1、大学英语六级（ 2013年 12月考试改革适用）模拟试卷 225及答案与解析 一、 Part I Writing 1 For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled The Importance of Information Security. You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words. Write your essay on Answer Sheet 1. 1.很多人认为信息安全很重要 2.有的人认为信息不是实
2、物，所以信息安全无关紧要 3.我认为 Section A （ A） The one with the lowest price. （ B） The one from a famous maker. （ C） The one that is on sale. （ D） He doesnt care about the price. （ A） A digital watch with the date and time. （ B） A digital watch with yellow gold plating. （ C） A mechanical watch with a leather str
3、ap. （ D） A mechanical watch with a metal strap. （ A） The saleswoman writes words on the back of the watch for free. （ B） The man feels surprised that the shop can do him a special favor. （ C） The shop charges a little sum of money for this extra service. （ D） The saleswoman promises to finish writin
4、g the words in no time. （ A） Difficult to satisfy and full of demands. （ B） Polite but reluctant to spend money. （ C） Considerate, and loving his mother. （ D） Good at shopping but careless about money. （ A） Her neighbors son comes home late and wakes up her kids at night. （ B） Her neighbors often ho
5、ld a party at home and make big noise. （ C） Her neighbors son keeps the radio in his car turned on all the night. （ D） Her neighbors have far too much pride and show unfriendliness. （ A） She is too weak to show her dissatisfaction. （ B） She is afraid of upsetting the relationship. （ C） Her family wi
6、ll move to a new place soon. （ D） Her communication skills are too poor. （ A） Give her neighbors a call and make her requests. （ B） Meet her neighbors and tell them her trouble. （ C） Report the incident to the police directly. （ D） Keep silent until she cant bear them any more. （ A） Because she can
7、do it more politely. （ B） Because she has been driven crazy. （ C） Because she should keep her kids asleep. （ D） Because she shouldnt wait for their apology. Section B （ A） Water might become clean and pure. （ B） People will live in a better environment. （ C） There will be no police to protect people
8、. （ D） People need to spend more money on education. （ A） To build hospitals and schools. （ B） To build roads and railways. （ C） To train the police officers. （ D） To teach and train the citizens. （ A） Some people refuse to pay taxes. （ B） The rich people pay higher taxes. （ C） Every citizen has a d
9、uty to pay taxes. （ D） The taxes are used to make laws. （ A） They were the most terrible disaster on earth. （ B） They were warning signs of some big events. （ C） They were turnovers of the big dragons. （ D） They were punishment from an angry god. （ A） The surface of the earth is made up by 12 huge p
10、lates. （ B） The surface is the most important part of the earth. （ C） We can now tell where and when earthquakes will happen. （ D） Our earth is made up by some oceans and lands. （ A） It will have more earthquakes. （ B） It is becoming larger slowly. （ C） It is divided by a large plate. （ D） It will b
11、ecome even deeper. （ A） It is the meeting point of the Pacific and the North American Plates. （ B） It runs a length of roughly 1906 kilometers through California. （ C） It is one of the longest and most active faults in the world. （ D） It once caused the largest earthquake in the world. Section C （ A
12、） It was set up as a wholesaler 25 years ago. （ B） It sold camping equipment originally. （ C） It began offering holidays 10 years ago. （ D） It has been providing holidays for 50 years. （ A） In Italy. （ B） In Spain. （ C） In France. （ D） In Switzerland. （ A） A sports match. （ B） Singing or dancing. （
13、C） A poster completion. （ D） Model making. （ A） Be informed of latest holidays. （ B） Get a 20% discount off the holidays. （ C） Book a luxury tent for a lower price. （ D） Get a high-quality thank-you present. （ A） It tastes like rabbit. （ B） Its tough to chew. （ C） It has quite a lot of fat. （ D） Its
14、 dark in color. （ A） Making dresses. （ B） Decorating hats. （ C） Making fans. （ D） Making fast food. （ A） You need a lot of money to start the business. （ B） Young ostriches are very independent. （ C） Ostriches are always shut in cages. （ D） Special equipment is not needed for the farming. （ A） It wa
15、s originally built in 1940s. （ B） It was used by the Smith family. （ C） It got its name from the builder. （ D） It has been built into a university. （ A） Smoking is permitted in the rooms. （ B） No noise is allowed after 9 pm. （ C） Students can smoke on the balconies. （ D） There are fixed meal times.
16、（ A） Give the students the orientation packs. （ B） Hand over the keys to the students. （ C） Answer the students questions. （ D） Guide the students to the dining room. Section A 26 The U.S. dollar was supposed to be at the end of its rope. Kicking the bucket. Well, maybe not. The dollar continues to【
17、 C1】 _ gloom-and-doom predictions. After a swoon (低迷 ) last year, the dollar is again enjoying a major rally. The U.S. dollar index, which【 C2】 _ the dollars value against other major currencies, is just off an eight-month high. The main reason behind the dollars【 C3】 _ is actually no real surprise
18、at all. There is no alternative able to replace the dollar as the worlds No.1 currency. Sure, the U.S. budget deficit is expanding, the governments debt is increasing, and Wall Street is still【 C4】 _ itself. But the dollar remains the prettiest of a flock of ugly ducklings. Is any other major indust
19、rialized economy【 C5】 _ better off than the U.S.? Not really. Just about the【 C6】 _ developed world is suffering with the same problems. Thats why when investors get nervous, they still rush to the good old dollar. The dollar wins because no one else is really in the game. The euro has been exposed
20、as a【 C7】 _ . Only a few months ago, economists truly believed the euro could【 C8】 _ the dollar as the top reserve currency. Now experts are questioning if the euro has a future at all. The Greek debt crisis has【 C9】_ that the euro is only as strong as its weakest link. And after the euro, where do
21、global investors turn? The yen? Japans economy, with higher government debt and crushing deflation (通货紧缩 ), has even deeper structural problems than Americas. Maybe over the next 20 or 30 years, the dollar will slowly lose the dominant status it Holds today. That process, 【 C10】 _, could well be dri
22、ven by the appearance of new rivals. A) absolute E) concise I) recovery M) measures B) fraud F) revealed J) rival N) partially C) relieving G) defy K) slump O) repairing D) however H) entire L) particularly 27 【 C1】 28 【 C2】 29 【 C3】 30 【 C4】 31 【 C5】 32 【 C6】 33 【 C7】 34 【 C8】 35 【 C9】 36 【 C10】 Se
23、ction B 36 States Experiment with Out-of-Classroom Learning A At the end of August, most of Ohios teenagers will shake off their summertime blues, dust off their book bags, and head back to school. But others might be heading to an internship at a local newspaper or hitting the books for independent
24、 study. Some might even stay planted in front of the computer screen. B Thats thanks to the states new credit flexibility program, which Ohio is launching for the upcoming academic year. The plan puts Ohio on the front lines of a transition away from a century-old pattern of equating classroom time
25、with learning. But while theres a broad consensus that that measure, the Carnegie Unit, is due for replacement, no such unanimity (全体一致 ) exists about the design and prospects for plans like Ohios. While most stakeholders agree that its theoretically preferable to give students the chance to persona
26、lize their education, it remains unclear how effective the alternatives are, how best to assess them, and whether todays teachers are equipped to administer them. C “Certainly the Carnegie Unit needs undermining,“ says Chester E. Finn Jr., president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a Washington-b
27、ased education think tank that also runs charter schools in Ohio. “Its far better to have a competency-based system in which some kind of an objective measure of whether you know anything or have learned anything is better. But by what standard will Ohio know thats been met?“ D The Ohios program wil
28、l be among the most sweeping, but nearly half of the states now offer similar alternatives although in many cases thats nothing more than allowing students to test out of classes by demonstrating proficiency. A smaller but growing number of states, from Florida to New Jersey to Kentucky, have begun
29、allowing students to earn credit through internships, independent studies, and the like. Its a logical extension of the realization that simply being in a seat from bell to bell doesnt guarantee intellectual development. Students and their parents-are at least theoretically attracted to the idea of
30、studying what they want, at the pace they want. E Teachers are on board, too. “It really will allow more meaningful experiences for students,“ says Sue Taylor, president of the Ohio Federation of Teachers, a teachers union that participated in designing the program. “Any time a student is able to ta
31、ke the lead or take some charge of some aspect, that student is going to be more motivated and learn something at a deeper level.“ The motivation will extend to educators, she says: many teachers complain that the controversial No Child Left Behind law forced them to “teach to tests,“ preparing stud
32、ents to pass inflexible multiple-choice assessments, but the new rules should make room for more creativity. F Of course, creativity cant preclude quality. “The concern is that the advocates of personalization dont necessarily advocate between good personalization and bad personalization,“ says Rick
33、 Hess, director of education policy studies at the conservative American Enterprise Institute. “A lot of these internships end up being time wasters, being silly, being trivial.“ While individual schools have found success with flexible systems, its unclear how they will work when scaled up to apply
34、 to entire districts or states. Many states with provisions for internships and independent-study programs are “local control“ states, meaning that while the states Department of Education may allow high schools to give students options, the decision about what qualifies as a valid educational exper
35、ience is left to local authorities. The bar could be set differently from city to city, school to school, or even teacher to teacher. Ohio, for example, hasnt offered solid guidelines to districts, although a spokesman says the state will collect data each year on how many students participated and
36、what program they chose in order to “inform Credit Flex statewide going forward.“ It wont conduct a formal audit (审计 ), though. G Starting alternatives wont be easy in a difficult fiscal (财政的 ) environment. With states across the country desperately broke, even basic public services like schools and
37、 police have been put on the chopping block. Hawaii, for instance, cut some school weeks to four days, giving students 17 Fridays off, in the last school year; the plan was massively unpopular. Even though Congress held a special session this week to pass a bill giving states $10 billion to keep tea
38、chers on the job, school districts are looking at lean times for years to come. The solution for superintendents and school boards will be to find ways to cut costs without slashing school days. H Floridas Credit Acceleration Program which expands previous options for accelerated graduation was pass
39、ed this year with the primary goal of allowing students who are ready to move to tougher courses to do so. But its also a handy way to save money, says Mary Jane Tappen, the states deputy chancellor of curriculum, instruction, and student services. Fewer students in desks mean cost savings. Virtual
40、learning which an ever-larger number of states allow as an alternative to learning in bricks-and-mortar schools provides even greater economies of scale. The Florida Virtual School, an industry leader, has seen continuously increasing enrollment for both in-state and out-of-state students. Its Globa
41、l School the division that offers virtual classes to students outside of Florida on a fee model does almost all of its business with districts and states rather than on an individual student basis, says Andy Ross, the schools chief sales and marketing officer. Its helped to subsidize the taxpayer-su
42、pported in-state division of the Virtual School as well, covering its own costs and contributing some $2.5 million per year for research and development of software and teaching methods. I While educators say blends of traditional and virtual learning are ideal, all-virtual classes could create an o
43、pening for strapped states to save money by slashing the ranks of teachers they employ in traditional classrooms. “If the same virtual lesson recorded in Seattle can educate 8,000 kids in Ohio, how many teachers might not be needed that Ohio has historically employed?“ Finn asks. J Taylor, of the te
44、achers union, is concerned about budget cuts with the coming changes in Ohio. “There may be a few districts that are financially strapped in this climate who may see credit flexibility as a chance to see budget slashing, but if they do, obviously its going to be done at the cost of effective student
45、 learning,“ she warns. On the contrary, she thinks districts should hire more teachers, with some taking on more supervisory and advisory roles in overseeing credit-flexibility experiences. “If a teacher has 125 students in a day, its not going to be feasible for him to help to design and work with
46、each and every student,“ she says. K Of course, this may be irrelevant. In launching its plan, the Ohio Department of Education said a major reason for allowing districts to develop flexibility plans was that while many states provide flexibility, not many districts take advantage of it. Data collec
47、tion nationwide is hit or miss, so its tough to tell how many students use existing programs. Meanwhile, although anecdotal (轶事的 ) evidence suggests parent and student interest in the new alternatives, no one is offering predictions about how many Ohio students might sign up for Credit Flex. If the
48、nationwide example holds, the vast majority of students will decide that bricks-and-mortar schools are still the best way to get their mortarboards. 37 Its theoretically helpful to let students personalize their education. 38 Some states have allowed students to earn credit through internships. 39 O
49、ffering different ways of learning in schools wont be easy in a difficult fiscal environment. 40 Educators agree that the ideal way to teach is to combine traditional and virtual learning. 41 After the summer vacation, some Ohio students will join an internship at a local newspaper. 42 Students can be more motivated and more effective in learning if they take the lead of some aspect. 43 All-virtual classes could help states to save money by drastically redu
