1、大学英语六级（ 2013年 12月考试改革适用）模拟试卷 45及答案与解析 一、 Part I Writing 1 For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay commenting on the remark “Life isnt about waiting for the storm to pass: its about learning to dance in the rain. “ You can cite examples to illustrate your point. You should write a
2、t least 150 words but no more than 200 words. Section A （ A） Sometimes polls dont count. （ B） The election in 2000 was not fair. （ C） Dewey defeated Truman in the election. （ D） All the votes should be counted carefully. （ A） The woman found the mailbox empty. （ B） The man has just sent out his appl
3、ication. （ C） The man is waiting for some important mail. （ D） The woman will write a postcard to her daughter. （ A） Stay at home and review the lesson. （ B） Stay at home and have a good rest. （ C） Meet a friend. （ D） Go to the concert. （ A） The woman wanted to enter the mans apartment. （ B） The man
4、 forgot where he hid it. （ C） The man forgot it. （ D） The man lost it. （ A） The graduate students could understand the lecture. （ B） The undergraduate students could understand the lecture. （ C） Both the undergraduate and the graduate students understand the lecture. （ D） Neither the undergraduate n
5、or the graduate students could understand the lecture. （ A） Most neighbours are as noisy as the woman. （ B） Hed like to know why the woman is angry. （ C） The woman is too polite to her neighbours. （ D） Talking to the neighbours courteously might be the best solution. （ A） Take the job offer. （ B） Tr
6、y another job. （ C） Bargain a little bit. （ D） Concentrate on her studies. （ A） Shell help look for the mans wallet. （ B） Shed like to pay for the mans lunch. （ C） She doesnt have much money to lend the man. （ D） Shell help the man with his physics project. （ A） How to deal with hardships in life. （
7、 B） Whether it is right for students to live off campus. （ C） How to create nice surroundings for study. （ D） The importance of a good study environment. （ A） They can have a better environment for study and rest. （ B） They can have more freedom without supervision. （ C） They can have more chances t
8、o learn to be independent. （ D） They can have classes without paying for tuition. （ A） Change the poor conditions in university accommodation. （ B） Catch up with the quickening changes in the society. （ C） Live off campus and be ready to meet the challenge in life. （ D） Adapt themselves to hardships
9、 at the university. （ A） Many universities have common problems. （ B） Most college students cant adapt themselves to them. （ C） The conditions cant be improved in short time. （ D） The conditions can be improved soon. （ A） There was television, but not in London. （ B） There was no television anywhere
10、 in England. （ C） There was television, but only in the London area. （ D） There was television somewhere in Britain. （ A） It is a private company. （ B） It is controlled by the government. （ C） It cannot be used for government propaganda. （ D） It can be used by private individuals and firms. （ A） Bec
11、ause they have to pay for advertisements. （ B） Because they think TVs commercials are insults to their intelligence. （ C） Because it gets all its money from advertisements. （ D） Because there werent any ads on TV. Section B （ A） To attract people to the camps. （ B） To explain the aims of the camps.
12、（ C） To talk about camping experiences. （ D） To describe the programmes of the camps. （ A） Campers learn to cook food for themselves. （ B） Horses play a central role in the activities. （ C） Horse lessons are offered all the year round. （ D） Campers are required to wear camp T-shirts. （ A） To help pe
13、ople understand horses better. （ B） To help people enjoy a family atmosphere. （ C） To help people have fun above other things. （ D） To help people achieve an educational purpose. （ A） Horse riders. （ B） Teenage girls. （ C） Canadian parents. （ D） International travellers. （ A） His mums support. （ B）
14、His wifes suggestion. （ C） His terrible experience in the hotel. （ D） His previous business success of various levels. （ A） Careful, helpful and beautiful. （ B） Strict, sensitive and supportive. （ C） Modest, helpful and hard-working. （ D） Loving, supportive and strong-willed. （ A） Self-confidence, h
15、ard work, higher education and a poor family. （ B） Mums encouragement, clear goals, self-confidence and hard work. （ C） Clear goals, moms encouragement, a poor family and higher education. （ D） Mums encouragement, a poor family, higher education and opportunities. （ A） The opening up of new markets.
16、 （ B） The printing of high-quality copies. （ C） The increased use of the Internet. （ D） The rapid development of small businesses. （ A） To plant more fast growing trees. （ B） To find new materials for making paper. （ C） To develop new printers using recycled paper. （ D） To encourage printing more qu
17、ality documents. （ A） They see a growing market for printers. （ B） Small companies need more hard copies. （ C） People are concerned about the environment. （ D） Printers in many offices are working overtime. Section C 26 Advertisement can be thought of as “the means of making known in order to buy or
18、 sell goods or services“. Advertisement aims to increase peoples awareness and【 B1】_interest. It tries to inform and to persuade. The media are all used to spread the message. The press offers a fairly cheap method, and magazines【 B2】 _reach special sections of the market. The cinema and【 B3】 _radio
19、 are useful for local market. Television, although more expensive, can be very【 B4】 _. Public notices are fairly cheap and more【 B5】 _in their power of attraction. Other ways of increasing consumer interest are through exhibitions and trade fairs as well as direct mail advertisement. There can be no
20、【 B6】 _that the growth in advertisement is one of the most striking features of the western world in this century. Many businesses such as those handling frozen foods, liquor, tobacco and medicines have been built up【 B7】_by advertisement. We might ask whether the cost of advertisement is paid for b
21、y the producer or by the customer. Since advertisement forms part of the cost of production, which has to【 B8】_the selling price, it is clear that it is the customer who pays for advertisement. However, if large-scale advertisement leads to increased demand, production costs are reduced, and the cus
22、tomer pays less. It is difficult to measure exactly the influence of advertisement on sales. When the market is growing, advertisement helps to increase demand. When the market is【 B9】_, advertisement may prevent a bigger fall in sales than would occur without its support. What is clear is that busi
23、nesses would not pay large sums for advertisement if they【 B10】 _its value to them. 27 【 B1】 28 【 B2】 29 【 B3】 30 【 B4】 31 【 B5】 32 【 B6】 33 【 B7】 34 【 B8】 35 【 B9】 36 【 B10】 Section A 36 British scientists are breeding a new generation of rice plants that will be able to grow in soil containing sal
24、t water. Their work may enable abandoned farms to become productive once more. Tim Flowers and Tony Yeo, from Sussex Universitys School of Biological Sciences, have spent several years researching how crops, such as rice, could be made to grow in water that has become salty. The pair have recently b
25、egun a three-year programme, funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, to【 C1】 _which genes enable some plants to survive salty conditions. The aim is to breed this【 C2】 _into crops, starting with rice. It is estimated that each year more than 10m hectares of agricultural
26、 land are【 C3】 _because salt gets into the soil and stunts plants. The problem is caused by several factors. In the tropics, mangroves(红树林 )that【 C4】 _swamps and traditionally formed【 C5】 _to sea water have been cut down. In the Mediterranean, a series of【 C6】 _have caused the water table to drop, a
27、llowing sea water to seep in. In Latin America, irrigation often causes problems when water is【 C7】 _by the heat, leaving salt deposits behind. Excess salt then enters the plants and prevents them functioning【 C8】 _. Heavy concentrations of minerals in the plants stop them drawing up the water they
28、need to survive. To overcome these problems, Flowers and Yeo decided to breed rice plants that take in very little salt and store what they do absorb in cells that do not affect the plants growth. They have started to breed these characteristics into a new rice crop, but it will take about eight har
29、vests before the resulting seeds are ready to be considered for【 C9】 _use. Once the characteristics for surviving salty soil are known, Flowers and Yeo will try to breed the【 C10】 _genes into all manners of crops and plants. Land that has been abandoned to nature will then be able to bloom again, pr
30、oviding much needed food in the poorer countries of the world. A)evaporated I)create B)barriers J)capability C)normally K)establish D)economic L)ensure E)excluded M)capacity F)lost N)commercial G)droughts O)appropriate H)perfectly 37 【 C1】 38 【 C2】 39 【 C3】 40 【 C4】 41 【 C5】 42 【 C6】 43 【 C7】 44 【 C
31、8】 45 【 C9】 46 【 C10】 Section B 46 The Serious Need for Play AStuart Brown, a Texass psychiatrist, interviewed 26 convicted murderers and discovered that most of the killers shared two things in common: they were from abusive families, and they never played as kids. BBrown did not know which factor
32、was more important. But for years, he has interviewed some 6,000 people about their childhoods, and his data suggest that a lack of opportunities for unstructured play, which is critical for coping with stress and building cognitive skills such as problem solving, can keep children from growing into
33、 happy, well-adjusted adults. Research into animal behaviour confirms plays benefits and its evolutionary importance: play may provide animals(including humans)with skills that will help them survive and reproduce. CA handful of studies support Browns conviction that a play-deprived childhood disrup
34、ts normal social emotional and cognitive development in humans and animals. Brown and other psychologists worry that limiting free play in kids may result in a generation of anxious, unhappy and socially inadaptable adults. But it is never too late to start: play also promotes the continued mental a
35、nd physical well-being of adults. DBut kids play soccer and Scrabble why are experts concerned that these games and more structured activities are eating into free play? “Certainly games with rules are fun and sources of learning experiences they may foster group cohesion, for instance,“ says Anthon
36、y D. Pellegrini, an educational psychologist at the University of Minnesota. But, Pellegrini explains, “games have priori(先天 )rules set up in advance and followed. Play, on the other hand, does not have priori rules, so it affords more creative responses.“ ECreativity is key because it challenges th
37、e developing brain more than following predetermined rules does. The child initiates and creates free play. In free play, kids use their imagination and try out new activities and roles. It might involve fantasies such as pretending to be doctors or princesses or playing house or it might include mo
38、ck fighting, as when kids(primarily boys)wrestle and tumble with one another for fun, switching roles periodically. And free play is most similar to play seen in the animal kingdom suggesting that it has important evolutionary roots. FHow do these seemingly pointless activities benefit kids? Perhaps
39、 most crucially, play appears to help us develop strong social skills. Children learn to be fair and take turns they cannot always demand to be the fairy queen, or soon they have no playmates. Because kids enjoy the activity, they do not give up as easily in the face of frustration as they might on,
40、 say, a maths problem which helps them develop persistence and negotiating abilities. GKeeping things friendly requires a fair bit of communication arguably the most valuable social skill of all. Playing with peers is the most important in this regard. Studies show that children use more sophisticat
41、ed language when playing with other children than when playing with adults. HDoes play help children become socialised? Studies suggest that it does. According to a 1997 study of children living in poverty and at high risk of school failure, published by the High/Scope Educational Research Foundatio
42、n, kids who enroled in play-oriented preschools are more socially adjusted later in life than are kids who attended play-tree pre-schools where they were constantly instructed by teachers. By age 23, more than one third of kids who had attended instruction-oriented preschools had been arrested for a
43、 serious crime as compared with fewer than one tenth of the kids who had been in play-oriented preschools. And as adults, fewer than 7% of the play-oriented preschool attendees had ever been suspended from work but more than a quarter of the directly instructed kids had. IResearch suggests that play
44、 is also critical for emotional health, possibly because it helps kids work through anxiety and stress. In a 1984 study published in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, researchers assessed the anxiety levels of 74 three- and four-year-old children on their first day of preschool as indi
45、cated by their behaviour whether they pleaded, cried and begged their parents to stay and how much their palms were sweating. Based on the researchers observations, they labelled each child as either anxious or not anxious. They then randomly split the 74 kids into four groups. Half of the kids were
46、 escorted to rooms full of toys, where they played either alone or with peers for 15 minutes: the other half were told to sit at a small table either alone or with peers and listen to a teacher tell a story for 15 minutes. JAfterwards, the kids levels of distress were assessed again. The anxiety lev
47、els of the anxious kids who had played had dropped by more than twice as much as compared with the anxious kids who had listened to the story.(The kids who were not anxious to begin with stayed about the same.)Interestingly, those who played alone calmed down more than the ones who played with peers
48、. The researchers speculate that through imaginative play, which is most easily initiated alone, children build fantasies that help them cope with difficult situations. KPlay fighting also improves problem solving. According to a paper published by Pellegrini in 1989, the more elementary school boys
49、 engaged in rough-housing, the better they scored on a test of social problem solving. During the test, researchers presented kids with five pictures of a child trying to get a toy from a peer and five pictures of a child trying to avoid being scolded by his mother. The subjects were then asked to come up with as many possible solutions to each social problem while their score was based on the variety of strat
