1、大学六级模拟 933 及答案解析(总分：710.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、Part Writing(总题数：1，分数：106.50)1.Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay explaining why it is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final. You can give examples to illustrate your point. You should write a
2、t least 150 words but no more than 200 words. （分数：106.50）_二、Part Listening Com(总题数：0，分数：0.00)三、Section A(总题数：4，分数：106.50)（分数：35.50）A.Pay in advance.B.Place an order.C.Come back after a week.D.Choose another pattern.A.She is at a project site.B.She is preparing a report.C.She is with guests.D.She is
3、away on business.A.It is reliable.B.It is quicker.C.It costs less but rather fast.D.It guarantees safe delivery.A.Send out the invitations.B.Arrange for accommodations.C.Welcome guests to a show.D.Make preparations for an event.A.To be on business.B.To have a holiday.C.To visit his friends.D.To atte
4、nd a conference.（分数：21.30）A.A new store.B.A meeting.C.A client.D.A restaurant.A.Wait him for 50 minutes.B.Have an interview for Emma.C.Take Emma to Human Resources.D.Process the files timely.A.At a restaurant.B.At a convention center.C.At an office.D.At a hotel.Questions 9 to 11 are based on the con
5、versation you have just heard. （分数：21.30）A.She has to stay in bed with her injured ankle.B.She must finish her term paper by the deadline.C.She has to take care of three tutorial classes.D.She needs to make preparations for an exam.A.Get high marks for all the courses in this term.B.Make her being a
6、 tutorial leader serious.C.Accumulate much teaching experience.D.Learn how to get along well with students.A.To help her with her paper.B.To give her a high mark.C.To accept her into a program.D.To write her a reference letter.Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard. （分数
7、：28.40）A.She could not organize the whole plot.B.She just got stuck in her writing.C.Her health severely affected her writing.D.Her writing departed from the main theme.A.To write anything that comes into her head.B.To do some outdoor exercises when she“s tired.C.To forget what she has written tempo
8、rarily.D.To learn writing skills from famous writers.A.He went outside to observe the nature.B.He met his friends and chatted with them.C.He did some work for his other courses.D.He read famous books to get inspiration.A.To buy some jewelry for her mum.B.To solve a jewelry store robbery.C.To fix the
9、 security cameras in the store.D.To observe the scene for her story.四、Section B(总题数：0，分数：0.00)五、Passage One(总题数：1，分数：21.30)Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard. （分数：21.30）A.How stores try to increase their sales.B.How people make decisions in stores.C.How customers protect
10、 their interests.D.How stores adjust to the market change.A.It lists the price for four items instead of one.B.It helps customers save a lot of money.C.It is found to increase sales by almost a third.D.It helps to resist the temptation to buy more.A.Write a grocery list at home.B.Buy daily necessiti
11、es online.C.Buy the goods at a discount.D.Pay by credit card at stores.六、Passage Two(总题数：1，分数：21.30)Questions 19 to 21 are based on the passage you have just heard. （分数：21.30）A.How inherited characteristics determine one“s marriage and career.B.The significance of inherited characteristics for an in
12、dividual“s life.C.The importance of the environment to an individual“s personality.D.How social culture influences an individual“s characteristics.A.They are usually predictable and powerful.B.These in childhood shape one“s whole life.C.They can boost other influences in one“s life.D.No research has
13、 confirmed their influences.A.One“s experiences before three years old.B.Home environment and parents“ guidance.C.School education and social culture.D.The interaction of nature and nurture.七、Passage Three(总题数：1，分数：28.40)Questions 22 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard. （分数：28.40）A.Li
14、stening to classical music.B.Being a religious worker.C.Being a basketball player.D.Joining debate competitions.A.His professor helped him a lot in his study.B.He completed a course in law there.C.He had to work as a waiter to earn his tuition.D.He studied economics and sociology there.A.He joined t
15、he Republic-Farmer-Labor Party.B.He won a seat in the United States Senate.C.He was elected to the House of Representatives.D.He finished his five terms in the United States Senate.A.He served in the Senate for a total of 12 years.B.He won his first-term election in the Senate in 1964.C.He served in
16、 the Senate for only two years.D.He failed re-election to a second term in the Senate.八、Section C(总题数：1，分数：71.00)There are two different schools of thought towards global warming. One of the groups is 1 scientists who believe that humans are responsible for the increasing temperatures throughout the
17、 world and that if we don“t do something to 2 the trend, we“ll be 3 in the near future. An important leader in this group is the former Vice President A1 Gore of the United States. He was presented with an Oscar from the Academy of Motion Pictures for his 4 An Inconvenient Truth in which he showed 5
18、 what he believed was the trend that will cause the ice caps to melt and what he thinks is causing it. An 6 group of people say that this is not true. They say there are many factual errors in Mr. Gore“s film and feel he“s simply trying to create 7 about something that is totally natural. Geologists
19、 have 8 that changing temperature cycles have occurred many times during the history of the world. An example is the Ice Age, which covered a large part of the northern hemisphere with a heavy coating of ice that later disappeared. This group agrees that there is a 9 warming of the earth but that th
20、e gases causing this are being produced by nature, such as when a volcano 10 gas and ash into the atmosphere. （分数：71.00）九、Part Reading Compr(总题数：0，分数：0.00)十、Section A(总题数：1，分数：35.50)Researchers say infants who are exposed to things like rat and pet dander (屑), roach (蟑螂) allergens (过敏原) and househol
21、d bacteria during their first year are actually less likely to suffer from allergies. A new study published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology shows that being exposed to allergens before a child turns one can 1 allergies. To reach these findings, the researchers studied 467 inner-cit
22、y infants in Boston and New York. They tracked their health over three years, and visited their homes to calculate the levels of a 2 of allergens. They also conducted allergy tests on the children and collected bacteria from dust 3 in their homes. The kids who lived homes with mouse and cat dander a
23、s well as cockroach droppings during their first year had lower rates of wheezing (喘息) by age 3. It“s possible you“ve heard of the “hygiene hypothesis“, which is the 4 that the reason Americans have so many allergies is because we are, quite simply, too clean. Kids are kept in such completely clean
24、environments that they never 5 immunities to common allergens. A significant amount of research has shown that kids who grow up living on farms with livestock, or with a pet are less likely to 6 allergies: Prior research has also suggested that it“s not 7 dust that provides protection, but the micro
25、bes (微生物) that are in our body that influence our immune system and ability to fight off 8 . The new findings support a growing body of 9 that a little exposure to germs here and there never hurt no one, and in fact, could actually be protective. Letting a child put their shoe in their mouth is 10 ,
26、 but possibly not the worst accident they could make. A. benefit I. gross B. build J. infections C. develop K. lawfully D. domination L. marvelous E. endangered M. necessarily F. evidence N. speculation G. gathered O. variety H. granted（分数：35.50）十一、Section B(总题数：1，分数：71.00)Getting over Our Preferenc
27、e for Perfect ProduceA. Lift, squeeze, sniff. It“s a ritual millions of us perform every day in the produce aisle of the grocery store, rejecting the defective and irregular in search of an ideal seldom found on any farm. B. 40 percent of all food is never eaten, and this rejection of “ugly food“the
28、 misshapen or imperfect produce that gets thrown out before it ever hits the supermarket displayis a major contributor to food waste. Most of that waste happens on the consumer side: food rejected by shoppers or by the markets before it reaches their aisles, or rejected in restaurants before it reac
29、hes our tables. Doug Rauch, the former president of Trader Joe“s, thinks he has the answer. This summer he is opening a store in Boston, called Daily Table, that will make outdated and defective food friendly and attractive. His “mixture of a grocery store and a restaurant“with both fresh produce an
30、d prepared, “speed-scratch“ dishes with prechopped vegetables, cooked proteins and rice that“s ready to eat, requiring just sauce and seasoningis a pilot project attempting to recast the social norms of what“s fresh, desirable and edible. C. The project grew out of a fellowship Rauch started at Harv
31、ard in 2010, following the end of his position at Trader Joe“s. One in six Americans, he discovered, is not eating enough nutrients. “They can“t afford to get the food they need,“ he explains, adding that what they eat is “calorically dense, but nutritionally stripped“. The health care tsunami that
32、followsearly-onset diabetes (糖尿病) and heart disease, even in children and teens; additional health care costs of half a trillion dollars over the next two decades due to rising obesity makes it everyone“s problem. Malnutrition, paired with the problem of food waste that he saw firsthand at Trader Jo
33、e“s, got him thinking. D. At a recent conference in Washington, D.C., put on by the Partnership for a Healthier America, Rauch shared a panel called “Feed Families Not Landfills“ with Tim York of Markon, a company that distributes billions of dollars worth of produce across the U.S. “He showed a pho
34、to of a field of romaine lettuce (长叶生菜)10 acres of it, beautiful,“ Rauch remembers. “The photo was the field after the harvest. They“d harvested all the lettuce that was the right size for bagged lettuce, but there was a ton out there that was two inches too tall or too short, and that gets plowed u
35、nder. All of the things that are not the right size, color, shapea lot goes rotten, gets plowed under or goes to fertilizer.“ E. Rauch wondered if he could open an attractive retail store, partner with grocers and producers to source the surplus food that might not be perfectly beautiful, present it
36、 well and price it competitively with junk food. A dime for an apple, say, instead of a buck? F. “We let perfect be the enemy of the good: If we go into store and see a pumpkin that is defective or misshapen, we“ll pick the one next to it,“ Rauch says, “but we make exceptions in two cases. One, we c
37、all it heirloom (传家宝). It can be ugly, and should be. And two is the farmers“ market. You don“t expect apples to look like they do at Whole Foods. You“d be suspicious. What“s interesting is that we instinctively know that things in nature aren“t supposed to look like this.“ G. The idea at Daily Tabl
38、e is to create an atmosphere similar to a farmers market. “In the real world, carrots will often have two legs rather than one, but you never see those in the grocery store, because they“re almost always thrown out,“ says Nathanael Johnson, food writer for Grist and the author of All Natural , a boo
39、k that debates when “natural“ is really healthy. “We“ve become so alienated from our farms that we can no longer assess the healthfulness of our food. Instead, people are attracted to external perfection.“ H. Daily Table will also tackle the problem of sell-by date versus expiration date. “When a gr
40、ocer sells you a gallon of milk, if it says sell by April 2, it doesn“t mean that you have to go home and drink it that night,“ Rauch says. “Generally, it will last a week after that. Most Americans don“t know that. So we are disposing of perfectly good food that“s healthy and wholesome.“ Consumer e
41、ducation is part of his mission; the store will work with quality assurance food labs and manufacturers to determine conservative “use-by“ dates, giving customers information on what they mean, as well as plenty of time to use products. I. Europe is in the forefront when it comes to tackling ugly fo
42、od. The EU has designated 2014 the “European Year Against Food Waste“. After a British member of Parliament, Laura Sandys, set up a company to encourage the sale and use of odd fruits and vegetablesfood should be valued for nutrition, she said, “not whether it is fit for a catwalk“the supermarket gi
43、ant Sainsbury“s changed rules governing the aesthetic appearance of its fresh produce. Last year, the rebranding of ugly food came to pass in Switzerland and Germany. The produce is cheaper, and goes fast. Recently, three German graduate students cooked up the idea for a fashionable grocery that sel
44、ls only ugly fruit. J. A recent report commissioned by the U.K. global food security program shows that of a given crop of fruit or vegetables grown in the country, up to 40 percent is rejected because it doesn“t meet retailer standards on size or shape. That“s a sizable amount of the $31.3 billion
45、of food that gets thrown away in Britain every year. American supermarkets lose $15 billion each year in unsold fruits and vegetables. American consumers like their apples red and their bananas unspotted, so grocery stores complysometimes even dyeing and cutting to fit. K. Changing mainstream cultur
46、e to accept a curved cucumber has bigger implications than just cost. Given that 20 to 30 percent of greenhouse gas emissions come from agriculture, food waste is a huge piece of the global climate problem. Last month, a new study by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change revealed scientists“
47、 deep concerns about dropping agricultural productionas much as 2 percent per decade for the rest of the century. The panel“s researchers have also found that though minor improvements can be made to improve efficiency in agriculture, the real game changers will lie on the consumption side. L. “The
48、best forecasts I“ve seen suggest that we are going to have to double agricultural production by 2050,“ says Johnson. “Doing that without cutting down the rain forest is going to be a tremendous challenge especially given that climate change is actually driving farm productivity down.“ The single bes
49、t idea for solving this problem, with the lowest costs and fewest trade-offs? Stop throwing away so much of the food we grow. M. So in the short term, the issue looks skin-deep: Ugly food is just as good as pretty food, and it“s easier on the wallet. In the long term, a preference for ugly may support our global food supply. N. “Is it possible to tell the story and have people better educated and smarter about buying food?“ Ranch asks. “The difference between that sell-by date and when t
