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2013年12月英语六级真题及答案三套完整版.doc
2013年12月英语六级真题及答案三套完整版
2013年12月大学英语六级考试真题（第1套）
Part I Writing(30 minutes)
Part IIListening Comprehension(30 minutes)
Part IIIReading Comprehension (40 minutes)
Part IVTranslation(30 minutes)
Part III Reading Comprehension(40 minutes)
2013 年 12 月英语六级真题及答案三套完整版
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内完成该部分，之后将进行听力考试）
Directions:Forthispart,youareallowed30minutestowriteanessayonhappiness
byreferringtothesaying“Happinessisnottheabsenceofproblems,buttheability
todealwiththem.”Youcanciteexamplestoillustrateyourpointandthenexplain
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.
Part II Listening Comprehension (30 minutes)
Section A
Directions:In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long
conversations.Attheendofeachconversation,oneormorequestionswillbeasked
about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only
once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read
thefourchoicesmarkedA),B),C)andD),anddecidewhichisthebestanswer.Then
markthecorrespondingletteronAnswerSheet1withasinglelinethroughthecentre.
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.
own.
B) Add 300 dollars to his budget.
3. A) In case some problem should occur.
on.
C) Travel overseas on his
D) Join a package tour to Mexico.
C) To avoid more work later
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.
Gary.
C) Buy something special for
B) Invite Gary’s family to dinner.
D) Take some food to the
picnic.
7. A) Bus drivers’ working conditions.
B) A labor dispute at a bus company.
8. A) The bank statement.
B) Their sales overseas.
C)Public transportation.
D) A corporate takeover.
C) The payment for an order.
D) The check just deposited.
B) A private secretary.
Questions 9 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
C) A shop assistant.
9. A) A hotel receptionist.
D) A sales manager.
C) Appearance.
D) Manners.
C) Report the matter to their
B) Intelligence.
10. A) Voice.
11. A) Arrange one more interview.
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.
Mathematics.
got
C)
He
a
degree
in
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.
years.
C) To spend his remaining
B) To patent his inventions.
D) To have a three-week holiday.
Section B
Directions:Inthissection,youwillhear3shortpassages.Attheendofeachpassage,
youwillhearsomequestions.Boththepassageandthequestionswillhespokenonly
once.Afteryouhearaquestion,youmustchoosethebestanswerfromthefourchoices
markedA),B),C)andD).ThenmarkthecorrespondingletteronAnswerSheet1with
a single line through the centre.
注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。
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.
B) She is a tourist guide.
C) She is a domestic servant.
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.
life.
B) Hurry up and live life.
C) Write a book about her
D) Exercise more and work
harder.
25. A) Aggressive.
B) Adventurous.
Section C
C) Sophisticated.
D) Self-centered.
Directions:Inthissection,youwillhearapassagethreetimes.Whenthepassage
isreadfortthefirsttime,youshouldlistencarefullyforitsgeneralidea.When
thepassageisreadforthesecondtime,youarerequiredtofillintheblankswith
theexactwordsyouhavejustheard.Finally,whenthepassageisreadforthethird
time, you shouldcheck what you have written.
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.
Part III
Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)
Section A
Directions:In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required
toselectonewordforeachblankfromalistofchoicesgiveninawordbankfollowing
the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each
choiceinthebankisidentifiedbyaletter.Pleasemarkthecorrespondingletter
foreachitemonAnswerSheet2withasinglelinethroughthecentre.Youmaynot
use any of the words in the bank more than 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 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) additional
B) affect
C) aptly
D) assimilate
H) circulation
F) closely
G) consistent
H) enthusiasm
I) identify
J) impact
K) penalty
L) reward
M) simplifying
N) suspending
O) vulnerable
Section B
Directions:In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements
attachedtoit.Eachstatementcontainsinformationgiveninoneoftheparagraphs.
Identify the paragraph from which the information is derived. You may choose a
paragraph more than once. 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 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 require essays of 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 they’ve
faced and its impact on them, or discuss a public issue of special concern to
them, or tell of a fictional character or creative work that has profoundly
influenced them. Another question invites them to write about the importance (to
them, again) of diversity―a word that has assumed magic power in American higher
education. The most popular option: write on a topic of your choice.
H) “Boys in particular look at the other questions and say, ‘Oh, that’s too much
work,’” says John Boshoven, a counselor in the Ann Arbor, Mich., public schools.
“They think if they do a topic of their choice, “I’ll just go get that history
paper I did last year on the Roman Empire and turn it into a first-person
application essay!’ And they end up producing something utterly ridiculous.”
I) Talking to admissions professionals like Boshoven, you realize that the list of
“don’ts” in essay writing is much longer than the “dos.”“No book reports,
no history papers, no character studies,”says Sohmer.
J) “It drives you crazy, how easily kids slip into clichés( 老 生 常 谈 ),”says
Boshoven. “They don’t realize 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 the world of the application essay, it’s nothing.
You’ll lose the reader in the first paragraph.”
K) “The greatest strength you bring to this essay,” says the College Board’s
how-to book, “is 17 years or so of familiarity with the topic: YOU. The form
and style are very familiar, and best of all, you are the 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 themes―status anxiety,
parental piety(孝顺), intellectual standards—and so it is only a matter of time
before it becomes infected by the country’s 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 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 in Pennsylvania, “it’s 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, it is simply not a big variable in the
college’s decision-making process.”
N) Many admissions officers say they spend less than a couple of minutes on each
application, including the essay. According to a recent survey of admissions
officers, only one in four private colleges say the essay is of “considerable
importance” in judging an application. Among public colleges and universities,
the number drops to roughly one in 10. By contrast, 86 percent place
“considerable importance” on an applicant’s grades, 70 percent on “strength
of curriculum.”
O) Still, at the most selective schools, where thousands of candidates may submit
identically high grades and test scores, a marginal item like the essay may serve
as a tie-breaker between two equally qualified candidates. The thought is
certainly enough to keep the pot boiling under parents like Meg, the lawyer-mom,
as she tries to help her son choose an essay topic. For a moment the other day,
she thought she might have hit on a good one. “His father’s from France,” she
says. “I said maybe you could write about that, as something that makes you
different. You know: half French, half American. I said, ‘You could write about
your identity issues.’ He said, ‘I don’t have any identity issues!’ And he’s
right. He’s a well-adjusted, normal kid. But that doesn’t make for a good essay,
does it?”
注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。
46. Today many universities require their applicants to write an essay of up to five
hundred words.
47. One recent change in college admissions is that selective colleges and
universities have movedthe traditional deadline to earlier dates.
48. Applicants and their parents are said to believe that the personal essay can
sway the admissions committee.
49. Applicants are usually better off if they can write an essay that distinguishes
them from the rest.
50. Not only is the competition getting more intense, the application process today
is also totally different from what baby boomers knew.
51. In writing about their own experiences many applicants slip into clichés, thus
failing to engage the reader.
52. According to a recent survey, most public colleges and universities consider
an applicant’s grades highly important.
53. Although the application essay causes lots of anxiety, it does not play so
important a role in the college’sdecision-making process.
54. The question you aresupposed to write about may seem outside the self, but the
theme of the essay should center around its impact on you.
55. In the old days, applicants only had to submit a sample of their school papers
to show their writing ability.
Section C
Directions:Thereare2passagesinthissection.Eachpassageisfollowedbysome
questionsorunfinishedstatements.Foreachofthemtherearefourchoicesmarked
A),B),C)andD).Youshoulddecideonthebestchoiceandmarkthecorresponding
letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.
Passage One
Questions 56 to 60 are based on the following passage.
Among the government’s most interesting reports is one that estimates what
parents spend on their children. Not surprisingly, the costs are steep. For a
middle-class, husband-and-wife family (average pretax income in 2009: $76,250),
spending per child is about $12,000 a year. With inflation the family’s spending
on a child will total $286,050 by age 17.
The dry statistics ought to inform the ongoing deficit debate, because a budget
is not just a catalog of programs and taxes. It reflects a society’s priorities
and values. Our society does not— despite rhetoric(说辞) to the contrary—put much
value on raising children. Present budget policies tax parents heavily to support
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