1、大学英语六级（2013 年 12 月考试改革适用）-试卷 209 及答案解析(总分：118.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、Writing(总题数：2，分数：4.00)1.Part I Writing（分数：2.00）_2.For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay commenting on the remark “Are Western Festivals Undermining Chinese Culture?“ You can cite examples to illustrate your point. Yo
2、u should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words. Write your essay on Answer Sheet 1.（分数：2.00）_二、Listening Comprehens(总题数：11，分数：50.00)3.Part II Listening Comprehension_4.Section A_A.London.B.Paris.C.New York.D.Beijing.A.Her brother.B.Her mother.C.Her boyfriend.D.Her husband.A.She saw the
3、 queen.B.She visited the Buckingham Palace.C.She met Benedict Cumberbatch.D.She saw many fine sceneries.A.She got a glimpse of the queen.B.She has been to London for relax.C.She had a wonderful time in London.D.She saw many old castles.A.He got a sore throat.B.He injured his leg.C.He broke his arm.D
4、.He had a stomachache.A.Two days.B.Three days.C.Four days.D.Five days.A.He caught cold.B.He ate rotten food.C.He breathed in harmful chemical vapours.D.He fell from his bicycle.A.Lying in his bed.B.Seeing the doctor.C.Visiting his parents.D.Delivering a lecture.5.Section B_A.The depressing cold weat
5、her.B.The bad economic situation.C.Unhealthy diet.D.Drugs and alcohol.A.Twenty.B.Twenty-four.C.Twenty-six.D.Twenty-eight.A.10,000.B.7,950.C.240.D.4,750.A.The wealthy white children.B.Children from middle class families.C.Poor white children.D.Poor children from ethnic minorities.A.Since the kinderga
6、rten.B.Since the primary school.C.Since the middle school.D.Since the high school.A.Improvements of childrens achievements in school can be made.B.Children s heath can be improved.C.The school needs to care more about children s special talents.D.The educational system can be improved.A.Adding some
7、science courses.B.Recruiting more good teachers.C.Build more labs.D.Buying more teaching equipments.6.Section C_A.Competition in business.B.Government grants.C.A type of economic policy.D.International transportation practices.A.American industrialists.B.French economists.C.International leaders.D.C
8、ivil War veterans.A.The rights of private business owners should be protected.B.The government shouldnt interfere in private business.C.Politicians should support industrial growth.D.Competition among companies should be restricted.A.It divides into two different parts.B.It keeps the same chemical s
9、tructure.C.It becomes part of a new chemical compound.D.It produces more of the enzyme(酶).A.Provide extra energy to start the reaction.B.Raise the temperature of the chemicals.C.Release a chemical needed to start the reaction.D.Lower the amount of energy needed to start the reaction.A.To show that e
10、nzymes are very effective.B.To point out that enzymes can sometimes fail to work.C.To explain what enzymes are made of.D.To describe different types of enzymes.A.The relationship between painting and sculpture.B.The ideas behind an artist s work.C.The practical value of a work of art.D.The way the e
11、ye perceives shape in sculpture.A.It is often displayed outdoors.B.It does not always represent an object.C.It is three-dimensional.D.It is done by relatively few artists.A.To give an example of natural shapes.B.To describe early sculpture.C.To illustrate their use as tools.D.To demonstrate their ro
12、le as decorative objects.A.They are always made of stone.B.They are painted in bright colors.C.They contain moving parts.D.They make use of holes.三、Reading Comprehensio(总题数：8，分数：60.00)7.Part III Reading Comprehension_8.Section A_The American 1system, is organized around a basically private-enterpris
13、e, market-oriented economy in which 2largely determine what shall be produced by spending their money in the marketplace for those goods and services that they want most. Private businessmen, 3to make profits, produce these goods and services in 4with other businessmen: and the profit motive, operat
14、ing under competitive pressures, largely determines how these goods and services are produced. Thus, in the American economic system it is the demand of individual consumers, 5with the desire of businessmen to 6profits and the desire of individual to maximize their incomes, that together determine w
15、hat shall be produced and how resources are used to produce it. An important factor in a market-oriented economy is the 7by which consumer demands can be expressed and responded to by producers. In the American economy, this mechanism is provided by a price system, a process in which prices rise and
16、 fall in 8to relative demands of consumers and supplies offered by seller-producers. If the product is in 9supply relative to the demand, the price will be bid up and some consumers will be eliminated from the market. If, on the other hand, producing more of a commodity results in reducing its cost,
17、 this will tend to increase the supply offered by seller-producers, which in turn will lower the price and permit more consumers to buy the product. Thus, price is the 10mechanism in the American economic system.A)competition B)maximize C)short D)coupledE)individual F)response G)eliminated H)private
18、I)economic J)striving K)regulating L)mechanismM)consumers N)political O)results（分数：20.00）填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_10.Section B_Prison StudiesA)Many who today hear me somewhere in person, or on television, or those who read something Ive said, will think I
19、 went to school far beyond the eighth grade. This impression is due entirely to my prison studies.B)It had really begun back in the Charlestown Prison, when Bimbi first made me feel envy of his stock of knowledge. Bimbi had always taken charge of any conversation he was in, and I had tried to emulat
20、e him. But every book I picked up had few sentences which didnt contain anywhere from one to nearly all of the words that might as well have been in Chinese. When I just skipped those words, of course, I really ended up with little idea of what the book said. So I had come to the Norfolk Prison Colo
21、ny still going through only book-reading motions. Pretty soon, I would have quit even these motions, unless I had received the motivation that I did.C)I saw that the best thing I could do was get hold of a dictionaryto study, to learn some words. I was lucky enough to reason also that I should try t
22、o improve my penmanship. It was sad. I couldnt even write in a straight line. It was both ideas together that moved me to request a dictionary along with some tablets and pencils from the Norfolk Prison Colony School.D)I spent two days just thumbing uncertainly through the dictionarys pages. Ive nev
23、er realized so many words existed! I didnt know which words I needed to learn. Finally, to start some kind of action, I began copying.E)In my slow, painstaking, ragged handwriting, I copied into my tablet everything printed on that first page, down to the punctuation marks. I believe it took me a da
24、y. Then, aloud, I read back, to myself, everything Ive written on the tablet. Over and over, aloud, to myself, I read my own handwriting.F)I woke up the next morning, thinking about those wordsimmensely proud to realize that not only had I written so much at one time, but Ive written words that I ne
25、ver knew were in the world. Moreover, with a little effort, I also could remember what many of these words meant. I reviewed the words whose meanings I didnt remember. Funny thing, from the dictionarys first page right now, that “aardvark“ springs to my mind. The dictionary had a picture of it, a lo
26、ng-tailed, long-eared, burrowing African mammal, which lives off termites caught by sticking out its tongue as an anteater does for ants.G)I was so fascinated that I went onI copied the dictionary s next page. And the same experience came when I studied that. With every succeeding page, I also learn
27、ed of people and places and events from history. Actually the dictionary is like a miniature encyclopaedia. Finally the dictionarys A section had filled a whole tabletand I went on into the B s. That was the way I started copying what eventually became the entire dictionary. I went a lot faster afte
28、r so much practice helped me to pick up handwriting speed. Between what I wrote in my tablet, and writing letters, during the rest of my time in prison I would guess I wrote a million words.H)I suppose it was inevitable that as my word-base broadened, I could for the first time pick up a book and re
29、ad and now begin to understand what the book was saying. Anyone who has read a great deal can imagine the new world that opened. Let me tell you something: from then until I left that prison, in every free moment I had, if I was not reading in the library, I was reading on my bunk. You couldnt have
30、got me out of books with a wedge. Between Mr. Muhammads teachings, my correspondence, my visitors, and my reading of books, months passed without my even thinking about being imprisoned. In fact, up to then, I never had been so truly free in my life.I)As you can imagine, especially in a prison where
31、 there was heavy emphasis on rehabilitation, an inmate was smiled upon if he demonstrated an unusually intense interest in books. There was a sizable number of well-read inmates, especially the popular debaters. Some were said by many to be practically walking encyclopaedias. They were almost celebr
32、ities. No university would ask any student to devour literature as I did when this new world opened to me, of being able to read and understand.J)I read more in my room than in the library itself. An inmate who was known to read a lot could check out more than the permitted maximum number of books.
33、I preferred reading in the total isolation of my own room.K)When I had progressed to really serious reading, every night at about ten p.m. I would be outraged with the “lights out“. It always seemed to catch me right in the middle of something engrossing.L)Fortunately, right outside my door was a co
34、rridor light that cast a glow into my room. The glow was enough to read by, once my eyes adjusted to it. So when “lights out“ came, I would sit on the floor where I could continue reading in that glow.M)At one-hour intervals the night guards paced past every room. Each time I heard the approaching f
35、ootsteps, I jumped into bed and feigned sleep. And as soon as the guard passed, I got back out of bed onto the floor area of that light-glow, where I would read for another fifty-eight minutesuntil the guard approached again. That went on until three or four every morning. Three or four hours of sle
36、ep a night was enough for me. Often in the years in the streets I had slept less than that.N)I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read a-woke inside
37、 me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive. I certainly wasnt seeking any degree, the way a college confers a status symbol upon its students. My homemade education gave me, with every additional book that I read, a little bit more sensitivity to the deafness, dumbness, and blindness that wa
38、s afflicting the black race in America. Not long ago, an English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, “Whats your alma mater?“ I told him, “Books.“ You will never catch me with a free fifteen minutes in which Im not studying something I feel might be able to help the black ma
39、n .O)Every time I catch a plane, I have with me a book that I want to readand thats a lot of books these days. If I werent out here every day battling the white man, I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiositybecause you can hardly mention anything I m not curious about.
40、I dont think anybody ever got more out of going to prison than I did. In fact, prison enabled me to study far more intensively than I would have if my life had gone differently and I had attended some college. I imagine that one of the biggest problems of colleges is there are too many distractions.
41、 Where else but in prison could I have attacked my ignorance by being able to study intensely sometimes as much as fifteen hours a day?（分数：20.00）(1).In that way I began copying, and continued to copy, the whole dictionary.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_(2).You could never have forced me away from book.（分数：2.00）填空项
42、 1:_(3).In a prison whose objective was to help reintegrate prisoners in a normal life, a prisoner who showed a particularly keen interest in books was encouraged and approved of.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_(4).“Lights out“ always seemed to happen just when I was reading something that completely absorbed my in
43、terest.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_(5).Today I believe that it was my ability to read that lit inside me a strong desire to be mentally activea desire which had long been suppressed.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_(6).The best way to overcome having to fake reading was to find a dictionary.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_(7).But every book I
44、looked at was full of sentences which contained at least one word and sometimes almost all that were completely unknown to me, as if a totally foreign language.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_(8).Many people present at my speeches these dayswhether actually there or watching me on television . will think that I rec
45、eived much more education than just eight years.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_(9).I believe no one ever benefited more than I did from going to prison.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_(10).As soon as my eyes became accustomed to it, the light from the corridor lamp was enough for reading.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_11.Section C_Amazon is facing a battle with UK publishers as it seeks to secure more advantageous terms in its latest round of contract negotiations. The web giant wants the right to print books itself if publishers fail to provide adequate stock, and wants pu
