模考题and2017年12月真题英语六级考试模考

1、大六冲刺模Part(30Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay entitled On MaainingTrustby commenting on the sayings uTrust is the most frequently used word when we are talking ersonalrelationships.However，itishardtobuildtrustbuteasytodestroyit.Therefore,howbuild and 大六冲刺模Part(3

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16、nthefollowingThe continuous ion of scary stories about global warming in the popular media makes sarilyfrightened.Evenworse,it 26 ourA1Gorefamouslyctedhowasea-levelriseof20feetwouldalmostyfloodFlorida,York, Holland, and Shanghai, even though the United Nations t such a thing will not even tsealevels

17、willrise20timesnWhen 27 withtheseexaggerations Tsome ofusttheyarefora goodcause,andsurelythereno harmdoneif the resulttwefocuseven moreon tacklingclimate This 28 is astonishingly wrong. Such exaggerations do plenty of harm. Worrying 29 about warmingtweworrylessaboutotherthings,wherewecoulddosooregoo

18、d.Wefocus,le, on 30 warmings impact on malaria (疟疾)which will put slightly more people at risk in yearsinstead of tackling the half a billion people suffering from malaria today with prevention treatment taremuch rand dramaticallymorencarbonreductionwould 31 also wears out the publics willingness to

19、 tackle global warming. If the planet is doomed, people wonder, why do anything? A record 54% of American voters now ve the news media make warmingappearnit reallyis. A 32 ofpeople nowtglobalwarmingnoteven causedby But the worst cost of exaggeration, I ve, is the 33 t it causesparticularly children.

20、 An he t cited nine-year-old Alyssa, who cries about sibility massanimal34 fromglobalTheralsotparentsaresearchingfor“productive”outletsfortheireight-year-s (忧心忡忡) with dying polar bears. They might be better off edu- eating them and letting t, contrary to common f, the global polar bear population h

21、as 35 and perhaps quadrupled (成为四倍) over the lf-century, to about 20,000. Despite diminishingand disappearingsummerArcticice,polarbearswilleI) J) K) L)SectionDirections: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten sements attached to it. Each ement contains information given in one of

22、the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from which informationisderived.Youmaychooseaparagraphnonce.Eachparagraphismarkedletter.Answerthequestionsbymarkingthecorrespondingletteron AnswerSheetsPlanforSectionDirections: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten sements attached to it. E

23、ach ement contains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from which informationisderived.Youmaychooseaparagraphnonce.Eachparagraphismarkedletter.Answerthequestionsbymarkingthecorrespondingletteron AnswerSheetsPlanforWorldsBiggestOnlineLibrary:PhilanthropyorActofA In rece

24、nt years, teams of workers dispatched have been working hard to make digital million titles from libraries in America copies of books. So has scanned n Europeincluding half a million volumes held by the Bodleian in Oxford. The exact method it uses unclear: the company does not allow outsiders to obs

25、erve the pro s. Why undertaking such B Whyis iterestedinallthose out-of-librarybooks, most of which have been dust on otten shelves for decades? The company claims its motives are essentially public-spirited. overall ,afterall,istoanisetheworldsinformation”,soitwouldbeoddtinformationnot include book

26、s. The company likes to present itself as having lofty aspirations. “This really isnt making money. We ng this for the good of society.” As a Mom, head forEurope,putsit:“Bymakingsibletosearchthemillionsoftexisttoday,wehopetothefrontiersofC Dan Clancy, the chief architect primarily a philanthropic ex

27、ercise. Books, does seem genuine in his t this s core business is search and find, so obviously what ooglehesays.Butwehaveneverbuiltaspreadsheetssearchengineisgood数据表) outliningthe thecompanyslbenefits ofthis, and I have never had tojustify theamount Iamspending D It is easy, talking to Clancy and h

28、is colleagues, to be t along by their ary . sbook-scanningprojectisprovingcontroversial.Severalopponentshaverecentlyemerged,from rival tech ch and Amazon to small bodies representing authors and acrosstheworld.In broadterms,theseopponentshavelevelledtwosetsofcriticisms .,theyhavequestionedwhetherthe

29、primaryresponsibilityfor digitallyarchivingthebooksshouldbeallowedtofalltoalcompany,inarecentheNewYorkReviewofRobertDarnton,theheadofHarvardUniversityslibrary,tbecausesuchbooksarea ofusallonlypublic,not-for-profitbodiesshouldbegiven erto FThesecondrelatedcriticismtsscanningofbooksuallyillegal.Thisal

30、legationledJarndyce ingmiredin陷入a legalbattlewhosescopeandcomplexitymakestheJarndyceens, Bleak House look straightforward. At its centre, however, is one simple i e:t of copyright. The has arguably paid insufficien tention,ttheyareprotectedbycopyright.Copyrightlawsdifferin inconvenientfact aboutmost

31、 books,to countrytocountry,butingeneralprotectionextendsforthedurationofanauthorslifeandforasubstantialperiodafterwards,thusallowingtheauthorsheirsbenefit.(InBritainandAmerica,t-deathperiodis70years.)Thismeans,oftalmostallofthebookshe20thcenturyarecopyrightandthelastcenturysawmorebooksninallprevious

32、centuriescombined.Oftheroughly40millionbooksinUSlibraries,foranestimated32millionareincopyright.Ofthese,some27millionareoutofpr M)N) O) G Outside the has made sure only to scan t are out of copyright and ”chastheeditionofMiddlemarch,whichanyonecanreadforBooksSearch)H But, heUS,thecompanyhasscannedbo

33、thin-copyrightandout-of-copy-rightworks.Institdisplaysonlysmallsegmentsoftareincopyrighttsuch displays are “fair use”. ritics t by making electronic copies of these books hascommittedpiracy. “The keyprinciple ofseeking the permis lawhasalwaysG Outside the has made sure only to scan t are out of copy

34、right and ”chastheeditionofMiddlemarch,whichanyonecanreadforBooksSearch)H But, heUS,thecompanyhasscannedbothin-copyrightandout-of-copy-rightworks.Institdisplaysonlysmallsegmentsoftareincopyrighttsuch displays are “fair use”. ritics t by making electronic copies of these books hascommittedpiracy. “Th

35、e keyprinciple ofseeking the permis lawhasalwaysofcopyright tworkscanbecopiedonlyonceauthorshaveexpresslygiventheir,”Piers Blofeld, of the Sheil Land literary agency in London. “ all these works without bothering to ask.”I In 2005, the Authors Guild of America, together has reversed s simply group o

36、f US publishers, launched a n two years of negotiation, ended with action suit ) t, after announcement last tand the claimants had reached an out-of-court settlement. The detailsare complicatedthe text aloneruns to385 pagesandtryingtosummariseit is noeasytask. of the problem is British critics.t it

37、is prehensible,” says Blofeld, one of the settlements most J Broadly, the deal provides a mechanism oogle to compensate authors and publishers rightssbreached(includinggivingthemashareofany futurerevenueitgeneratesfromtheirworks).exchangefor this,therightsholders agreenotto inK This settlement erbut

38、 only with the agreement of individual rights books. It can include them in subscription deals sold holdersto exploit its database of out-of-libraries or sell them individually under a consumer licence. It is these commer proving the settlements most controversial aspect.l st LCriticst,bytherighttol

39、lyexploititsdatabase,thepaves the way for a subtle he companys role from provider of information to seller. business has always been to provide information for free, and sell advertising on the basis of trafficthisgenerates,”soutJamesGrimmelmann,teprofessoratNewYorkLawSchool.hesays,becauseofthesettl

40、ementseasignificantforceinhis aspect of the s focused on “orphan” works, where there is no copyright holderthese make up an 5-10% of the has scanned. Under settlement, when no rights holders come forward and register erest in a work, l automaticallyreverts.willbeabletodisplay upto 20% oforphanworks

41、for free, themin bscriptiondealstolibrariesandsellthemtoindividualbuyersundertheconsumer N It is by no means hat the settlement will be enacted (执行)it is the subject of a he US courts. But if it is will in effect be off the hook as far as heUSareconcerned.Manypeopleareseriouslyconcernedbythisandthec

42、ompanyistofacechallengesin othercourtsaroundthe O No one knows the precise will make of ellectual property it has gained scanningthe worlds librarybooks, and the truth, as Gleick, an American science writer and member of Authors Guild，posout，is t, in some way or other,book worldinyearsto t the compa

43、ny probably doesnt even know itself. But what is certain s o digital bookselling will have a significant impact on hasinvolveditselfinalegalbattleasitignoredthecopyrightofthebooksit37. Thesbookscanningprojectadoptsisnotavailabletotheoutside38. The class action suit was settled with the details being

44、 complicated and difficult 39.Opponentsof Books bet digitally archiving the worlds books should be controlled defends its scanning in copyright books by t it displays only a small part of 41.Criticstthesettlementofthelcouldastronginbooksellingclaimsitsplanfortheworldsbiggestonlinelibraryistoserveere

45、stoferalhesodigitalbooksellingwilttremendouslyinfluencethebook44. Thelsofthesettlementremainedcontroversialafterthelawsuit45. The settlement of orphan works, if enacted, will in defends its scanning in copyright books by t it displays only a small part of 41.Criticstthesettlementofthelcouldastrongin

46、booksellingclaimsitsplanfortheworldsbiggestonlinelibraryistoserveerestoferalhesodigitalbooksellingwilttremendouslyinfluencethebook44. Thelsofthesettlementremainedcontroversialafterthelawsuit45. The settlement of orphan works, if enacted, will in reality end the lawsuits concerning SectionheUSfiled .

47、Directions:Thereare2hissection.Eachpassage isfollowedbysomequestionsorements.ForeachofthemtherearefourmarkedA),B),C)andD).Youshoulddecideonthechoiceandmarkthecorrespondingletteron AnswerSheet2PassageQuestions46to50arebasedonthefollowingsinglelinethroughthe is n a serious economic downturn. What dist

48、inguishes a from a is paralyzing fearfear of the unknown so t it causes consumers, businesses, and y cut spending. They sell stocks and investors to retreat and panic. They save up cash and despera assets. A shattering loss of confidence inspires behaviort the normal self-t usuallypreventa ingdeep a

49、ndprolonged: a.Comparing 1929 with 200709, Christina Romer, the head Obamas Council of Advisers, finds the initial blow to confidence far greater n then. True, stock fell a third September to December 1929, but fewer Americans then owned stocks. Moreover, home dropped. From December 1928 to December

50、 1929, total household wealth declined only 3%. By thelossinhouseholdwealthnDecember2007andDecember2008was17%.Bothstocksandmore widely held, dropped more. Thus traumatized (), the economy ve o a fall ending in ., it did o free fall. Shoppers refrained from buying cars, ,andotherbig-ticketitems.Spend

51、ingonsuch“durables”droppedata12%annualratein2008sthirda 20% hefourth.Andbusinessesshelvedinvestmentt these huge declines didnt lead to mainly reflects, as Romer argues, taken by ernment. Private markets oods, , labor, and securities do mostly self-but panic feeds on itself and disarms these stabiliz

52、ing his situation, ernmentcan heself-protecttheeconomyasa whole,becausemost individuals andcompaniesareinvolved behavior of self-protection.ernments failure to perform this role in the early 1930s transformed o .Scholars will debate erventions this time_the Federal pport ofa failing credit guarantee

53、s of debt, Obamas “stimulus” plan and “stress test”counted most in preventing recurrence.Regardless,allthesecomplex measureshadthesame psychological e:toretthefreefallwouldstop and,thereby,curbthe twouldetuate使持久) afree Allthisimprovedconfidence.Buttheconsumersentimentindexremainsweak,andalltherebou

54、ndhas occurred in Americans evaluation of future economic conditions，not the present. Unemployment is abysmal (糟透的), the recoverys clear. Here, too, there is an echo from the 1930s. bottoming out in 1933, the didnt end until World War II. ernment policies recovery;somehindered it.Thegoodnewstoday t

55、thebad news isnot 46. Whydoconsumers,businessesandinvestorsretreatandimesof?A)Theysufferossesinstocks,propertyandotherB) Theyfindtheself-correctingmechanismsC) TheyareafraidthenormallorderwillbeD) Theydontknowwhatis goingtoheWhatdoesChristinaRomersayaboutthecurrenteconomicItsseverityisnomatchfortheG

56、reatof?B) ItsinitialblowtoconfidencefartofIIsaffectedhouseownersnstocksresultedinafreefallC) TheyareafraidthenormallorderwillbeD) Theydontknowwhatis goingtoheWhatdoesChristinaRomersayaboutthecurrenteconomicItsseverityisnomatchfortheGreatof?B) ItsinitialblowtoconfidencefartofIIsaffectedhouseownersnst

57、ocksresultedinafreefalloftheof48. WhydidntthecurrentoaaccordingtoChristinaA)ervenedPrivatemarketscorrectedPeoplerefrainedfrombuyingdurablesandbig-ticketIndividualsandcompaniesadoptedself-protection49. WhatisthechiefeofallthecountermeasuresA)Tocreatejob C)TostimulatedomesticB)Tocurbthefearofalastingf

58、reeD)TorebuildthecreditWhatdoestheauthorthinkoftodayseconomicItmayworsenwithoutfurtherItwillseeareboundsoonerorC) snot gonefrombadtoD) ItdoesnotgivepeoplereasonforPassageQuestions51to55arebasedonthefollowingA recurring criticism of the UKs university sector is its perceived weakness translating prod

59、uctsand .Recently, the UK National Stem Cell Network warned the UK could lose its place among the leaders in stem cell less adequate funding and legislation could be red. We should take concernseriouslyasuniversitiesarehenationalinnovation However,wedohavetochallengetheunthinkingtthesectordoesnotdoi

60、deas to market. The most recent comparative data on the performance of universities and institutionsinAustralia,Canada, USAandUKt, fromarelatively weakition,the nowleadson manyindicatorsof lizationWhenviewedatthenationallevel,theerventionsofthepastdecadehavehelpedtransformperformance of UK universit