1、大学英语六级（2013 年 12 月考试改革适用）模拟试卷 133（无答案）一、Part I Writing1 For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay explaining Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words. Write your essay on Answer Sheet 1.Section A（A）It
2、 is being forced out of the entertainment industry.（B） It should change its concept of operation.（C） It should revolutionize its technology.（D）It is a very good place to relax.（A）Alice does not know much about electronics.（B） Alice is unlikely to find a job anywhere.（C） Alice is not interested in an
3、ything but electronics.（D）Alice is likely to find a job in an electronics company.（A）Its quite normal.（B） Its too high.（C） Its cheap indeed.（D）It could be cheaper.（A）She likes the job of feeding fish.（B） She finds her new job interesting.（C） She feels unfit for her new job.（D）Shes not in good health
4、.（A）Opinions about the book are varied.（B） The man thinks the book is excellent.（C） You shouldnt believe everything you read.（D）The woman wonders which newspaper the man is reading.（A）The train seldom arrives on time.（B） The schedule has been misprinted.（C） The speakers arrived at the station late.（
5、D）The company has trouble printing a schedule.（A）Hes unwilling to fetch the laundry.（B） He has already picked up the laundry.（C） He will go before the laundry is closed.（D）He thinks his mother should get the clothes back.（A）Wait and take the class next year.（B） Become a musician.（C） Give his present
6、ation without a plan.（D）Discuss the presentation with the professor.（A）More work as a teaching assistant.（B） A higher salary.（C） A longer vacation period.（D）A research assignment.（A）Hell start next week.（B） He wouldnt enjoy it.（C） He would like time to decide.（D）He wants his advisers opinion.（A）Fran
7、ks talent for teaching.（B） Franks interesting approach to research.（C） A present Frank will receive for graduation.（D）A congratulatory letter from the department（A）The colors of clothing.（B） The individual taste on clothing.（C） The idea of psychology of clothing.（D）The clothing fashion.（A）It is a su
8、bconscious thing.（B） It reflects a lack of self-consciousness.（C） It is unnecessary indeed.（D）It is a kind of conscious act.（A）He has a feeling of insecurity.（B） He is missing his family.（C） He lacks self-confidence.（D）He feels ill.（A）Warmer clothes.（B） More aggressive clothes.（C） Brighter colors of
9、 clothes.（D）More casual clothes.Section B（A）Hot during the day and cold at night.（B） Cold during the day and hot at night.（C） Hot day and night.（D）Cold day and night.（A）There are neither rivers nor streams.（B） There is no grass all the year round.（C） It is mainly bare rock with little grass.（D）There
10、 are a few streams and big rivers.（A）With the help of his friends.（B） By following the tracks of animals.（C） By using a compass.（D）With the help of the guide.（A）19 years old.（B） 16 years old.（C） 35 years old.（D）25 years old.（A）To teach the dog to perform tricks.（B） To enable the dog to regain its no
11、rmal behavior.（C） To make the dog aware of its owners authority.（D）To provide the dog with outlets for its wild behaviors.（A）To show their willingness to obey.（B） To show their affection for masters.（C） To avoid being punished.（D）To win leadership of the dog pack.（A）He will have more confidence in h
12、imself.（B） He will give more freedom to his dogs.（C） He will gain more respect from his dogs.（D）He will enjoy a better family life.（A）Rain usually comes without thunder and lightning.（B） It is usually dry in April.（C） Children pay no attention to natural phenomena.（D）Parents are not interested in th
13、under and lightning.（A）Because we were taught so by our parents from our childhood.（B） Because we are deceived by our sense of vision.（C） Because it is a common natural phenomenon.（D）Because it is a truth proved by science.（A）We should not believe what we see or hear.（B） Things moving downward are m
14、ore noticeable.（C） People often have wrong concepts about ordinary phenomenon.（D）Adults are not as good as children in observing certain natural phenomena.Section C26 When I was a child, my teeth used to【B1】_in several different directions, and【B2】_that involved rather expensive【B3 】_. And my horrib
15、le memory is of【 B4】_lots of wire bands, around my teeth for years and years. They really didnt do much good to my teeth because they seem to be【B5】_back into their original【B6】_now.When I was a child, my teeth were poor because in【B7】_. where I came from, we tend to eat a great deal of sugar. Also
16、we【B8】_eat a lot of fried food there, which of course is not very good for the gums, the two areas of firm pink flesh in which the teeth are fixed. So when I was about fourteen, I got false teeth, which is terrible for a young boy of fourteen.As a child, I never imagined that I would have problems w
17、ith my teeth, but I did. It wasnt something that I was【B9】_at the time, but as I developed I realized that I had two very prominent front teeth which【B10】_. And like some of us around the table, I had to have considerable work done to straighten these teeth out.27 【B1 】28 【B2 】29 【B3 】30 【B4 】31 【B5
18、 】32 【B6 】33 【B7 】34 【B8 】35 【B9 】36 【B10 】Section A36 The reason fruits and vegetables are so important to your overall health is that they are major purveyors of antioxidants.Antioxidant molecules are like the missile【C1】_system of your body, preventing damage from molecular bombs called free radi
19、cals. It works like this: in order to breathe, move, or eat, your bodys cells【C2】_food and oxygen into energy. This chemical reaction releases【C3】_byproducts, the free radicals we mentioned. Basically, theyre highly reactive【C4】_of oxygen that are missing an electron.【C5】_for that missing electron,
20、they steal them from normal cells, damaging the healthy cell and its DNA in the【C6】_This damage eventually【C7】_to any number of major health problems, including heart disease, memory loss, and cancer.Antioxidants, however,【C8】_with this process by giving free radicals one of their own electrons to s
21、tabilize them. Or they combine with free radicals to form different, more【C9 】_compounds. There are also antioxidant enzymes that help free radicals react with other chemicals to produce safe, instead of toxic, substances. Antioxidants, for instance, help prevent “bad“ LDL cholesterol from becoming【
22、C10】_and forming plaque( 斑). This is the reason the health establishment is so insistent on people eating more fresh produce: It provides around-the-clock defenses against free-radical damage to your arteries.A)change B)contributes C)convert D)defense E)DesirousF)Desperate G)forms H)harmful I)interf
23、ere J)offenseK)participates L)process M)stable N)stickier O)thinner37 【C1 】38 【C2 】39 【C3 】40 【C4 】41 【C5 】42 【C6 】43 【C7 】44 【C8 】45 【C9 】46 【C10 】Section B46 Television: the Cyclops that Eats BooksA)What is destroying America today is not the liberal breed of politicians, or the International Mone
24、tary Fund bankers, misguided educational elite, or the World Council of Churches. These are largely symptoms of a greater disorder. But if there is any single institution to blame, it is television. Television, in fact, has greater power over the lives of most Americans than any educational system o
25、r government or church. Children particularly are easily influenced. They are fascinated, hypnotized(着迷的)and tranquilized by TV. It is often the center of their world. Even when the set is turned off, they continue to tell stories about what theyve seen on it. No wonder, then, that when they grow up
26、 they are not prepared for the frontline of life; they simply have no mental defenses to confront the reality of the world.B)One of the most disturbing truths about TV is that it eats books. Once out of school, nearly 60% of all adult Americans have never read a single book, and most of the rest rea
27、d only one book a year. Alvin Kernan, author of The Death of Literature, says that reading books “is ceasing to be the primary way of knowing something in our society.“ He also points out that bachelors degrees in English literature have declined by 33% in the last twenty years. American libraries,
28、he adds, are in crisis, with few patrons to support them.C)Thousands of teachers at the elementary, secondary and college levels can testify that their students writing exhibits a tendency towards superficiality(肤浅)that wasnt seen, say, ten or fifteen years ago. It shows up not only in the students
29、lack of analytical skills but in their poor command of grammar and rhetoric. The mechanics of the English language have been tortured to pieces by TV. Visual, moving images cant be held in the net of careful language. They want to break out. They really have nothing to do with language. So language,
30、 grammar and rhetoric have become fractured.D)Recent surveys by dozens of organizations also suggest that up to 40% of the American public is functionally illiterate. The problem isnt just in our schools or in the way reading is taught. TV teaches people not to read. It makes them incapable of engag
31、ing in an art that is now perceived as strenuous(费力的)and active. Passive as it is, television has invaded our culture so completely that you see its effects in every quarter, even in the literary world. It shows up in supermarket paperbacks, from Stephen King to pulp fiction(低俗小说). These are really
32、forms of verbal TV-literature that is so superficial that those who read it can revel, in the same sensations they experience when they are watching TV.E)Even more importantly, the growing influence of television has changed peoples habits and values and affected their assumptions about the world. T
33、he sort of reflective, critical and value-laden thinking encouraged by books has been rendered out of date.F)In this context, we would do well to recall the Cyclops(独眼巨人) the race of one-eyed giants in Greek myth. The following is Hamiltons description of the encounter between the adventurer Odysseu
34、s and Polyphemus, a Cyclops.G)As Odysseus was on his way home, he and his crew found Polyphemus cave. They stayed in it as a shelter and waited for the owner to come back. At last he came, hideous and huge, tall as a great mountain crag. Driving his flock before him he entered and closed the caves m
35、outh with a ponderous slab of stone. Then looking around he caught sight of the strangers. He roared out and stretched out his mighty arms and in each great hand seized one of the men and dashed their brains out on the ground. Slowly he feasted off them to the last shred, and then, satisfied, stretc
36、hed himself out across the cavern and slept. He was safe from attack. None but he could roll back the huge stone before the door, and if the horrified men had been able to summon courage and strength enough to kill him they would have been imprisoned there forever.H)What I find particularly appropri
37、ate about this myth as it applies today is that first, the Cyclops imprisons these men in darkness, and that, second, he beats their brains out before he devours them. It doesnt take much imagination to apply this to the effects of TV on us and our children.I)Quite literally, TV affects the way peop
38、le think. In Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television(1978), Jerry Mander quotes from the Emery Report that when we watch television “our usual processes of thinking and discernment(识别能力)arc semi-functional at best.“ The study also argues that while television appears to have the potential t
39、o provide useful information to viewers, the technology of television and the inherent nature of the viewing experience actually inhibit learning as we usually think of it.J)When we watch TV we think we are looking at a picture, or an image of something, but what we are actually seeing is thousands
40、of dots of light blinking on and off in a strobe(屏闪)effect that is calculated to happen rapidly enough to keep us from recognizing the phenomenon. More than a decade ago, Mander and others pointed to instances of “TV epilepsy(癫痫症)“, in which those watching this strobe effect overextended their capac
41、ities, and the New England Journal of Medicine recently honored this affliction with a medical classification: video game epilepsy.K)Television also teaches that people arent quite real; they are images or little beings who move in a medium no thicker than a sliver of glass. Unfortunately, the tende
42、ncy is to start thinking of them in the way children think when they see too many cartoons, that people are merely objects that can be destroyed. Or that can fall over a cliff and be smashed to pieces and pick themselves up again. This violence of cartoons has no basis in reality. Actual people aren
43、t images but substantial, physical, corporeal beings with souls. And, of course, the violence on television leads to violence.L)TV cats books. It eats academic skills. It eats positive character traits. It even eats family relationships. How many families do you know that spend the dinner hour in fr
44、ont of the TV, seldom communicating with one another? How many have a television on while they have breakfast or prepare for work or school?M)And what about school? Ive heard college professors say of their students, “Well, you have to entertain them.“ One I know recommends using TV and film clips i
45、nstead of lecturing, “throwing in a commercial every ten minutes or so to keep them awake.“ A teacher should teach. But TV eats the principles of people who are supposed to be responsible, transforming them into passive servants of the Cyclops. N)TV eats our substance. What we see, hear, touch, smel
46、l, feel and understand about the world has been processed for us. TV teaches that all life-styles and all values are equal, and that there is no clearly defined right and wrong. Muggeridge concluded: “There is a danger in translating life into an image, and that is what television is doing. In doing
47、 it, It is falsifying(篡改 )life. Far from the cameras being an accurate recorder of what is going on, it is the exact opposite. It cannot convey reality, nor does it even want to.“47 Television makes reading books cease to be the primary way of getting information in our society.48 Television is dest
48、roying the English language.49 In translating life into an image, television is misrepresenting life.50 Television doesnt help build up mental defenses for people to face life.51 Nowadays many writers are prone to be effected by the TV when they are writing a novel.52 Television is compared to the C
49、yclops because it deprives us of our thinking ability before destroying us.53 Television has a negative effect on peoples character and family relationships.54 Television perhaps will make people start to think of actual persons as images and little beings in the way children think.55 Television also has a great effect on peoples view about the world and changes their attitude towards life.56 When we watch TV, our usual process of thinking and jud
