1、大学英语六级（2013 年 12 月考试改革适用）-试卷 214 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 a short essay on peoples addiction to smartphones. Try to imagine what will happen when people spend more and more time with their smartp
2、hones. You are required to write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.（分数：2.00）_二、Listening Comprehens(总题数：11，分数：50.00)3.Part II Listening Comprehension_4.Section A_A.When to move.B.Where to live the following year.C.How much time to spend at home.D.Whose house to visit.A.Take some money to
3、 the housing office.B.Inform the director of student housing in a letter.C.Fill out a form in the library.D.Maintain a high grade average.A.Both live on campus.B.Both live off campus.C.The man lives on campus; the woman lives off campus.D.The woman lives on campus; the man lives off campus.A.Grades.
4、B.Privacy.C.Sports.D.Money.A.Theyve lost their suitcases.B.They cant find their dormitory.C.Their dorm rooms have been given to other students.D.Theyve missed the bus to their dormitory.A.Its far from the academic buildings.B.No buses go to it.C.There are few first-year students living there.D.Its o
5、lder than the other dormitories.A.Its fast.B.It runs at inconvenient times.C.It runs at convenient times.D.Its slow.A.They can get exercise.B.Its boring.C.They can go by bike.D.Its interesting.5.Section B_A.Given by the local government.B.Born by a large number of dogs.C.Bought from different cities
6、 and villages.D.Captured over grassland.A.11-week course for control duty.B.11-week course for patrol duty.C.9-week course for control duty.D.9-week course for patrol duty.A.Catching runaway criminals.B.Scratching the hidden bombs.C.Patrolling the dangerous town.D.Drug-sniffing and bomb-sniffing.A.T
7、he causes are common.B.The causes are not well understood.C.The causes are obvious.D.The causes are very complicated.A.Improved highway design.B.Better public transportation.C.Regular driver training.D.Stricter traffic regulations.A.Highway crime.B.Drivers errors.C.Poor traffic control.D.Confusing r
8、oad signs.A.Increasing peoples awareness of traffic problems.B.Enhancing drivers sense of responsibility.C.Building more highways.D.Designing better cars.6.Section C_A.October 2000.B.December 2000.C.September 2001.D.December 2001.A.Faculty and staff salaries have increased.B.International students o
9、ffice has been enlarged.C.No staff has been added in the home office.D.Tuition fees have been increased in many other universities.A.it has been increased many times.B.It has been increased once only.C.It has been increased continually.D.It has never been increased before.A.$ 3 ,600 per term.B.$ 3 ,
10、800 per term.C.$ 13 ,800 per term.D.$ 13 ,800 per year.A.In Trafalgar Square.B.In Oxford Street and Bond Street.C.In Oxford Street and Regent Street.D.In Soho and Bond Street.A.In the middle of Leicester Square.B.In the middle of Trafalgar Square.C.Behind the National Gallery.D.In the centre of Soho
11、.A.Sweden.B.Denmark.C.Germany.D.Norway.A.In 1791.B.In 1917.C.In 1691.D.In 1916.A.Massachusetts College.B.Yale College.C.Boston College.D.Art School.A.An electrician.B.An inventor.C.An artist.D.A traveler.三、Reading Comprehensio(总题数：8，分数：60.00)7.Part III Reading Comprehension_8.Section A_Eat like a Gr
12、eek, and it could cut your risk of having a heart attack, stroke, or dying from heart disease by about 30 percent, according to an attention-grabbing 1 published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine. While this is far from the first paper to find a 2between the Mediterranean diet and hea
13、rt health, it is unique because of its large size and design. It randomized a group of more than 7,000 people at high risk of heart disease to follow either one of two kinds of Mediterranean diets (one supplemented with olive oil and one with nuts) or a low-fat diet. This is the most 3way to show th
14、at the diet itself was causing the differences in health outcomes. The 4 in the study, men and women between ages 55 and 80, had either type 2 diabetes or at least three major risk factors for heart disease, such as smoking, obesity, high blood pressure, high LDL cholesterol or low HDL cholesterol.
15、So what did they eat, exactly? The two groups of 5dieters were 6to eat fish and legumes three times a week, eat white meat instead of red, and avoid processed cookies and cakes. One group was told to use at least four tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil daily; the other was encouraged to eat an ou
16、nce of nuts each day. The low-fat dieters, it 7out, actually didnt lower their fat intake much. They basically ate their usual diet, including red meat, soda, and processed foods. 8with the group on the low-fat diet, the olive oil group had a 30 percent lower risk of heart attack, stroke or dying of
17、 heart disease after five years. Those in the nuts group had a 28 percent lower risk. “The strength of this study comes from the fact that we measured hard outcomes and not just blood pressure or changes in 9levels,“ study author Ramon Estruch, from the Department of Internal Medicine at the Hospita
18、l Clinic of Barcelona, told Time. com. “We really believe the Mediterranean diet lowers 10of heart attack, stroke and cardiovascular deaths.“A) cholesterol B) pressure C) Mediterranean D) subjects E) strongF) connection G) turned H) combination I) encouraged J) studyK) predicted L) incidence M) Comp
19、ared N) different O) powerful（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_Deer Populations of the Puget SoundA) Two species of deer have been prevalent in the Puget Sound area of Washington State in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. The black
20、-tailed deer, lowland, west-side cousin of the mule deer of eastern Washington, is now the most common. The other species, the Columbian white-tailed deer, in earlier times was common in the open prairie country, it is now restricted to the low, marshy islands and flood plains along the lower Columb
21、ia River.B) Nearly any kind of plant of the forest understory can be part of a deers diet. Where the forest inhibits the growth of grass and other meadow plants, the black-tailed deer browses on huckleberry, salal, dogwood , and almost any other shrub or herb. But this is fair-weather feeding. What
22、keeps the black-tailed deer alive in the harsher seasons of plant decay and dormancy? One compensation for not hibernating is the built-in urge to migrate. Deer may move from high-elevation browse areas in summer down to the lowland areas in late fall. Even with snow on the ground, the high bushy un
23、derstory is exposed; also snow and wind bring down leafy branches of cedar, hemlock, red alder, and other arboreal fodder.C) The numbers of deer have fluctuated markedly since the entry of Europeans into Puget Sound country. The early explorers and settlers told of abundant deer in the early 1800s a
24、nd yet almost in the same breath bemoaned the lack of this succulent game animal. Famous explorers of the north American frontier , Lewis and Clark had experienced great difficulty finding game west of the Rockies and not until the second of December did they kill their first elk. To keep 40 people
25、alive that winter, they consumed approximately 150 elk and 20 deer. And when game moved out of the lowlands in early spring, the expedition decided to return east rather than face possible starvation. Later on in the early years of the nineteenth century, when Fort Vancouver became the headquarters
26、of the Hudsons Bay Company, deer populations continued to fluctuate. David Douglas, Scottish botanical explorer of the 1830s found a disturbing change in the animal life around the fort during the period between his first visit in 1825 and his final contact with the fort in 1832. A recent Douglas bi
27、ographer states; “The deer which once picturesquely dotted the meadows around the fort were gone (in 1832), hunted to extermination in order to protect the crops.“D) Reduction in numbers of game should have boded ill for their survival in later times. A worsening of the plight of deer was to be expe
28、cted as settlers encroached on the land, logging, burning, and clearing, eventually replacing a wilderness landscape with roads, cities, towns, and factories. No doubt the numbers of deer declined still further. Recall the fate of the Columbian white-tailed deer, now in a protected status.E) But for
29、 the black-tailed deer, human pressure has had just the opposite effect. Wild life zoologist Hulmut Buechner (1953), in reviewing the nature of biotic changes in Washington through recorded time, Says that “since the early 1940s, the state has had more deer than at any other time in its history, the
30、 winter population fluctuating around approximately 320,000 deer (mule and black-tailed deer), which will yield about 65,000 of either sex and any age annually for an indefinite period. “F) The causes of this population rebound are consequences of other human actions. First, the major predators of d
31、eerwolves, cougar, and lynxhave been greatly reduced in numbers. Second, conservation has been insured by limiting times for and types of hunting. But the most profound reason for the restoration of high population numbers has been the gate of the forests. Great tracts of lowland country deforested
32、by logging, fire, or both have become ideal feeding grounds of deer.G) In addition to finding an increase of suitable browse, like huckleberry and vine maple, Arthur Einarsen, longtime game biologist in the Pacific Northwest, found quality of browse in the open areas to be substantially more nutriti
33、ve. The protein content of shade-grown vegetation, for example, was much lower than that for plants grown in clearings.H) Deer are the ruminant mammals forming the family Cervidae. Species in the family include white-tailed deer, mule deer such as black-tailed deer, elk, moose, red deer, reindeer (c
34、aribou), fallow deer, roe deer and chital.I) Male deer of all species (except the Chinese water deer) and also female reindeer grow and shed new antlers each year. In this they differ from permanently horned animals such as antelope; these are in the same order as deer and may bear a superficial res
35、emblance. The musk deer of Asia and water chevrotain (or mouse deer) of tropical African and Asian forests are not usually regarded as true deer and form their own families, Moschidae and Tragulidae, respectively.J) Deer are widely distributed, with indigenous representatives in all continents excep
36、t Antarctica and Australia, though Africa has only one native species, the red deer, confined to the Atlas Mountains in the northwest of the continent. However, fallow deer have been introduced to South Africa.K) Deer live in a variety of biomes ranging from tundra to the tropical rainforest. While
37、often associated with forests, many deer are ecotone species that live in transitional areas between forests and thickets (for cover) and prairie and savanna (open space).L) The majority of large deer species inhabit temperate mixed forest, mountain mixed coniferous forest, tropical seasonal/dry for
38、est, and savanna habitats around the world. Clearing open areas within forests to some extent may actually benefit deer populations by exposing the understory and allowing the types of grasses, weeds, and herbs to grow that deer like to eat.M) Additionally, access to adjacent croplands may also bene
39、fit deer. However, adequate forest or plants must still be provided for populations to grow and thrive.N) Small species of brocket deer and pudus of Central and South America, and muntjacs of Asia generally occupy dense forests and are less often seen in open spaces, with the possible exception of t
40、he Indian Muntjac.O) There are also several species of deer that are highly specialized, and live almost exclusively in mountains, grasslands, swamps, and “wet“ savannas, or riparian corridors surrounded by deserts. Some deer have a circumpolar distribution in both North America and Eurasia.（分数：20.0
41、0）(1).The black-tailed deer has some relationship with the mule deer of eastern Washington.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_(2).Most of the male deer and part of the female deer grow and shed new antlers each year.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_(3).Deer may move from high-elevation browse areas in summer down to the lowland areas
42、in late fall.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_(4).There are different species of deer, such as elk, moose, red deer, reindeer (caribou) , fallow deer, roe deer and chital.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_(5).The explorers killed approximately 150 elk and 20 deer to keep 40 people alive in that winter.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_(6).Arthur Einar
43、sen, longtime game biologist in the Pacific Northwest, found quality of browse in the open areas to be substantially more nutritive.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_(7).The deer may not have a good luck for their survival in the future, considering the reduction in numbers.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_(8).The causes of this popu
44、lation rebound are results of other human actions.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_(9).The places where the majority of large deer species inhabit are temperate mixed forest, mountain mixed coniferous forest, tropical seasonal/dry forest, and savanna habitats around the world.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_(10).More than that, the
45、 access to croplands overlapping with the town would benefit deer.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_11.Section C_Spiders are known for many things. Sociability is not one of them. Most spiders are more likely to try to eat their neighbours than befriend them. Given that there are at least 43,678 species of spiders, though, it is not too surprising that a few have overcome their natural bad-temper and teamed up to form societies. So far, about two dozen such social spiders have been identified. And among them, something really strange has just been found. For one
