1、大学英语六级分类模拟题 437 及答案解析(总分：237.50，做题时间：90 分钟)一、Part Reading Compr(总题数：0，分数：0.00)二、Section B(总题数：1，分数：71.00)Triumph of the CityA 243 million Americans crowd together in the 3 percent of the country that is urban. 36 million people live in and around Tokyo, the most productive metropolitan area in the w
2、orld. Twelve million people reside in central Mumbai. On a planet with vast amounts of space, all of humanity could fit in Texaseach of us with a personal townhouse, we choose cities. Although it has become cheaper to travel long distances, or to telecommute, more and more people are clustering clos
3、er and closer together in large metropolitan areas. Five million more people every month live in the cities of the developing world, and in 2011, more than half the world“s population is urban. B Cities, the dense agglomerations (凝聚物) that dot the globe, have been engines of innovation since Plato a
4、nd Socrates argued in an Athenian marketplace. The streets of Florence gave us the Renaissance, and the streets of Birmingham gave us the Industrial Revolution. The great prosperity of contemporary London and Tokyo comes from their ability to produce new thinking. Wandering these citieswhether down
5、stone sidewalks or grid-cutting cross streets, around roundabouts or under freewaysis to study nothing less than human progress. C In the richer countries of the West, cities have survived the end of the industrial age and are now wealthier, healthier, and more tempting than ever. In the world“s poo
6、rer places, cities are expanding enormously because urban density provides the clearest path from poverty to prosperity. Despite the technological breakthroughs that have caused the death of distance, it turns out that the world isn“t flat; it“s paved. D The city has triumphed. But as many of us kno
7、w from personal experience, sometimes city roads are paved to hell. The city may win, but too often its citizens seem to lose. Every urban childhood is shaped by extraordinary people and experiencessome delicious, like the sense of power that comes from a preteen“s first subway trip alone; some less
8、 so, like a first exposure to urban gunfire. For every Fifth Avenue, there“s a Mumbai slum; for every Sorbonne, there“s a D.C. high school guarded by metal detectors. E Indeed, for many Americans, the latter half of the twentieth centurythe end of the industrial agewas an education not in urban sple
9、ndor (辉煌) but in urban squalor (惨状). How well we learn from the lessons our cities teach us will determine whether our urban species will flourish in what can be a new golden age of the city. F My passion for the urban world was inspired by my metropolitan childhood; I“ve spent my life trying to und
10、erstand cities. That quest has been rooted in economic theory and data, but it has also meandered (蜿蜒) through the histories of metropolitan areas and the everyday stories of those who live and work in them. I find studying cities so interesting because they pose fascinating, important, and often tr
11、oubling questions. Why do the richest and poorest people in the world so often live side by side? How do once-mighty cities fall into disrepair? Why do so many artistic movements arise so quickly in particular cities at particular moments? Why do so many smart people enact so many foolish urban poli
12、cies? G There“s no better place to ponder these questions than what many consider to be the prototypical cityNew York. Native New Yorkers, like myself, may occasionally have a slightly exaggerated view of their city“s importance, but New York is still a model of urbanity and therefore an appropriate
13、 place to start our journey to cities across the world. Its story includes the past, present, and future of our urban centers, and provides a springboard for many of the themes that will emerge from the pages and places ahead. H If you stand on Forty-seventh Street and Fifth Avenue this Wednesday af
14、ternoon, you“ll he surrounded by people. Some are rushing uptown for a meeting or downtown to grab a drink. Others are walking east to enter the Grand Central Terminal, which has more platforms than any other train station in the world. Some people may be trying to buy an engagement ringafter all, F
15、orty-seventh Street is the nation“s premier market for jewels. There will be visitors gazing upwardsomething New Yorkers never doon their way from one landmark to another. If you imitate a tourist and look up, you“ll see two great ridges of skyscrapers framing the valley that is Fifth Avenue. I Thir
16、ty years ago, New York City“s future looked far less bright. Like almost every colder, older city. The city“s subways and buses felt out of date in a world being rebuilt around the car. The city“s port, once the glory of the Eastern seaboard, had sunk into irrelevance. Under the leadership of John L
17、indsay and Abe Beame, the city“s government had come near default despite having some of the highest taxes in the nation. Not just Jerry Ford. but history itself seemed to be telling New York City to drop dead. J New York, or more properly New Amsterdam, was founded during an earlier era of globaliz
18、ation as a distant outpost of the Dutch West India Company. It was a trading village where a hodgepodge (大杂烩) of adventurers came to make fortunes swapping pearls for furs. Those Dutch settlers clustered together because proximity made it easier to exchange goods and ideas and because there was safe
19、ty behind the town“s protective wall (now Wall Street). K In the eighteenth century, New York passed Boston to become the English colonies“ most important port; it specialized in shipping wheat and flour south to feed the sugar and tobacco colonies. During the first half of the nineteenth century, w
20、ith business booming, New York“s population grew from sixty thousand to eight hundred thousand, and the city became America“s urban giants. That population explosion was partly due to changes in transportation technology. At the start of the nineteenth century, ships were generally smallthree hundre
21、d tons was a normal sizeand, like smaller airplanes today, ideal for point-to-point trips, like Liverpool to Charlestown or Boston to Glasgow. Between 1800 and 1850, improvements in technology and finance brought forth larger ships that could carry bigger loads at faster speeds and lower cost. L The
22、re was no percentage in having these huge ships traveling to every point along the American coast. Just like today“s Boeing 747s, which land at major centers and transfer their passengers onto smaller planes that take them to their final destinations, the big ships came to one central bay and then t
23、ransferred their goods to smaller vessels for delivery up and down the Eastern seaboard. New York was America“s super port, with its central location, deep, protected harbor, and river access far into the inland. When America moved to a hub-and-spoke shipping system, New York became the natural hub.
24、（分数：71.00）(1).Cheaper long-distance travel and telecommunication did not lead people to move away from the cities.（分数：7.10）(2).The author considers New York as a proper place to start our trip to other cities because it is a model of urbanity.（分数：7.10）(3).When traveling through contemporary London a
25、nd Tokyo, people learn a lot about human progress.（分数：7.10）(4).New York City seemed to drop dead thirty years ago.（分数：7.10）(5).Cities in the world“s poorer places are experiencing great expansion because urban density facilitates the breaking away from poverty.（分数：7.10）(6).A mess of adventurers who
26、wanted to make fortunes came to New York where was a trading village.（分数：7.10）(7).The lessons we draw from our cities will determine whether urban people will have a prosperous future.（分数：7.10）(8).In the 18th century, New York functioned as the most important port shipping food to feed the sugar and
27、 tobacco colonies.（分数：7.10）(9).The author“s metropolitan childhood inspired his passion for cities.（分数：7.10）(10).Between 1800 and 1850, larger ships that could carry bigger loads at faster speeds and lower cost could be built due to improvements in technology and finance.（分数：7.10）三、Part Translation(
28、总题数：10，分数：166.50)1.农历九月初九，为中国传统的 重阳节 (the Double Ninth Festival)。重阳节的起源可追溯至春秋战国时期，距今已有约 2000 年的历史。庆祝重阳节的活动一般包括出游赏景、爬山登高、观赏 菊花 (chrysanthemum)、身插 茱萸 (dogwood plant)、吃重阳糕、饮菊花 酒 (white spirit)等。重阳节又称老人节，因为在汉语中“九九”与“久久”同音，有长寿的含义，所以人们常在此日举行祭祖和 敬老崇孝 (filial piety)的活动。重阳佳节，寓意深远，人们对它有着特殊的感情，因此历代诗词中不乏贺重阳、咏菊花
29、的佳作。 （分数：10.00）_2.宋庆龄宋庆龄是 20 世纪举世闻名的伟大女性。她追随中国近代民主革命家孙中山，1915 年和孙中山结婚，中华人民共和国成立后她两度担任国家副主席。在近 70 年的革命生涯中，她为中国人民的解放事业，为中国妇女儿童的卫生保健和文化教育福利事业，为祖国统一以及保卫世界和平、促进人类进步的事业，作出了不可磨灭的贡献。长期以来，宋庆龄女士都受到中国人民、海外华人华侨的景仰和爱戴，也赢得了国际友人的赞誉和热爱，享有很高的威望。 （分数：20.00）_3.家庭是中国传统社会的基础。在中国传统家庭中，每个人与不同的家人相处时，都要循规蹈矩地遵守一定的礼节(etiquett
30、e)。特别是在那些人口众多且成员复杂的大家族里，更需要严格的礼节和规矩，以界定彼此的关系，约束个人的行为，而使家庭和谐有序。在一个大家族里，辈分最高的人往往具有至高无上的权威。受“男尊女卑”观念(“patriarchal” mentality)的影响，丈夫在家庭中的地位绝对在妻子之上。受现代文明的冲击，女性的地位如今有所提高。 （分数：12.50）_4.论语作为儒家的经典著作之一，论语(The Analects of Confucius)收录了孔子及其弟子(disciples)的言语和思想。传统上认为它是由孔子的弟子编写，并于中汉时期发展成其最终的形式。在汉朝早期，论语只被认为是“五经(the
31、 “Five Classics“)”的一部“评论”。宋朝晚期，论语作为一本哲学著作的重要性已经超越了“五经”，并且被认为是“四书(the “Four Books“)”之一。在过去的两千年里，论语是被阅读和研究最多的书籍之一，并在现今继续对中国人的思想和价值观产生重大的影响。 （分数：20.00）_5.儿童出版市场在数字阅读的强力冲击下，传统图书出版市场近年来一直不太景气，但在低迷的市场中却有一匹“黑马”儿童出版市场。在 图书零售业 (book retail industry)总体走低的大背景下，儿童出版市场保持着逆市上扬的趋势，已成为拉动市场的领跑板块。随着国家逐渐放开“二胎”政策，业内预计未
32、来几年整个婴童消费市场的收益有望超过 2 万亿元。教育支出已成为仅次于食物的家庭第二大日常支出。出版物作为儿童教育的重要组成部分，也将迎来快速增长的空间。 （分数：20.00）_6.无线网络(WIFI, Wireless Fidelity)的出现使许多有线网络解决不了的问题迎刃而解。相比有线网络，无线网络具有更灵活、低成本、更美观的优点。然而，一切事物有利也有弊。无线网络也同时存在着许多缺陷，例如它的安全性。无线网络更容易遭到入侵、面临更多地威胁，因此必须采取更有效、更全面的技术措施，以维护无线网络免受侵扰。无线网络早已被应用到各个领域中，它特有的优点决定了它将成为未来网络技术发展的主方向。
33、（分数：10.00）_7.成为有学识的人我们必须认识到成为有学识的人是一项艰难、费力的事业。人们会认为那些把剧烈体能训练说成是愉悦和快乐的持续源泉的人是愚蠢的，因为我们都知道这种训练意味着多少痛苦和挫折，因此，任何把竭尽智力说成是快乐和欣喜的持续源泉的人也同样是愚蠢的，因为这种努力也会有痛苦和挫折。当然，学习和运动中都会有乐趣，然而，在两种情形中，只有克服真正的挑战并付出辛苦才能得到快乐。 （分数：20.00）_8.西安作为十二朝古都，见证了历史的荣辱兴衰。历史在这里留下的文物景观和遗址不胜枚举，如 兵马俑 (Terracotta Warriors and Horses)、 大雁塔 (the
34、Giant Wild Goose Pagoda)、华清池等都是人类文化艺术的瑰宝。大雁塔位于西安南郊，建于唐代，是唐朝太子李治为了追念他的母亲文德皇后而建立的，至今已经有 1,000 多年的历史。大雁塔塔身由青砖砌成，结构坚固，外观简单又不失庄严，最初建立的时候只有 5 层，后来又经过多次重修，现在的塔是 7 层，高达 64 米。 （分数：20.00）_9.放风筝是一种传统的体育游戏，在中国广受欢迎。风筝被称为人类最早的飞行器，2000 多年前起源于中国。相传伟大的建筑大师鲁班做了一个乌形木鸢(wooden kite)，它可以在空中飞行。在此之后，纸被用来制作风筝，因此称之为“纸风筝”。从汉代
35、开始，风筝被用于测量和发送消息。放风筝作为一项运动在中国有着悠久的历史，北京是最有名的放风筝的地点之一。1989 年，国际风筝联合会正式成立，总部设在山东省潍坊市。 （分数：14.00）_10.西游记是中国四大名著之一，由明代小说家吴承恩编著而成。此书描写的是四个角色西天取经的传奇历险故事。任何一部文学作品都是一定社会生活的反映，西游记亦不例外。孙悟空代表了一种正义的力量，表现出人民战胜一切困难的信念，而那些 妖魔 (demons)则是邪恶势力的象征。西游记已经被改编成各种地方戏曲、电影、电视剧、动画片、漫画等，它还被翻译成多种语言在世界各地广为流传。（分数：20.00）_大学英语六级分类模拟
36、题 437 答案解析(总分：237.50，做题时间：90 分钟)一、Part Reading Compr(总题数：0，分数：0.00)二、Section B(总题数：1，分数：71.00)Triumph of the CityA 243 million Americans crowd together in the 3 percent of the country that is urban. 36 million people live in and around Tokyo, the most productive metropolitan area in the world. Twelv
37、e million people reside in central Mumbai. On a planet with vast amounts of space, all of humanity could fit in Texaseach of us with a personal townhouse, we choose cities. Although it has become cheaper to travel long distances, or to telecommute, more and more people are clustering closer and clos
38、er together in large metropolitan areas. Five million more people every month live in the cities of the developing world, and in 2011, more than half the world“s population is urban. B Cities, the dense agglomerations (凝聚物) that dot the globe, have been engines of innovation since Plato and Socrates
39、 argued in an Athenian marketplace. The streets of Florence gave us the Renaissance, and the streets of Birmingham gave us the Industrial Revolution. The great prosperity of contemporary London and Tokyo comes from their ability to produce new thinking. Wandering these citieswhether down stone sidew
40、alks or grid-cutting cross streets, around roundabouts or under freewaysis to study nothing less than human progress. C In the richer countries of the West, cities have survived the end of the industrial age and are now wealthier, healthier, and more tempting than ever. In the world“s poorer places,
41、 cities are expanding enormously because urban density provides the clearest path from poverty to prosperity. Despite the technological breakthroughs that have caused the death of distance, it turns out that the world isn“t flat; it“s paved. D The city has triumphed. But as many of us know from pers
42、onal experience, sometimes city roads are paved to hell. The city may win, but too often its citizens seem to lose. Every urban childhood is shaped by extraordinary people and experiencessome delicious, like the sense of power that comes from a preteen“s first subway trip alone; some less so, like a
43、 first exposure to urban gunfire. For every Fifth Avenue, there“s a Mumbai slum; for every Sorbonne, there“s a D.C. high school guarded by metal detectors. E Indeed, for many Americans, the latter half of the twentieth centurythe end of the industrial agewas an education not in urban splendor (辉煌) b
44、ut in urban squalor (惨状). How well we learn from the lessons our cities teach us will determine whether our urban species will flourish in what can be a new golden age of the city. F My passion for the urban world was inspired by my metropolitan childhood; I“ve spent my life trying to understand cit
45、ies. That quest has been rooted in economic theory and data, but it has also meandered (蜿蜒) through the histories of metropolitan areas and the everyday stories of those who live and work in them. I find studying cities so interesting because they pose fascinating, important, and often troubling que
46、stions. Why do the richest and poorest people in the world so often live side by side? How do once-mighty cities fall into disrepair? Why do so many artistic movements arise so quickly in particular cities at particular moments? Why do so many smart people enact so many foolish urban policies? G There“s no better place to ponder these questions than what many consider to be the prototypical cityNew York. Native New Yorkers, like myself, may occasionally have a slightly exaggerated view of their city“s importance, but New Yo
