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1、 2013年12月大学英语六级考试真题（第1套）Part I Writing (30 minutes)（请于正式开考后半小时 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
2、.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) H
3、e is not fit to study science.C) He is worried about the test.D) He is going to drop the physics course6. A) Pay for part of the picnic food. C) Buy something special for Gary.B) Invite Garys family to dinner. D) Take some food to the picnic.7. A) Bus drivers working conditions. C)Public transportat
4、ion.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 privat
5、e 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
6、.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
7、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
8、 his inventions. D) To have a three-week holiday. Section BDirections:In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will he spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer fro
9、m the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。 Passage OneQuestions 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 a
10、ttraction.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 childre
11、n.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 b
12、y 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)
13、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 ThreeQuestions 23 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.23. A) It in an
14、uncommon infectious disease.B) It destroys the patients 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) Aggr
15、essive. C) Sophisticated.B) Adventurous. D) Self-centered. Section CDirections:In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read fort the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill
16、in the blanks with the exact words youhave just heard. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you shouldcheck what you have written.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。Its difficult to estimate the number of youngsters involved in home schooling, where childrenare not sent to school and receive their f
17、ormal 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 stand
18、ards, 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 its less expensive and far more (28)_ thanmass public education. Moreover, they cite several advantages: alleviation of school ov
19、ercrowding, 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
20、. 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 educatio
21、nal 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
22、 notion that home schooling is in any way (35) _ more highly structured classroom education.Part III Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)Section ADirections:In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word ba
23、nk following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more th
24、an once.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 should acknowledge high performance so that the em
25、ployee will continue to perform well in the future.Employees who receive unfavorable evaluations must also be given attention. Supervisors must the reasons for poor performance. Some reasons, such as a family illness, may have a may not be temporary. When supervisors give employees an unfavorable ev
26、aluation, they must 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 and ensure that the deficiencies are corrected.If the employees were already aware of their deficiencies before the eval
27、uation period, however, they may be unable or unwilling to correct them. This situation is more serious, and the irms guidelines and may include reassigning the employees to new jobs, them temporarily, or firing them. A supervisors action toward a poorly performing worker can their productivity as w
28、ell.注意：此部分题请在答题卡2上作答。 Section BDirections:In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Each statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from which the information is derived. You may choose a paragraph more than once.
29、Each paragraph is marked with a letter. Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.The College Essay: Why Those 500 Words Drive Us CrazyA) Meg is a lawyer-mom in suburban Washington, D.C., where lawyer-moms are thick on theground. Her son Doug is one of several hundre
30、d 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 coll
31、ege 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 sons delay. “But really, my son is a huge procrastinator (拖延者). The essay is the hardest thing to do, so hes put it off the longest.” Friends and ot
32、her 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 dayssay, two years ago, when the last of my children suffered theordeal (折磨)a high-school student applying to college could procrastinate all
33、the way to New Years 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
34、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 panicremains what it has always been. And its not the application itself. A college application is a relatively straightforward questionnaire a
35、sking for the basics: name, address, family history employment history. It would all be innocent enough20 minutes of busy workexcept it comes attached to a personal essay.D) “There are good reasons it causes such anxiety,” says Lisa Sohmer, director of collegecounseling at the Garden School in Jacks
36、on Heights, N.Y. “Its 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 its open-ended. So the temptation is to write and rewrite and rewrite.” Or stall and
37、stall and stall.E) The application essay, along with its mythical importance, is a recent invention. In the1930s,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
38、 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 andfour-year institutions. Even apart from the increased competition, the kids enter a
39、 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 nations most selective.G) Those schools usually require essays o
40、f their own, but the longest essay, 500 words maximum,is generally attached to the Common Application. Students choose one of six questions. Applicants are asked to describe an ethical dilemma theyve faced and its impact on them, or discuss a public issue of special concern to them, or tell of a fic
41、tional character or creative work that has profoundly influenced them. Another question invites them to write about the importance (to them, again) of diversitya word that has assumed magic power in American higher education. The most popular option: write on a topic of your choice.H) “Boys in parti
42、cular look at the other questions and say, Oh, thats too much work,” says JohnBoshoven, a counselor in the Ann Arbor, Mich., public schools. “They think if they do a topic of their choice, “Ill just go get that history paper I did last year on the Roman Empire and turn it into a first-person applica
43、tion essay! And they end up producing something utterly ridiculous.”I) Talking to admissions professionals like Boshoven, you realize that the list of “donts” in essaywriting is much longer than the “dos.”“No book reports, no history papers, no character studies,”says Sohmer.J) “It drives you crazy,
44、 how easily kids slip into clichs(老生常谈),”says Boshoven. “They dontrealize how typical their experiences arc. I scored the winning goal in soccer against our arch-rival.My grandfather served in World War II, and I hope to be just like him someday. That may mean a lot to that particular kid. But in th
45、e world of the application essay, its nothing. Youll lose the reader in the first paragraph.”K) “The greatest strength you bring to this essay,” says the College Boards how-to book, “is 17years or so of familiarity with the topic: YOU. The form and style are very familiar, and best of all, you are t
46、he world-class expert on the subject of YOU . It has been the subject of your close scrutiny every morning since you were tall enough to see into the bathroom mirror.” Thekey word in the Common Application prompts is “you.”L) The college admission essay contains the grandest American themesstatus an
47、xiety, parentalpiety (孝顺), intellectual standardsand so it is only a matter of time before it becomes infected by the countrys culture of excessive concern with self-esteem. Even if the question isostensibly (表面上) about something outside the self (describe a fictional character or solve a problem of
48、 geopolitics), the essay invariably returns to the favorite topic: what is its impact on YOU?M)“For all the anxiety the essay causes,” says Bill McClintick of Mercersburg Academy inPennsylvania, “its a very small piece of the puzzle. I was in college admissions for 10 years. I saw kids and parents beat themselves up over this. And at the vast majority of places, i
