2013年12月英语六级真题及答案详解

2013年12月大学英语六级考试真题（第1套） Directions:For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay on happiness by referring to the saying“Happiness is not the absence of problems, but the ability to deal with them.”You can cite examples to illustrate your point and then explain how you can develop your ability to deal with problems and be happy. You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words. 注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1 上作答。 1. A) The rock band needs more hours of practice.B) The rock band is going to play here for a month.C) Their hard work has resulted in a big success.D) He appreciates the woman’s help with the band. 2. A) Go on a diving tour in Europe. C) Travel overseas on his own. B) Add 300 dollars to his budget. D) Join a package tour to Mexico. 3. A) In case some problem should occur. C) To avoid more work later on. B) Something unexpected has happened. D) To make better preparations. 4. A) The woman asked for a free pass to try out the facilities. B) The man is going to renew his membership in a fitness center. C) The woman can give the man a discount if he joins the club now. D) The man can try out the facilities before he becomes a member. 5. A) He is not afraid of challenge. B) He is not fit to study science. C) He is worried about the test. D) He is going to drop the physics course 6. A) Pay for part of the picnic food. C) Buy something special for Gary. B) Invite Gary’s family to dinner. D) Take some food to the picnic. 7. A) Bus drivers’ working conditions. C)Public transportation. B) A labor dispute at a bus company. D) A corporate takeover. 8. A) The bank statement. C) The payment for an order. B) Their sales overseas. D) The check just deposited. Questions 9 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 9. A) A hotel receptionist. C) A shop assistant. B) A private secretary. D) A sales manager. 10. A) Voice. C) Appearance. B) Intelligence. D) Manners. 11. A) Arrange one more interview. C) Report the matter to their boss. B) Offer the job to David Wallace. D) Hire Barbara Jones on a trial basis. Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 12. A) He invented the refrigerator. C) He got a degree in Mathematics. B) He patented his first invention. D) He was admitted to university. 13. A) He distinguished himself in low temperature physics.B) He fell in love with Natasha Willoughby. C) He became a professor of Mathematics.D) He started to work on refrigeration. 14. A) Finding the true nature of subatomic particles.B) Their work on very high frequency radio waves. C) Laying the foundations of modem mathematics.D) Their discovery of the laws of cause and effect. 15. A) To teach at a university. C) To spend his remaining years. B) To patent his inventions. D) To have a three-week holiday. Passage One Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard. 16. A) They have fallen prey to wolves.B) They have become a tourist attraction. C) They have caused lots of damage to crops.D) They have become a headache to the community. 17. A) To celebrate their victory. C) To scare the wolves. B) To cheer up the hunters. D) To alert the deer. 18. A) They would help to spread a fatal disease.B) They would pose a threat to the children. C) They would endanger domestic animals.D) They would eventually kill off the deer. Passage Two Questions 19 to 22 are based on the passage you have just heard. 19. A) She is an interpreter. C) She is a domestic servant. B) She is a tourist guide. D) She is from the royal family. 20. A) It was used by the family to hold dinner parties.B) It is situated at the foot of a beautiful mountain. C) It was frequently visited by heads of state.D) It is furnished like one in a royal palace. 21. A) It is elaborately decorated.B) It has survived some 2,000 years. C) It is very big, with only six slim legs.D) It is shaped like an ancient Spanish boat. 22. A) They are uncomfortable to sit in for long.B) They do not match the oval table at all. C) They have lost some of their legs.D) They are interesting to look at. Passage Three Questions 23 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard. 23. A) It in an uncommon infectious disease.B) It destroys the patient’s ability to think. C) It is a disease very difficult to diagnose.D) It is the biggest crippler of young adults. 24. A) Search for the best cure. C) Write a book about her life. B) Hurry up and live life. D) Exercise more and work harder. 25. A) Aggressive. C) Sophisticated. B) Adventurous. D) Self-centered. Section C 注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。 It’s difficult to estimate the number of youngsters involved in home schooling, where childrenare not sent to school and receive their formal education from one or both parents. (26)_______ and court decisions have made it legally possible in most states for parents to educate their children at home, and each year more people take advantage of that opportunity. Some states require parents or a home tutor to meet teacher certification standards, and many require parents to completelegal forms to verify that their children are receiving (27) _______ in state-approved curricula. Supports of home education claim that it’s less expensive and far more (28)_______ thanmass public education. Moreover, they cite several advantages: alleviation of school overcrowding, strengthened family relationships, lower (29) _______ rates, the fact that students are allowed to learn at their own rate, increased (30) _______, higher standardized test scores, and reduced (31) _______ problems. Critics of the home schooling movement (32) _______ that it creates as many problems as it solves. They acknowledge that, in a few cases, home schooling offers educational opportunities superior to those found in most public schools, but few parents can provide such educational advantages. Some parents who withdraw their children from the schools (33) _______ homeschooling have an inadequate educational background and insufficient formal training to provide a satisfactory education for their children. Typically, parents have fewertechnological resources (34) _______ than do schools. However, the relatively inexpensivecomputer technology that is readily available today is causing some to challenge the notion that home schooling is in any way (35) _______ more highly structured classroom education. Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage. Some performance evaluations require supervisors to take action. Employees who receive a very favorable evaluation may deserve some type of recognition or even a promotion. If supervisors do not acknowledge such outstanding performance, employees may either lose their36 and reduce their effort or search for a new job at a firm that will37 them for high performance. Supervisors should acknowledge high performance so that the employee will continue to perform well in the future. Employees who receive unfavorable evaluations must also be given attention. Supervisors must 38 the reasons for poor performance. Some reasons, such as a family illness, may have a temporary adverse 39 on performance and can be corrected. Other reasons, such as a bad attitude, may not be temporary. When supervisors give employees an unfavorable evaluation, they must decide whether to take any 40 actions. If the employees were unaware of their own deficiencies, the unfavorable evaluation can pinpoint(指出) the deficiencies that employees must correct. In this case, the supervisor may simply need to monitor the employees 41 and ensure that the deficiencies are corrected. If the employees were already aware of their deficiencies before the evaluation period, however, they may be unable or unwilling to correct them. This situation is more serious, and the supervisor may need to take action. The action should be 42 with the firm’s guidelines and may include reassigning the employees to new jobs, 43 them temporarily, or firing them. A supervisor’s action toward a poorly performing worker can 44 the attitudes of other employees. If no 45 isimposed on an employee for poor performance, other employees may react by reducing their productivity as well. 注意：此部分题请在答题卡2上作答。 A) additionalB) affectC) aptlyD) assimilate H) circulationF) closelyG) consistentH) enthusiasm I) identifyJ) impactK) penaltyL) reward M) simplifyingN) suspendingO) vulnerable The College Essay: Why Those 500 Words Drive Us Crazy A) Meg is a lawyer-mom in suburban Washington, D.C., where lawyer-moms are thick on the ground. Her son Doug is one of several hundred thousand high-school seniors who had a painful fall. The deadline for applying to his favorite college was Nov. 1,and by early October he had yet to fill out the application. More to the point, he had yet to settle on a subject for the personal essay accompanying the application. According to college folklore, a well-turned essay has the power to seduce (诱惑) an admissions committee. “He wanted to do one thing at a time,” Meg says, explaining her son’s delay. “But really, my son is a huge procrastinator (拖延者). The essay is the hardest thing to do, so he’s put it off the longest.” Friends and other veterans of the process have warned Meg that the back and forth between editing parent and writing student can be traumatic (痛苦的). B) Back in the good old days—say, two years ago, when the last of my children suffered the ordeal (折磨)—a high-school student applying to college could procrastinate all the way to New Year’s Day of their senior year, assuming they could withstand the parental pestering (烦扰).But things change fast in the nail-biting world of college admissions.The recent trend toward early decision and early action among selective colleges and universities has pushed the traditional deadline of January up to Nov. 1 or early December for many students. C) If the time for heel-dragging has been shortened, the true source of the anxiety and panic remains what it has always been. And it’s not the application itself. A college application is a relatively straightforward questionnaire asking for the basics: name, address, family history employment history. It would all be innocent enough—20 minutes of busy work—except it comes attached to a personal essay. D) “There are good reasons it causes such anxiety,” says Lisa Sohmer, director of college counseling at the Garden School in Jackson Heights, N.Y. “It’s not just the actual writing. By noweverything else is already set. Your course load is set, your grades are set, your test scores are set. But the essay is something you can still control, and it’s open-ended. So the temptation is to write and rewrite and rewrite.” Or stall and stall and stall. E) The application essay, along with its mythical importance, is a recent invention. In the 1930s,when only one in 10 Americans had a degree from a four-year college, an admissionscommittee was content to ask for a sample of applicants’ school papers to assess their writing ability. By the 1950s, most schools required a brief personal statement of why the student had chosen to apply to one school over another. F) Today nearly 70 percent of graduating seniors go off to college, including two-year and four-year institutions. Even apart from the increased competition, the kids enter a process that has been utterly transformed from the one baby boomers knew. Nearly all application materials are submitted online, and the Common Application provides a one-size-fits form accepted by more than 400 schools, including the nation’s most selective. G) Those schools usually