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1 全国大学英语六级模拟冲刺试卷全国大学英语六级模拟冲刺试卷 COLLEGE ENGLISH TEST Band Six Part I Writing 30 minutes Directions For this part you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay You should start your essay with a brief description of the picture and then express your views on the importance of doing small things before undertaking something big QQ374289236 2 Part Listening Comprehension 30 minutes Section A Directions In this section you will hear two long conversations At the end of each conversation you will hear four questions Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once After you hear a question you must choose the best answer from 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 Questions 1 to 4 are based on the news report you have just heard 1 A Watch a film at home B Go on a picnic trip C Take a cycling trip D Visit the museum in the city 2 A Piece of cake B With medium difficulty C Challenging in some places D It requires courage 3 A A car B An umbrella C A boat D A helmet 4 A 117 B 267 C 75 D 214 Questions 5 to 8 are based on the news report you have just heard 5 A Next month B Later today C Tomorrow D On Monday 6 A The men did better at work B Both the men and the women got the same result C The women were better at teamwork D Not mentioned in the conversation 7 A A small size sample B A right size sample C A big size sample D A relative small sample 8 A Observe one of the classes B Assess their experiment QQ374289236 3 C Make an appointment to see one of the science professors D Go meet their supervisor Section B Directions In this section you will hear two passages At the end of each passage you will hear three or four questions Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once After you hear a question you must choose the best answer from 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 Questions 9 to 12 are based on the passage you have just heard 9 A They will be much bigger B They will be much lighter C They will become much faster D They will be much safer 10 A It will worsen climate change B It could revolutionize the way we generate power C It will be more accessible to ordinary people D It will allow us to better explore the universe 11 A Tiny computers that works even faster will become reality B Computers will need few power C Computers will be increasingly affordable D The industry will vanish due to the rise of smartphones 12 A It allows us to rebuild the ozone layer B It allows us to some contaminants from the water more effectively C It could help lessen the impact of global warming on our planet D It could help with the clean up of environmental disasters Questions 13 to 15 are based on the passage you have just heard 13 A It is located in beautiful and peaceful countryside B There was a tremendous need for metals in the early days C It is over 23 miles away from the sea QQ374289236 4 D It is the highest navigable point of the Avon 14 A About 900 years ago B In the twentieth century C During the Industrial Revolution D Approximately 500 years ago 15 A It declined and a large number of workers had to leave B It was hit by a violent earthquake that killed and wounded thousands of people C It transformed into a nature reserve D It kept booming throughout the century with the help of technological advances Section C Directions In this section you will hear three recordings of lectures or talks followed by three or four questions The recordings will be spoken only once After you hear a question you must choose the best answer from 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 Questions 16 to 18 are based on the recording you have just heard 16 A A study of acrobatics B A study of urban environments C A study of sound D A study of noises 17 A They can t capture the complex way that sound varies over time B There s quite a lot going on that these maps don t show C There is no database on these kinds of information D These noises aren t that significant in summer 18 A It makes city dwellers unable to concentrate on their work B It makes city dwellers suffer from interrupted sleep C It leads to lower salary D It helps people to sleep longer Questions 19 to 22 are based on the recording you have just heard QQ374289236 5 19 A Make full use of the role of the soil B Pay more attention to the impact of climate change C Invest more in technological innovations D More laws and regulations should be enacted 20 A The majority of it in the atmosphere B Less than 5 of it in the atmosphere C 13 per cent of it in the atmosphere D Approximately half of of it in the atmosphere 21 A It becomes dry and faces erosion B It becomes fertile C It retains some water D It turns white 22 A All vegetation is removed B It drains the natural topsoil C Cows fart which emit methane into the atmosphere D Cows body temperature rises when they graze Questions 23 to 25 are based on the recording you have just heard 23 A They attract a lot of attention from all over the world B They have relatively high temperature at the surface C They are significant for environmental conservation D They have a large variety of marine species 24 A Sufficient oxygen B Absence of large predators C It was cool at greater depths D Over fishing 25 A Plankton B Mammals C Aquatic plants D Turtles Part Reading Comprehension Reading in Depth 40 minutes Section A QQ374289236 6 Directions 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 bank 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 than once Questions 26 to 35 are based on the following passage A department store s the land upon which the building is located the labor of the employees 26 in the form of building equipment and merchandise and the management skills of the store managers On a farm the operation system is the transformation that occurs when a farmer s 27 land equipment labor etc are converted into such outputs as corn wheat or milk The exact form of the conversion process 28 from industry to industry but it is an 29 phenomenon that exists in every industry Economists refer to this 30 of resources into goods and services as the production function For all operation systems the general goal is to create some kind of value added outputs that are worth more to consumers than just the sum of the inputs To the consumers the resulting products 31 utility due to the form the time or the place of their availability from the conversion process However the process is subject to random changes Unplanned or uncontrollable influences may cause the actual output to differ from planned output Random fluctuations can arise from external disruption fire floods or lightning for example or from 32 problems inherent in the conversion process Inherent variability of equipment material imperfections and human errors all affect output quality 33 In fact random variations are the rule rather than the exception in production processes therefore 34 variation becomes a major management task The function of the feedback is to provide 35 linkages Without some feedback of information cannot control operations because they don t know the results of their directions A offer H transformation B capital I beautifully C medium J economic D difficult K reducing E varies L internal F differently M inputs G proposal N afford QQ374289236 7 O information Section B Directions In this section you will 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 Each paragraph is marked with a letter Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 Google s Plan for World s Biggest Online Library Philanthropy or Act of Piracy A In recent years teams of workers dispatched by Google have been working hard to make digital copies of books So far Google has scanned more than 10 million titles from libraries in America and Europe including half a million volumes held by the Bodleian in Oxford The exact method it uses is unclear the company does not allow outsiders to observe the process B Why is Google undertaking such a venture Why is it even interested in all those out of print library books most of which have been gathering dust on forgotten shelves for decades The company claims its motives are essentially public spirited Its overall mission after all is to organise the world s information so it would be odd if that information did not include books C The company likes to present itself as having lofty aspirations This really isn t about making money We are doing this for the good of society As Santiago de la Mora head of Google Books for Europe puts it By making it possible to search the millions of books that exist today we hope to expand the frontiers of human knowledge D Dan Clancy the chief architect of Google Books does seem genuine in his conviction that this is primarily a philanthropic exercise Google s core business is search and find so obviously what helps improve Google s search engine is good for Google he says But we have never built a spreadsheet outlining the financial benefits of this and I have never had to justify the amount I am spending to the company s founders QQ374289236 8 E It is easy talking to Clancy and his colleagues to be swept along by their missionary passion But Google s book scanning project is proving controversial Several opponents have recently emerged ranging from rival tech giants such as Microsoft and Amazon to small bodies representing authors and publishers across the world In broad terms these opponents have leveled two sets of criticisms at Google F First they have questioned whether the primary responsibility for digitally archiving the world s books should be allowed to fall to a commercial company In a recent essay in the New York Review of Books Robert Darnton the head of Harvard University s library argued that because such books are a common resource the possession of us all only public not for profit bodies should be given the power to control them G The second related criticism is that Google s scanning of books is actually illegal This allegation has led to Google becoming mired in a legal battle whose scope and complexity makes the Jarndyce and Jarndyce case in Charles Dickens Bleak House look straightforward H At its centre however is one simple issue that of copyright The inconvenient fact about most books to which Google has arguably paid insufficient attention is that they are protected by copyright Copyright laws differ from country to country but in general protection extends for the duration of an author s life and for a substantial period afterwards thus allowing the author s heirs to benefit In Britain and America this post death period is 70 years This means of course that almost all of the books published in the 20th century are still under copyright and the last century saw more books published than in all previous centuries combined Of the roughly 40 million books in US libraries for example an estimated 32 million are in copyright Of these some 27 million are out of print I Outside the US Google has made sure only to scan books that are out of copyright and thus in the public domain works such as the Bodleian s first edition of Middlemarch which anyone can read for free on Google Books Search J But within the US the company has scanned both in copyright and out of copyright works Inits defence Google points out that it displays only small segments of books that are in copyright arguing that such displays are fair use But critics allege that by making electronic copies of these books without first seeking the permission of copyright holders Google has committed piracy QQ374289236 9 K The key principle of copyright law has always been that works can be copied only once authors have expressly given their permission says Piers Blofeld of the Sheil Land literary agency in London Google has reversed this it has simply copied all these works without bothering toask L In 2005 the Authors Guild of America together with a group of US publishers launched a class action suit against Google that after more than two years of negotiation ended with an announcement last October that Google and the claimants had reached an out of court settlement The full details are complicated the text alone runs to 385 pages and trying to summarise it is no easy task Part of the problem is that it is basically incomprehensible says Blofeld one of the settlement s most vocal British critics M Broadly the deal provides a mechanism for Google to compensate authors and publishers whose rights it has breached including giving them a share of any future revenue it generates from their works In exchange for this the rights holders agree not to sue Google in future N This settlement hands Google the power but only with the agreement of individual rights holders to exploit its database of out of print books It can include them in subscription deals sold to libraries or sell them individually under a consumer licence It is these commercial provisions that are proving the settlement s most controversial aspect O Critics point out that by giving Google the right to commercially exploit its database the settlement paves the way for a subtle shift in the company s role from provider of information to seller Google s business model has always been to provide information for free and sell advertising on the basis of the traffic this generates points out James Grimmelmann associate professor at New York Law School Now he says because of the settlement s provisions Google could become a significant force in bookselling P Interest in this aspect of the settlement has focused on orphan works where there is no known copyright holder these make up an estimated 5 10 of the books Google has scanned Under the settlement when no rights holders come forward and register their interest in a work commercial control automatically reverts to Google Google will be able to display up to 20 of orphan works for free include them in its subscription deals to libraries and sell them to individual buyers under the consumer license Q It is by no means certain that the settlement will be enacted it is the subject of a fairness hearing in the US QQ374289236 10 courts But if it is enacted Google will in effect be off the hook as far as copyright violations in the US are concerned Many people are seriously concerned by this and the company is likely to face challenges in other courts around the world R No one knows the precise use Google will make of the intellectual property it has gained by scanning the world s library books and the truth as Gleick an American science writer and member of the Authors Guild points out is that the company probably doesn t even know itself But what is certain is that in some way or other Google s entrance into digital bookselling will have a significant impact on the book world in the years to come 36 Opponents of Google Books believe that digitally archiving the world s books should be controlled by non profit organizations 37 Google claims its plan for the world s biggest online library is to serve the interest of the general public 38 According to Santiago de la Mora Google s book scanning project will broaden humanity s intellectual horizons 39 Google has involved itself in a legal battle as it ignored the copyright of the books it scanned 40 While providing information for free Google makes money by selling advertising 41 Google defends its scanning in copyright books by saying that it displays only a small part of their content 42 Books whose copyright holders are not known are called orphan works 43 The class action suit against Google was settled after more than two years of negotiation 44 The commercial provisions of the settlement remained controversial after the class action suit ended 45 Google s entrance into digital bookselling will tremendously have an impact on the book world in the future Section C Directions There are 2 passages in this section Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements For each of them there are four choices marked A and You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre QQ374289236 11 Passage One Questions 46 to 50 are based on the following passage German Chancellor 首相 Otto Von Bismarck may be most famous for his military and diplomatic talent but his legacy 遗产 includes many of today s social insurance programs During the middle of the 19th century Germany along with other European nations experienced an unprecedented rash of workplace deaths and accidents as a result of growing industrialization Motivated in part by Christian compassion 怜悯 for the helpless as well as a practical political impulse to undercut the support of the socialist labor movement Chancellor Bismarck created the world s first workers compensation law in 1884 By 1908 the United States was the only industrial nation in the world that lacked workers compensation insurance America s injured workers could sue for damages in a court of law but they still faced a number of tough legal barriers For example employees had to prove that their injuries directly resulted from employer negligence and that they themselves were ignorant about potential hazards in the workplace The 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