1、大学英语六级（2013 年 12 月考试改革适用）模拟试卷 138（无答案）一、Part I Writing1 For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay based on the picture below. You should start your essay with a brief description of the picture and then discuss the relationship between Internet and study. You should give sound argu
2、ments to support your views and write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.Section A（A）Attended the orientation.（B） Had a meeting with his cousin.（C） Went to a class for juniors.（D）Walked around the campus.（A）Go to see the dentist.（B） Make an appointment.（C） Contact the professor.（D）Try to
3、attend the class.（A）She knows the mans sister.（B） She enjoys shopping with the man.（C） She has a sweater of the same color with the mans sister.（D）She has clothes of similar style to the mans.（A）It is the busiest season for banks.（B） She has had a similar experience before.（C） The man should apply f
4、or a debit card.（D）ATM is the most convenient banking service.（A）She got the leading character she wanted.（B） Shes going to play a role in the movie.（C） She figures out the movie doesnt suit her.（D）She will work together with her mother.（A）She has problems with her roommate.（B） She is bad-tempered s
5、ometimes.（C） She is not easy to get along with.（D）She has some annoying habits.（A）The right weather for a trip.（B） The delicious cherry in the orchard.（C） The womans trip to the Fall.（D）The good bargain the woman had.（A）The campus still seems strange to him.（B） The high school students are annoying.
6、（C） He missed his engineering class.（D）He has conflicting time arrangements.（A）Because her grandfather is ill.（B） Because her uncle will visit her.（C） Because she has too much pressure at work.（D）Because the auditors found some of her mistakes.（A）She must wait till the auditors leave.（B） She must ch
7、oose a new director.（C） She must keep in touch with his colleagues.（D）She must report his whereabouts from time to time.（A）Driving her to Boston.（B） Booking a flight ticket for her.（C） Asking a friend to accompany her.（D）Introducing her a prestigious doctor.（A）Because they share the same apartment.（
8、B） Because she likes the one he has bought.（C） Because he has some knowledge on furniture.（D）Because he is well-known for his wisdom.（A）The considerable amount of money spent on it.（B） The majority of time spent on and around it.（C） The unavoidable area it takes in a room.（D）The significant impact i
9、t has on the atmosphere.（A）The location.（B） The function.（C） The size.（D）The cost.（A）It should be eye-catching.（B） It should match that of the room.（C） It should fit the womans taste.（D）It should be as common as possible.Section B（A）Be seated in a comfortable chair.（B） Use computers wisely.（C） Obey
10、the rules in school.（D）Study with a joyful feeling.（A）Daily activities and knowledge are learned in different ways.（B） Physical experiences are helpful for people to learn.（C） People are used to learning new things little by little.（D）Constant learning has a good effect on humans brain.（A）It gives p
11、eople a new perspective.（B） It helps people to feel energetic again.（C） It makes your friends notice your problem.（D）It gives you more time to finish the task.（A）To promote the online sales.（B） To present the outcome of a research.（C） To honor prestigious shoppers.（D）To mark a special event.（A）Pleas
12、ant.（B） Over-excited.（C） Annoyed.（D）Sad.（A）Economic news on radio.（B） Music at a concert.（C） Introduction to a product.（D）Advertisements on TV.（A）It causes people to feel unhappy.（B） It makes people think of their plants.（C） It draws peoples attention to the quality.（D）It helps people to decide the
13、products value.（A）To the area where the goalkeeper cant reach.（B） To the direction out of the goalkeepers expectation.（C） With great strength so that the goalkeeper cant stop the ball.（D）With some fake movements to mislead the goalkeeper.（A）Their psychological condition.（B） Their fame and reputation
14、.（C） Their willingness of participation.（D）Their strength and technique.（A）He can influence the players thought.（B） The referee will let him stand out a little bit.（C） He can get a good feeling of the ball.（D）The kickers wont be able to focus on the kick.Section C26 Daniel Devlin lives in the same h
15、ouse with his children and sees them every dayyet he is unable to recognize them at all. Mr. Devlin, 46, from Nunhead, London, is living with a bizarre condition called prosopagnosia, also known as face-blindness, meaning he【B1】_to recognize faceseven those of his own family. Mr. Devlin, a painter,
16、has been forced to【B2 】_his familys voices and body language in order to know who they are. But reading【B3】_and body language doesnt always work, and has even mistaken another boy for his son when picking his children up from school before. Mr. Devlin said, “ Humans have a special ability to recogni
17、ze people by seeing their faces, I really dont have this ability. Maybe a good way to【B4 】_what its like is to try and recognize people by what their hands look like. Every person has a【B5】_hand but if someone showed you a photo of someones hands, you might struggle to recognize who the person is. “
18、Experts said the disease is thought to be the result of【B6】_of the brain. This could【B7】_a stroke, brain injury, or some diseases. Or, in cases such as Mr. Devlinsthe condition is present【B8】_, and the pathways in the brain responsible for recognition never developed properly. It is thought the cond
19、ition affects up to one in 50 people, the【B9】_of about 1.5 million people in the U. K. Some people with the disease may only struggle to recognize a familiar face, but in more severe cases sufferers cannot distinguish a face as【B10】_an object. Some sufferers are unable to recognize their own faces.2
20、7 【B1 】28 【B2 】29 【B3 】30 【B4 】31 【B5 】32 【B6 】33 【B7 】34 【B8 】35 【B9 】36 【B10 】Section A36 For authors of self-help guides, no human problem is too great or too small. Want to become fitter, richer or happier in 2015? There are books for it【C1】_upon shelves of them. Hoping for increased efficiency,
21、 decisiveness and creativity in the months ahead? There are titles for that, too.As we settle down to our New Years【C2】_, well turn in droves to self-help books, hoping to find our own best selves in their pages. But a book neednt lecture to leave its imprint. The truth is that all good literature c
22、hanges us, and a growing body of research suggests you might do better browsing through fiction for support in【C3 】_lifes challenges. Think of it less as self-help than “shelf help“.Reading has been proven to sharpen【C4】_thinking, enabling us to better discern patternsa handy tool when it comes to t
23、he often baffling behaviour of ourselves and others. But fiction in particular can make you more socially able. Last year, the Journal of Applied Social Psychology published a paper showing how reading Harry Potter made young people in the U. K. and Italy more【C5】_disposed towards stigmatised (使蒙上污名
24、的) minorities such as【C6】_. And in 2013, psychologists at the New School for Social Research found that literary fiction enhanced peoples ability to【C7】_and read others emotions.We think of novels as places in which to lose ourselves, but when we【C8】_, we take with us inspiration from our favourite
25、characters. A 2012 study by researchers at Ohio State University found that this process could actually change a readers behaviour. In one experiment, participants strongly identifying with a【C9】_character who overcame obstacles to vote proved significantly more likely to vote in a real election.The
26、y may not promise transformation in seven easy steps, but gripping novels can inform and motivate, short stories can console and trigger self-reflection, and poetry has been shown to engage parts of the brain linked to memory. Sometimes an author helps by simply taking your mind off a problem,【C10】_
27、you so fully in anothers world and outlook that you transcend yourself, returning recharged and determined.A) positively I) acceptingB) books J) refugeesC) battling K) analyticalD) fictional L) emergeE) register M) concretelyF) immersing N) shelvesG) critical O) express H) resolutions37 【C1 】38 【C2
28、】39 【C3 】40 【C4 】41 【C5 】42 【C6 】43 【C7 】44 【C8 】45 【C9 】46 【C10 】Section B46 After-school Programs That Make a DifferenceAA good high school goes a long way, but what kids learn outside the classroom can be just as powerful. At many schools, years of budget cuts have chipped away at sports, music,
29、arts and other activities considered nonessential. For the lucky ones, after-school programs have stepped in to fill that gap, offering everything from coding classes to canoeing. “The whole point of education is to prepare our kids for the workforce,“ says Jodi Grant of nonprofit Afterschool Allian
30、ce which advocates for more after-school programs. “They need academic skills, but they also need social skills, emotional skills, professional skills, confidence and collaborationthese are all things that kids can get in after-school programs. “BStudies show money spent inspiring kids is a good inv
31、estmentnot just for the kids but for the community. The Rose Institute at Claremont McKenna College estimates that every dollar invested in high-quality after-school care saves taxpayers approximately $3and thats without even accounting for reductions in crime and the resulting costs of jailing offe
32、nders.CAccording to a report commissioned by Afterschool Alliance in 2009, around 8.5 million K-12 students participate in after-school programs for an average of 8.1 hours a week. It found there are more than 14 million children left alone and unsupervised in the hours after school, typically from
33、3 p. m. to 6 p. m, prime time for kids to engage in risky activities such as juvenile (青少年的) crime, drug use, alcohol and sex. It says kids who dont attend after-school programs are nearly three times more likely to cut school: three times more likely to use drugs: and more likely to drink alcohol,
34、smoke cigarettes and engage in sexual activity. “When these kids are not in school, when theyre not at home, theyre going to be learning something,“ says Grant. “ You can either make it a really positive experience, a no-gain experience, or a negative experience. “ Here are some highly-rated after-s
35、chool programs that offer something fun and educational for kidsat little to no cost to the parents.DMusician Derrick Tabb is the founder of The Roots of Music in New Orleans. “ This program was needed so much after Katrina,“ Tabb says. “We were playing a lot of funerals, and we saw a lot of kids go
36、ing by the wayside, doing wrong, going to jail. The after-school time is the best time to capture a kid because hell be out in the streets just doing nothing, and youre actually turning that time into quality time. “EThe Roots of Music now serves around 125 kids of varying skill levels, all of whom
37、participate in a marching band in the citys annual Mardi Gras parade.FTabb credits his school band director with saving his life. “I was a rebellious kid,“ Tabb willingly admits. “I was getting into all sorts of problems, and his program could change your whole way of thinking about life. “ The Root
38、s of Music, which caters to youth between the ages of 9 and 14 from low-income households, was built on the foundation of Tabbs band directors program, but with three additional elements: free round-trip transportation: free hot meals five days a week: and academic tutoring with mentors from Tulane
39、University.GGirls Write Now, which was established in 1998, aims to inspire underserved and at-risk girls in New York Citys public school system through a one-on-one mentoring program with professional female writers and a series of workshops covering different genres of writing. The program serves
40、100 girls and 100 mentors, with wait lists on both sidestriple the organizations capacity. 100 percent of the seniors go on to college.HNishat Anjum, 18, was born in Chittagong, Bangladesh, and moved to Staten Island with her family when she was 5 years old. She was matched with Julie Salamon, a pub
41、lished author and journalist. Meeting in person proved to be difficult: Salamon is based in Manhattan, and the hour commute between the two of them was far from ideal. So they decided to speak over Skype. Despite the initial awkwardness, Anjum and Salamon quickly bonded over a shared interest in mem
42、oirs. “Julie told me about her whole writing process, and I took notes and applied that to my writing process,“ Anjum says. “I didnt even have a writing process. “IWorking with Salamon gave Anjum the confidence to start a memoir based on her experiences as a disaster relief volunteer worker in the a
43、ftermath of Superstorm Sandy. Two years after her first mentoring session, Anjum is headed to Brooklyn College to study psychology and writing, armed with Scholastic Art & Writing Awards won during her time at Girls Write Now.JMission Bit is a relatively new nonprofit program offering free coding cl
44、asses for middle and high school students in San Francisco, with priority given to girls and ethnic minorities. It fosters the development of professional skillswith the added bonus of providing industry access. Nearly three in four of San Franciscos public high school students dont have access to c
45、omputer programming classes, so Mission Bit partners with the school district to offer elective credit for courses.K“I didnt know programming could be a career for me until my senior year,“ says Dulce Palacios, 18, now a student at Sonoma State. As a Lowell High School senior, she interned (做实习生) at
46、 Hack Reactor through Mission Bit. “ I was always curious about computers but I never actually thought I could do it until I took the risk and took computer programming as an elective. I had never programmed anything in my life beforeit was great. “LThe Urbano Project, which serves public school stu
47、dents in the Boston area, aims to empower student artists to create social change within their communities. Created by Stella A. McGregor in 2009, the Urbano Project offers a variety of intensive art classes and workshops for urban teens taught by professional teaching artists. Housed in Jamaica Pla
48、ins historic Brewery complex, Urbano offers studio and exhibition space to give rapidly growing artists the opportunity to show their art to the public. Around 80 percent of teenage participants are first-generation immigrants, often from low- or middle-income families.M“As teams, we would sit down
49、and brainstorm different issues in our community, or issues we have gone through, that wed like to express in art,“ says Yoselin Rodriguez, 21, an Urbano intern wrapping up a Fine Arts/Arts Education dual degree program at the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University. “We would have those conversations about what we could do that was meaningful, about what we would change in our community. “N
