2022年12月大学英语六级考试模拟题及答案(五)

　　Part I Error Correction (15 minutes)

　　Directions: This part consists of a short passage. In this passage, there are altogether 10 mistakes, one in each numbered line. You may have to add a word, cross out a word, or change a word. If you add a word, put an insertion mark (∧) in the right place and write the missing word in the blank. If you cross out a word, put a slash ( / ) in the blank. If you change a word, cross it out and write the correct word in the corresponding blank.

　　Within the various forms of energy, natural 71. ______

　　gas has been favorite among U.S. consumers for 72. ______

　　more than 30 years. It has a number of outstanding

　　characteristics add to its popularity among consumers. 73. ______

　　First of all, natural gas is a comparatively clean

　　--burning fuel. Second, natural gas heat can carefully 74. ______

　　controlled. This issue makes it the favorite fuel

　　of certain industry. At home, gas is preferred 75. ______

　　by most people for cooking and heating because the 76. ______

　　ease by which it can be put to work. Gas cooking and heating

　　furnaces can be turned off and shut off quickly and easy.77. ______

　　Besides, natural gas can be made into a liquid by a special

　　process and then store in tanks. This type of gas can then 78.______

　　be transported by truck, rail car, or pipeline to regions where

　　transport by natural gas pipelines is not economic possible

　　79.______

　　Although the supply of natural gas in the U.S. appears to be decreasing, geologists estimate that billions

　　of cubic feet of natural gas still remains to be 80. ______

　　discovered and produced.

　　Part II Translation from English to Chinese (15 minutes)

　　Directions: In this part, there are five items, which you should translate into Chinese, each item consists of one or two sentence. These sentences are all taken from the reading passages you have just read in the Second Part of the Test Paper.

　　You are allowed 15 minutes to do the translation. You can refer back to the passages so as to identify their meanings in the context.

　　81. (Lines 15, Para.4, Passage 1)

　　The ice does not become a glacier until it moves under its own weight, and it cannot move significantly until it reaches a critical thickness—the point at which the weight of the piled—up layers overcomes the internal strength of the ice and the friction between the ice and the ground.

　　82. (Lines 47, Para.1, Passage 2)

　　It is impossible to know today just what our Stone Age ancestors knew about plants, but from what we can observe of pre—industrial societies that still exist, a detailed learning of plants and their properties must be extremely ancient.

　　83. (Lines 1922, Para.1, Passage 3)

　　Because a solid—fuel rocket can be kept ready for a long time, most military missiles employ solid fuels, but human—piloted space flight needs the fine adjustments that can only be provided by liquid fuels.

　　84. (Lines 35, Para.1, Passage 4)

　　But it used also to be widely believed that effective rewards, at least in the early stages, had to be directly related to such basic physiological “drives" as thirst or hunger.