve the womans Spanish.（D）The woman must have had a good Spanish teacher.（A）He wants to keep informed while hes absent.（B） He
6、didnt check the details of the report.（C） He has just come back to work.（D）He has to be away longer than expected.（A）She doesnt expect to enjoy the theater.（B） Shes sorry she cant go with the man.（C） She thinks the theater will be too crowded.（D）She rarely goes to outdoor plays.（A）He cant find his o
7、ffice key.（B） He has misplaced some exams.（C） He is unable to speak out.（D）He doesnt enjoy teaching.（A）Mark the latest course assignment.（B） Put a cancellation notice on the classroom door.（C） Make an appointment with the doctor.（D）Return some exam papers to his students.（A）Teach Dons class while he
8、s absent.（B） Give Professor Webster the key to Dons office.（C） Leave the assignment on the board in Dons classroom.（D）Bring Don the homework that is due today.（A）Copy all the assignment from the blackboard.（B） Finish the assignment on a required page.（C） Go to attend another class in the same buildi
9、ng.（D）Prepare for a group presentation in the next class.（A）From a special seminar.（B） From a cultural documentary.（C） From what she just read.（D）From her Canadian friend.（A）In New Mexico.（B） In British Columbia.（C） In Alberta.（D）In Arizona.（A）They prefer cool temperatures.（B） They can survive extre
10、me conditions.（C） They are vulnerable to radiation.（D）They have a very short life span.Section B（A）It allows one to show his personal information.（B） It offers only the childrens personal information.（C） It is against parents will to educate the kids.（D）It only offers stories about other people.（A）I
11、ts a reliable way to make friends online.（B） It is convenient to get in touch with their parents.（C） It is regarded as a way of judging high school popularity.（D）It is regarded as a way of judging subject scores.（A）There are too many complaints from net users.（B） Hackers attack of MySpace cannot be
12、forbidden.（C） Parents cannot help checking childrens information.（D）It is easy for trouble-makers to do harm to children.（A）Do parents like MySpace?（B） Is MySpace good or bad?（C） MySpace is the home of children.（D）MySpace is the bank of childrens information.（A）They may feel exhausted.（B） They may f
13、eel very nervous.（C） They may have heartache.（D）They may suffer a cold.（A）The building method the builders use to save energy.（B） The limit of the flow of air between inside and outside.（C） The use of man-made building materials.（D）The limit of air-flow and the man-made materials.（A）To let out clean
14、 gas.（B） To take in harmful gas.（C） To use various plants.（D）To let the air flow freely.（A）The plane cant fly without air.（B） The plane needs air for its refueling.（C） It meets the passengers needs.（D）It meets the pilots needs.（A）The plane flies at high altitudes.（B） The plane is filled with air.（C）
15、 The metal structure of the plane is very strong.（D）A small part of the plane cracks.（A）To find out exactly what happens.（B） To save fuel to fly longer.（C） To find out where the big stone is.（D）To fly even more slowly. Section C26 Although one might not think so from some of the criticism of it, adv
16、ertising is essential to our life. Advertising is necessary【B1】_ communicating with others, of telling them about the goods and services that are offered. And advertising helps a great deal to【B2】_a rising standard of living.In talking about advertising, one should not think only【B3】_ a commercial o
17、n television, or an advertisement in the newspapers. In its widest sense, advertising includes a host of activities such as 【B4】_ , shop displays and even the spoken word of the salesman. After all, the【B5】_ of advertising are to be found in the market place.Many people【B6】_ thought that it was enou
18、gh to produce goods and supply services. It is only more recently that they have increasingly realized that the production of goods is a waste of resources unless those goods can be sold at a【B7】_ price within a reasonable time 【B8】_ . In the competitive society, it is essential that we go out and s
19、ell what we have to offer. And advertising plays an important role in this respect, whether selling at home or in export markets.Approximately 2 percent of the UK gross national product is spent on advertising. But it must not be thought that this advertising tries to sell goods to consumers who do
20、not want them. Of course, advertising does try to attract the interest of the【B9】_ consumer, but if the article does not【B10】_ its advertising, it is obvious exceedingly unlikely that the article will sell well.27 【B1 】28 【B2 】29 【B3 】30 【B4 】31 【B5 】32 【B6 】33 【B7 】34 【B8 】35 【B9 】36 【B10 】Section
21、A36 Research on animal intelligence always makes us wonder just how smart humans are. Consider the fruit-fly experiments described by Carl Zimmer in the Science Times. Fruit flies who were taught to be smarter than the average fruit fly【C1】_to live shorter lives. This suggests that dimmer bulbs burn
22、 longer, that there is a(n) 【C2】 _in not being too bright.Intelligence, it turns out, is a high-priced【C3】_. It takes more upkeep, burns more fuel and is slow off the starting line because it depends on learninga(n) 【C4】 _processinstead of instinct. Plenty of other species are able to learn, and one
23、 of the things theyve apparently learned is when to stop.Is there an adaptive value to limited intelligence? Thats the question behind this new research. Instead of casting a wistful glance【C5】_at all the species weve left in the dust I.Q.-wise, it implicitly asks what the real costs of our own inte
24、lligence might be. This is on the【C6】_of every animal weve ever met.Research on animal intelligence also makes us wonder what experiments animals would【C7 】_on humans if they had the chance. Every cat with an owner, for instance, is running a small-scale study in operant conditioning. We believe tha
25、t if animals ran the labs, they would test us to【C8】_the limits of our patience, our faithfulness, our memory for locations. They would try to decide what intelligence in humans is really for, not【C9】_how much of it there is. Above all, they would hope to study a【C10 】_question: Are humans actually
26、aware of the world they live in? So far the results are inconclusive.A)mind B)fundamental C)gradual D)determineE)advantage F)happened G)spontaneous H)backwardI)aptly J)overcome K)option L)merelyM)tended N)inclination O)perform37 【C1 】38 【C2 】39 【C3 】40 【C4 】41 【C5 】42 【C6 】43 【C7 】44 【C8 】45 【C9 】46
27、 【C10 】Section B46 When Mom and Dad Grow OldAThe prospect of talking to increasingly fragile parents about their future can be “one of the most difficult challenges adult children will ever face,“ says Clarissa Green, a Vancouver therapist. “People often tell me they dont want to raise sensitive iss
28、ues with their parents about bringing in caregivers or moving,“ she says. “Theyll say, I dont want to see Dad cry.“ But Green usually responds, “Whats wrong with that?“ Adult children, she says, need to try to join their parents in grieving their decline, acknowledge their living arrangements may no
29、 longer work and, if necessary, help them say goodbye to their beloved home. “Its sad. And its supposed to be. Its about death itself.“BThere are almost four million men and women over age 65 in Canada. Nearly two thirds of them manage to patch together enough supportfrom family, friends, private an
30、d government services-to live independently until virtually the day they die, according to Statistics Canada.COf the Canadian seniors who live to 85 and over, almost one in three end up being movedsometimes kickingto group living for the last years of their lives. Even in the best-case scenarios(可能出
31、现的情况), such dislocations can bring sorrow. “Often the family feels guilty, and the senior feels a-bandoned,“ says Charmaine Spencer, a professor in the gerontology department of Simon Fraser University. Harassed with their own careers and children, adult children may push their parents too fast to m
32、ake a major transition.DVal MacDonald, executive director of the B.C. Seniors Services Society, cautions adult children against imposing their views on aging parents. “Many baby boomers can be quite patronizing(高人一等的),“ she says. Like many who work with seniors, MacDonald suggests adult children dev
33、ote many conversations over a long period of time to collaborating on their parents future, raising feelings, questions and optionsgently, but frankly. However, many middle-aged adults, according to the specialists, just muddle(应付)through with their aging parents.EWhen the parents of Nancy Woods of
34、Mulmur Hills, Ont., were in their mid-80s, they made the decision to downsize from their large family home . to an apartment in Toronto. As Woodss parents, George and Bernice, became more frail, she believed they knew she had their best interests at heart. They agreed to her suggestion to have Meals
35、 on Wheels start delivering lunches and dinners. However, years later, after a crisis, Woods discovered her parents had taken to throwing out the prepared meals. Her dad had appreciated them, but Bernice had come to believe they were poisoned. “My father was so loyal,“ says Woods, “he had hid that m
36、y mother was overwhelmed by paranoia(偏执狂).“ To her horror, Woods discovered her dad and mom were “living on crackers and oatmeal porridge“ and were weakening from the impoverished diet. Her dad was also falling apart with the stress of providing for Bernicea common problem when one spouse tries to d
37、o everything for an ailing partner. “The spouse whos being cared for might be doing well at home,“ says Spencer, “but often the other spouse is burned out and ends up being hospitalized.“FFortunately, outside help is often available to people struggling through the often-distressing process of helpi
38、ng their parents explore an important shift. Sons and daughters can bring in brochures or books on seniors issues, as well as introduce government health-care workers or staff at various agencies, to help raise issues and open up discussions, says Val MacDonald, whose nonprofit organization responds
39、 to thousands of calls a year from British Columbians desperate for information about how to weave through the dizzying array of seniors services and housing options. The long list of things to do, says MacDonald, includes assessing their ability to live independently; determining your comfort level
40、 with such things as bathing a parent; discussing with all household members whether it would be healthy for an elderly relative to move in; monitoring whether, out of pure duty, youre overcommitting yourself to providing a level of care that could threaten your own well-being.GThe shock phone call
41、that flung Nancy Woods and her parents into action came from her desperate dad. “I got this call from my father that he couldnt cope anymore. My mother was setting fires in the apartment,“ she says. “He didnt want to see it for what it was. Up to then hed been in denial.“HWithout knowing she was fol
42、lowing the advice of experts who recommend using outside sources to stimulate frank discussion with parents, Woods grabbed a copy of The 36-Hour Day: A Family Guide to Caring for Persons With Alzheimer Disease, Related Dementing Illnesses, and Memory Loss in Later Life. She read sections of the book
43、 to her dad and asked him, “Who does that sound like?“ Her father replied, “Its Mother. Its dementia(痴呆 ).“ At that point, Woods said, her dad finally recognized their tragic plight. She told her father she would help them move out of their apartment. “He nodded. He didnt yell or roar. He took it on
44、 the chin(忍受痛苦).“IWoods regrets that she “had not noticed small details signalling Moms dementia.“ But shes satisfied her dad accepted his passage into a group residence, where he and his wife could stay together in a secure unit where staff were trained to deal with patients with dementia. “From th
45、e moment they moved into the Toronto nursing home, their physical health improved. On the other hand, it was the beginning of the end in terms of their mental abilities. Perhaps they couldnt get enough stimulation. Perhaps it was inevitable.“JAfter my father died in 2002, the grim reality of my moth
46、ers sharply declining memory set in starkly. With her expanding dementia, Mom insisted on staying in her large North Shore house, even though she was confused about how to cook, organize her. day or take care of herself. For the next three years we effectively imposed decisions on her, most of them
47、involving bringing in caregivers, including family members. In 2005 Mom finally agreed, although she barely knew what was happening, to move to a nearby nursing home, where, despite great confusion, she is happier.KAs Spencer says, the sense of dislocation that comes with making an important passage
48、 can be “a very hard adjustment for a senior at the best of times. But its worse if its not planned out.“47 One who works with seniors reminds baby boomers not to intrude their opinions on aging parents.48 Adult children can make use of outside sources to help their parents make an important shift.4
49、9 Meals prepared for Nancy Woods parents were thrown away because they were believed to be poisoned.50 As it is difficult for a senior to make adjustment to an important change, it would be better to make plans in advance for them.51 According to Statistics Canada, most seniors over sixty-five try to get support from various sources to live independently until they die.52 After moving into the nu
