1、大学英语六级（2013 年 12 月考试改革适用）模拟试卷 49（无答案）一、Part I Writing1 For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay commenting on the remark “You have to believe in yourself. Thats the secret of success. “ You can cite examples to illustrate your point. You should write at least 150 words but no more
2、 than 200 words.Section A（A）The weather is mild compared to the past years.（B） They are having the coldest winter ever.（C） The weather will soon get warmer.（D）The weather may get even colder.（A）He might attend the wedding.（B） He may postpone handing in his paper.（C） He may not prepare for his exam a
3、nd essay.（D）He is too busy with his study to attend the wedding.（A）The man didnt want the woman to have her hair cut.（B） The woman followed the mans advice.（C） The woman is wearing long hair now.（D）The man didnt care if the woman had her hair cut or not.（A）She doesnt enjoy going to the beach.（B） The
4、 beach was too crowded to go.（C） There wasnt enough food for every one at the barbecue.（D）The barbecue was canceled because of the weather.（A）Three lessons.（B） Five lessons.（C） Twelve lessons.（D）Fifteen lessons.（A）He decided not to sell the piano.（B） No one has bought the piano yet.（C） Hes looking f
5、or a place to store the piano.（D）He hasnt been able to find an inexpensive piano yet.（A）She has red hair.（B） She has black hair.（C） Her photo is in the newspaper.（D）She looks like the missing girl.（A）The stories probably werent true.（B） Tom doesnt usually tell funny stories.（C） Shes surprised Tom wa
6、s so serious last night.（D）She wants to know where Tom heard the stories.（A）The celebration day of American Labour Day is later than that of Chinese Labour Day.（B） There are more workers celebrating Labour Day in America than in China.（C） American Labour Day is much more formal than Chinese Labour D
7、ay.（D）The influence of American Labour Day is not as great as that of Chinese Labour Day.（A）It is welcomed by all the American workers.（B） It is accompanied by satisfaction and suffering.（C） It is beneficial to workers.（D）It disappeared immediately since the establishment of Labour Day.（A）Have a par
8、ade.（B） Have a family get-together.（C） Have a party with workers.（D）Have a picnic or a barbecue.（A）Survival and poor harvest.（B） Death and Hope.（C） Death and harvest.（D）Evil and Hope.（A）When the young demonstrate about what the generation gap is.（B） When the young discuss universal love and understa
9、nding between people.（C） When the young talk about pollution and the population explosion.（D）When the young complain about the misunderstandings from the old（A）Because older people cant understand the problem the young face.（B） Because older people dont want to understand the young.（C） Because older
10、 people think they are right at any time.（D）Because the young want to be different from older people.（A）Unafraid.（B） Satisfied.（C） Frightened.（D）Depressed.Section B（A）Satisfying.（B） Tough.（C） Meaningless.（D）Boring.（A）Kathy persuaded her to do so.（B） Zoe lost her job as a PR consultant.（C） Zoe got ti
11、red of the city life.（D）Zoe loved Wales more than London.（A）Tiresome and troublesome.（B） Romantic and peaceful.（C） Mentally exhausting but healthy.（D）Physically tiring but rewarding.（A）A friend in need is a friend indeed.（B） Kill two birds with one stone.（C） A misfortune may turn out a blessing.（D）W
12、here there is a will, there is a way.（A）They didnt care.（B） They hated it.（C） They loved it.（D）They have mixed feelings.（A）There was not enough maintenance.（B） People didnt care whatever mess it might be.（C） There were no effective regulations over visitors.（D）It was constructed badly.（A）It was more
13、 respected.（B） More people used it.（C） It was damaged by tourists again.（D）It quickly got worse again after Lincolns death.（A）Those who often take exercise.（B） Those who often walk to school.（C） Those who often watch television.（D）Those who often have meals at home.（A）They cant choose what to eat.（B
14、） They are too busy to go out and play.（C） Their parents often cook meals for them.（D）There are too many fast food shops.（A）To tell a story.（B） To give advice.（C） To provide facts.（D）To compare opinions.Section C26 The biggest safety threat facing airlines today may not be a terrorist with a gun, bu
15、t the man with a portable computer in business class. In the last 15 years, pilots have reported well over 100【B1】_that could have been caused by electromagnetic interference. The source of this interference remains【 B2】_, but increasingly, experts are pointing the blame at portable electronic【B3】_,
16、 such as portable computers, radio and cassette players and mobile telephones. RTCA, an organisation which advises the aviation industry, has recommended that all airlines ban such devices from being used during “【 B4】_“ stages of flight, particularly take-off and landing. Some experts have gone fur
17、ther, calling for a total ban during all flights. Currently, rules on using these devices are left up to【B5】_airlines. And although some airlines prohibit passengers from using such equipment during take-off and landing, most【 B6】_enforce a total ban, given that many passengers want to work during f
18、lights.The difficulty is predicting how electromagnetic fields might affect an aircrafts computers. Experts know that【B7】_devices emit radiation which affects those wavelengths which aircraft use for navigation and communication. But because they havent been able to reproduce these effects in a labo
19、ratory, they【B8】_knowing whether the interference might be dangerous or not.The fact that aircraft may【B9】_interference raises the risk that terrorists may use radio systems in order to damage【B10】_equipment. As worrying, though, is the passenger who cant hear the instructions to turn off his radio
20、because the musics too loud.27 【B1 】28 【B2 】29 【B3 】30 【B4 】31 【B5 】32 【B6 】33 【B7 】34 【B8 】35 【B9 】36 【B10 】Section A36 Pet birds can not only imitate sounds, they can distinguish between languages, potentially offering new【C1】_on how the brain recognises speech, Japanese researchers say. It has al
21、ready been【C2】_that monkeys, mice and other mammals can recognise different languages but this is the first time that birds have been found to【C3】_the ability, The Mainichi Daily News reported.A research team【C4】_Java Sparrows to English and Chinese translations recorded by exchange students of two
22、well-known Japanese novels, The Tale of Genji and Natsume Sosekis I Am a Cat. A bird sitting on a perch first listened to the English【C5 】_and was only allowed to eat afterwards. Then the researchers played English and Chinese recordings at random and only allowed the bird to eat after hopping onto
23、the perch with the English. The birds correctly identified the English recording 75 percent of the time. The same results were achieved with another two birds that were【C6】_to eat only when Chinese was played. “Humans are able to distinguish between languages, even ones they dont know, from the into
24、nation and pronunciation, and it seems that paddy birds have the【C7】_ability,“ said Keio University experimental psychology professor Shigeru Watanabe, who led the research.Watanabe said paddy birds like the Java Sparrow and parakeets, which are【 C8】_vocally, learn sounds unique to their species aft
25、er becoming adults, suggesting that they have a【C9】_ability to distinguish between sounds. The researchers did not use Japanese because it was the language the birds【C10 】_listened to, the newspaper said.A)possess I)confirmedB)normally J)skilledC)same K)versionD)suggestions L)lowE)clues M)rarelyF)hi
26、gh N)permittedG)process O)different H)exposed37 【C1 】38 【C2 】39 【C3 】40 【C4 】41 【C5 】42 【C6 】43 【C7 】44 【C8 】45 【C9 】46 【C10 】Section B46 Bring Our Schools out of the 20th CenturyATheres a dark little joke exchanged by educators with an opposing trace: Rip Van Winkle awakens in the 21st century afte
27、r a hundred-year sleep and is, of course, utterly bewilderedby what he sees. Men and women dash about, talking to small metal devices attached to their ears. Young people sit at home on sofas, moving miniature Athletes around on electronic screens. Older folk defy death and disability with devices i
28、n their chests and with hips made of metal and plastic. Airports, hospitals, shopping walls every place Rip goes just baffles him. But when he finally walks into a schoolroom, the old man knows exactly where he is. “This is a school,“ he declares. “We used to have these back in 1906. Only now the bl
29、ackboards are green.“BAmerican schools arent exactly frozen in time, but considering the pace of change in other areas of life, our public schools tend to feel like throwbacks. Kids spend much of the day as their grandparents once did: sitting in rows, listening to teachers lecture, scribbling notes
30、 by hand, and reading from textbooks that are out of date by the time they are printed. A yawning gap separates the world inside the schoolhouse from the world outside.CFor the past five years, the national conversation on education has focused on reading scores, maths tests and closing the “achieve
31、ment gap“ between social classes. This is not a story about that conversation. This is a story about the big public conversation the nation is not having about education, the one that will ultimately determine not merely whether some fraction of our children get “left behind“ but also whether an ent
32、ire generation of kids will fail to make the grade in the global economy because they cant think their way through abstract problems, work in teams, distinguish good information from bad or speak a language other than English.DRight now were aiming too low. Competency in reading and maths is just th
33、e minimum.Scientific and technical skills are, likewise, utterly necessary but insufficient. Todays economy demands not only a high-level competence in the traditional academic disciplines but also what might be called 21st century skills.EHeres what they are: knowing more about the world: thinking
34、outside the box: becoming smarter about new sources of information: developing good people skills: real knowledge in the Google Era.FLearn the names of all the rivers in South America. That was the assignment given to Deborah Stipeks daughter Meredith in school, and her mum, whos dean of the Stanfor
35、d University School of Education, was not impressed. “Thats silly,“ Stipek told her daughter. “Tell your teacher that if you need to know anything besides the Amazon, you can look it up on Google.“ Any number of old-school assignment memorising the battles of the Civil War or the periodic table of t
36、he elements now seem faintly absurd. That kind of information, which is poorly retained unless you routinely use it, is available at a keystroke.GStill, few would argue that an American child shouldnt learn the causes of the Civil War or understand how the periodic table reflects the atomic structur
37、e and properties of the elements. As school critic E.D. Hirsch Jr. points out in his book, The Knowledge Deficit, kids need a substantial fund of information just to make sense of reading materials beyond the grade-school level. Without mastering the fundamental building blocks of maths, science or
38、history, complex concepts are impossible.HMany analysts believe that to achieve the right balance between such core knowledge and what educators call “portable skills“ critical thinking, making connections between ideas and knowing how to keep on learning the US curriculum needs to become more like
39、that of Singapore, Belgium and Sweden, whose students outperform American students on maths and science tests. Classes in these countries dwell on key concepts that are taught in depth and in careful sequence, as opposed to a succession of forgettable details so often served in US classrooms. Textbo
40、oks and tests support this approach. “Countries from Germany to Singapore have extremely small textbooks that focus on the most powerful and generative ideas,“ says Roy Pea, co-director of the Stanford Centre for Innovations in Learning. These might be the key rules in maths, the laws in science or
41、the relationship between supply and demand in economics. Americas thick textbooks, by contrast, tend to go through a mind-numbing stream of topics and subtopics in an attempt to address a vast range of educational standards.IDepth over breadth and the ability to leap across disciplines are exactly w
42、hat teachers aim for at the Henry Ford Academy, a public charter school in Dearborn, Michigan. Last fall, 10th-graders in Charles Dershimers science class began a project that combines concepts from earth science, chemistry, business and design. After reading about Nikes effort to develop a more env
43、ironmentally friendly sneakers, students had to choose a consumer product, analyse and explain its environmental impact and then develop a plan for reengineering it to reduce pollution costs without sacrificing its commercial appeal. Says Dershimers: “Its a challenge for them and for me.“JThe junior
44、s in Bill Strouds class are attracted by a documentary called Loose Change playing on a small TV screen at the Baccalaureate School for Global Education, in urban Astoria, NY. The film uses 9/11 films and interviews with building engineers and Twin Towers survivors to make an oddly compelling case t
45、hat interior explosions unrelated to the impact of the airplanes brought down the World Trade Centre on that fateful day. Afterward, the student an ethnic mix of New Yorkers with their own 9/11 memories dive into a discussion about the nature of truth.KThroughout the year, the class will examine new
46、s reports, websites, history books, blogs, and even pop songs. The goal is to teach kids to be sharp consumers of information and to research, formulate and defend their own views, says Stroud, who is the founder and principal of the four-year-old public school. Classes like these, which teach key a
47、spects of information literacy, remain rare in public education, but more and more universities and employers say they are needed as the world grows ever more flooded with information of variable quality. Last year, in response to demand from colleges, the Educational Testing Service unveiled a new,
48、 computer-based exam designed to measure information-and-communication-technology literacy.LA study of the test with 6,200 high school seniors and college freshmen found that only half could correctly judge the objectivity of a website. “Kids tend to go to Google and cut and paste a research report
49、together,“ says Terry Egan, who led the team that developed the new test. “We kind of assumed this generation was so comfortable with technology that they know how to use it for research and deeper thinking,“ says Egan. “But if theyre not taught these skills, they dont necessarily pick them up.“MTeachers need not fear that they will be made outdated. They will, however, feel increasing pressure to bring
