大学英语六级模拟测试题model-text09(含答案解析)11196.pdf

Model Test FourPart IWriting(30 minutes)Directions:For this part,you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay on cohesion.Youressay shouldincludethe importanceof cohesion andmeasuresto be taken to enhancecohesion.Youshouldwriteat least150wordsbutnomorethan200 words.Part IIListening Comprehension(30 minutes)SectionADirections:Inthissection,you will hearthreenews reports.At theendof eachnews report,you will heartwo orthreequestions.Boththe news reportandthe questions will be spoken only once.After you heara question,youmustchoose thebestanswerfrom thefour choices marked A),B),C)andD).Thenmark thecorrespondingletteronAnswer Sheet 1withasingle linethroughthecentre.Questions 1 to 4 are based on the conversation you have just heard.1.A)Howto actatajobinterview.B)Howto runones ownbusiness.C)Howto dressduringajobinterview.D)Howto communicatewithyourboss.2.A)Whetherhe shouldboastabouthisadvantages.B)Whetherheshoulddressformally for theinterview.C)Whetherheshouldmentionhispersonalproblems.D)Whetherheshouldbe honestabouthisbadhabit.3.A)Ask somethought-provokingquestions.B)Offera firm handshake whengreetingtheinterviewer.C)Arriveontimeattheinterview.D)Dressgorgeousclothes.4.A)Because it is thebestwayto let theconversationgo smoothly.B)Because it is thebestwayto leave a good first impression.C)Because it canshowthatyouareanintelligentinterviewee.D)Because it canshowthatyou aregenuinelyinterestedin theposition.Questions 5 to 8 are based on the conversation you have just heard.5.A)Heprefers votingfor a qualifiedleader.B)Heprefers becominga businessman.C)Heprefers joininga non-governmentalorganization.D)Heprefers joininga politicalparty.6.A)Fromstates.B)Fromtheirownmembers.C)Fromtheirownbusinesses.D)Fromdonations.7.A)Thosewhocanoffergoodconcepts.C)Thosewho deliverenlighteningspeeches.B)Thosewhocanofferlotsof money.D)Thosewho aregood atmanagingeconomy.8.A)Intelligent.B)Humorous.C)Confident.D)Brave.Section BDirections：In thissection,you willheartwo long conversations.At theendof eachconversation,you willhearfour questions.Both the conversationandthe questions willbe spoken only once.After you heara question,youmustchoose thebestanswerfrom thefour choices marked A),B),C),andD).Then mark thecorrespondingletteronAnswer Sheet 1witha single line throughthecentre.Questions 9 to 11 are based on the passage you have just heard.9.A)Because it is a tonal language.B)Becauseitsgrammar is irregular.C)Becauseitscharactersaredifficultto remember.D)Becauseithasmanydialects.10.A)Totalkto asmanyChineseaspossible.B)Toget a bilingualteacherwho canspeak ChineseandEnglish.C)TowatchasmanyChinesemoviesaspossible.D)Tolisten to asmanyChineserecordingsaspossible.11.A)Findlocalsto talkto.B)Embrace itanduseiteverywhere.C)Memorize its characters.D)Readalot of Chinesebooks.Questions 12 to 15 are based on the passage you have just heard.12.A)Becausetheygetmorepraisefrom theirparents.B)Becausetheygetmorementalstimulationfrom theirparents.C)Becausetheygetmoreemotionalsupportfrom theirparents.D)Becausetheyget morehelp from theirparentswiththeirtasks.13.A)First-bornchildren havebetterbusinessachievements.B)First-bornchildren havebetterthinking skills.C)First-bornchildren havebettersenseof independence.D)First-bornchildren havebetterlogicalthinking.14.A)Writing.B)Reciting.C)Matchingletters.D)Calculating.15.A)Theyarea reasonableexplanationfor theobservedbirth-orderdifferences.B)Theyareincompletein explainingtheobservedbirth-orderdifferences.C)Theyaredoubtfulin explainingtheobservedbirth-orderdifferences.D)Theyareanunconvincingexplanationfor theobservedbirth-orderdifferences.Section CDirections:In this section,you willhearthreerecordingsof lectures orfollowedby threeor four questions.Therecordingswillbe played only once.After you heara question,you mustchoose the best answerfrom the fourchoices marked A),B),C),D).Thenmark the correspondingletter onAnswer Sheet 1with a single linethroughthecentre.Questions 16 to 18 are based on the recording you have just heard.16.A)Using minivansto collectdata.B)Usingdronesto collectdata.C)Releasinganewoperatingsystem.D)Releasinganewversionof app.17.A)Becauseit could notnavigate.B)Becauseit offeredwronginformation.C)Becauseit always broke down.D)Becauseits operatingsystemwastoo complex.18.A)Ithassimplifieditsoperatingsystem.C)It hasimproveditsappearance.B)It hasreleased anewversion.D)It hasaddedmoreinformation.Questions 20 to 22 are based on the recording you have just heard.19.A)Usefullanguage knowledgeis laid downin theveryearly monthsof life.B)Language ability canbe retainedwithoutfurtherinputof thelanguage.C)Language knowledgecannotberetainedwithoutfurtherinputof thelanguage.D)Theprocessof acquiring language startswhenthebabyis 2 yearsold.20.A)It is abstractin nature.C)It fadeswithtime.B)It relieson experience.D)It canbe erased.21.A)Whenthechildis born.C)Whenthechildis 6 mothsold.B)Whenthechildis still in thewomb.D)Whenthechildis 17 monthsold.22.A)It is aconcreteprocess.C)It is anabstractprocess.B)It dependsontraining.D)It dependsonfetaleducation.Questions 23 to 25 are based on the recording you have just heard.23.A)Pretendingto carethepatientsmayimproveyourjob.B)Professionalismdoesnotnecessarilyaccommodateempathy.C)Whetherdoctorsshouldempathize withpatients.D)Whatis thebestforpatients.24.A)It improvesthehealthof patients.C)It facilitatescommunication.B)It improvesthemoodof doctors.D)It decreasesthemedicalrisk.25.A)Leaning back in thechairwhenlistening.C)Repeatingtheirstatementscontinuously.B)Seeingthemeye-to-eyewhenlistening.D)Sittingnext to themwhenlistening.Part Reading Comprehension(40 minutes)SectionADirections:In thissection,thereis a passagewith tenblanks.Youarerequired to select one wordforeachblankfrom a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage.Read the passage throughcarefullybeforemaking your choices.Eachchoice in the bank is identifiedby a letter.Please mark the correspondingletterforeach item onAnswer Sheet 2with a single line throughthe centre.Youmay not use any of the wordsin thebank morethanonce.Questions 26 to 35 are based on the following passage.As the recentcourgette(密生西葫芦)crisis andshortagesof lettuce,eggplantsandbroccoli(绿花椰菜)haveshown,Spains fame as the vegetable garden of Europeis well deserved.Thecountrys huge agriculturalsectorcourgettes,lettuces,tomatoesandstrawberries_26_ahugedemand.There hasbeena major_27_towardsmechanization since the1950s,butjustas in theUK,manycropsstillneedto be harvestedby hand,andmanyfarmersrely on migrantlabour.Evenwheremechanisationcan be used,picking machinestendto be too expensive and_28_forsmall-scale farmers.Thetension between locals and migrantworkers,_29_fromNorthand Sub-Saharan Africa and easternEuropeis not a big problem,as many of the foreign workers have proper_30_andreturnto the same farmsyearafteryear.Theyreknown andthats important.Alfrutacompanyin the south-western provinceof Huelvathatexports strawberries,raspberries,andotherfruits aroundthe EUshill harvests by hand.“There is a machine that gathers strawberries,but you haveto_31_thecrop to the machine,”says Agustin Muriel,a technicalandquality controlexpert at Alfrut.“Ifwewereto use machines,we wouldhaveto_32_ourentireinfrastructure andit wouldrequire a lot of investmentinmachinery,whichis designedmainlyforlargeareasandreallybig companies.”Headdsthatthe_33_,manualapproachis likely to continueforthe_34_future,as fruitpricesarent highenough to allow farmersto makebig_35_inmachineryor spend money reconfiguring(重 新 配 置)theiroperations.A)adaptI)investmentsB)attachJ)modifyC)contractsK)predominantlyD)feedsL)preferenceE)foreseeableM)shiftF)heraldsN)traditionalG)impracticalO)unexpectedlyH)inaccessibleSection BDirections:In this section,you are going to read a passage with ten statementsattached to it.Eachstatementcontainsinformationgiven in one of theparagraphs.Identify theparagraph fromwhichtheinformationis derived.Youmay choose a paragraphmore thanonce.Eachparagraphis marked with a letter.Answer the questions bymarkingthecorresponding letteronAnswer Sheet 2.Now We re Talking:How Voice Technology Is Transforming ComputingALikecasting a magic spell,it lets people control the worldthroughwordsalone.Any sufficientlyadvancedtechnology,noted ArthurC.Clarke,a Britishscience-fiction writer,is indistinguishablefrommagic.Thefast-emergingtechnologyof voice computingproves his point.Usingit is just like castinga spell:say a few wordsintotheair,and a nearby device cangrantyourwish.BTheAmazon Echo,a voice-drivencylindrical(圆柱体的)computer thatsits on a table topand answerstothe nameAlexa,can all up music tracksand radio stations,tell jokes,answertrivia questions and controlsmartappliances;even before Christmasit was already resident in about 4%of Americanhouseholds.Voice assistantsare proliferatingin smartphones,too:Apples Siri handles over2bncommands a week,and20%of Googlesearcheson Android-poweredhandsets in Americaare inputbyvoice.Dictatingemails and text messages nowworksreliably enoughto be useful.Whytypewhenyoucantalk?CThisis a huge shift.Simple though it may seem,voicehas the power to transformcomputing,byprovidinga naturalmeansof interaction.Windows,icons and menus,and thentouchscreens,were welcomedasmoreintuitive ways to deal withcomputersthanenteringcomplex keyboardcommands.Butbeing able to talktocomputersabolishes theneed fortheabstraction of a“user interface”atall.Just as mobile phonesweremorethanexisting phones withoutwires,and carswere more thancarriageswithouthorses,so computerswithoutscreensand keyboardshave thepotentialto be moreuseful,powerfuland ubiquitousthanpeoplecanimaginetoday.DVoicewill notwholly replaceotherformsof inputand output.Sometimesit will remainmoreconvenientto converse witha machinebytypingratherthantalking(Amazonis said to be workingon anEchodevice withabuilt-inscreen).Butvoiceis destined to accountfora growingshareof peoples interactionswiththe technologyaround them,fromwashingmachinesthattell you how muchof the cycle they have left to virtual assistantsincorporatecall-centers.However,to reachits full potential,the technologyrequires furtherbreakthroughsandaresolutionof thetrickyquestions it raisesaround thetrade-offbetween convenience and privacy.EAlexa,what is deeplearning?Computer-dictationsystems have beenaround for years.But they wereunreliable andrequiredlengthy trainingto learn a specific users voice.Computers new abilityto recognizealmost anyones speech dependablywithout trainingis the latest latest manifestationof the power of“deeplearning”,an artificial-intelligence technique in which a softwaresystem is trained using millions of examples,usually culled(挑 选)from the internet.Thanks to deeplearning,machines now nearly equalhumans intranscriptionaccuracy,computerizedtranslationsystems are improving rapidly andtext-to-speechsystems arebecoming less robotic and morenatural-sounding.Computersare,in short,gettingmuchbetter athandling naturallanguagein allits forms.FAlthough deep learning means that machines can recognize speech more reliably and talk in a lessstilted(不自然的)manner,they still dont understand the meaning of language.That is the most difficult aspect ofthe problem and,if voice-driven computing is truly to flourish,one that must be overcome.Computers must beable to understand context in order to maintain a coherent conversation about something,rather than justresponding to simple,one-off voice commands,as they mostly do today(“Hey,Siri,set a timer for tenminutes”).Researchers in universities and at companies large and small are working on this very problem,building“bots”that can hold more elaborate conversations about more complex tasks,from retrieving information toadvising on mortgages to making travel arrangements.(Amazon is offering a$1m prize for a bot that can converse“coherently and engagingly”for 20 minutes.)GWhen spells replace spelling.Consumers and regulators also have a role to play in determining how voicecomputing develops.Even in its current,relatively primitive form,the technology poses a dilemma:voice-drivensystems are most useful when they are personalized,and are granted wide access to sources of data such ascalendars,emails and other sensitive information.That raises privacy and security concerns.HTo further complicate matters,many voice-driven devices are always listening,waiting to be activated.Some people are already concerned about the implications of internet-connected microphones listening in everyroom and from every smartphone.Not all audio is sent to the clouddevices wait for a trigger phrase(“Alexa”,“OK,Google”,“Hey,Cortana”,or“Hey,Siri”)before they start relaying the users voice to the servers thatactually handle the requestsbut when it comes to storing audio,it is unclear who keeps what and when.IPolice investigating a murder in Arkansas,which may have been overheard by an Amazon Echo,haveasked the company for access to any audio that might have been captured.Amazon has refused to co-operate,arguing(with the backing of privacy advocates)that the legal status of such requests is unclear.The situation isanalogous(相 似)to Apples refusal in 2016 to help FBI investigators unlock a terrorists iPhone;both caseshighlight the need for rules that specify when and what intrusions into personal privacy are justified in the interestsof security.JConsumers will adopt voice computing even if such issues remain unresolved.In many situations voice isfar more convenient and natural than any other means of communication.Uniquely,it can also be used whiledoing something else(driving,working out or walking down the street).It can extend the power of computing topeople unable,for one reason or another,to use screens and keyboards.And it could have a dramatic impact notjust on computing,but on the use of language itself.Computerized simultaneous translation could render the needto speak a foreign language irrelevant for many people;and in a world where machines can talk,minor languagesmay be more likely to survive.The arrival of the touchscreen was the last big shift in the way humans interact withcomputers.The leap to speech matters more.36.Despite the issue of invasion of privacy,voice-computings irresistible convenience is already receivingwide adoption.37.Conventional forms of input and output will not be entirely replaced by voice command.38.Deep learning revolutionizes speech technologies,enabling computers to process any natural language.39.Screens and keyboards of computers are not necessarily indispensable because of the invention of voicecomputing.40.Deep learning has real successes,but is not enough to understand the meaning of language.41.The convenience brought by voice computing can come at a risk of privacy or security.42.Laws that apply to privacy and security issues for voice technology are needed in light of the two cases inAmerica.43.Despite its simple appearance,voice is capable of changing computing,by bypassing the physical realm.44.Thanks to voice computing,several devices such as smartphones have already done some tasks by voiceord