大学英语六级（2013年12月考试改革适用）模拟试卷320
作文
1.For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay commenting on the remark \\
Is machine translation more efficient?
(1)With the development of modern technology, there arise different kinds of translation apps. It seems that the translation work has become much easier with the translation apps. And people hold different opinions towards them. Then is machine translation more efficient? (2)I think that the machine translation has both advantages and disadvantages.
(3)To begin with, machine translation could be able to process complex information in the original text at a much higher speed than our humans. And it can make up for the (4)deficiency of human translation. However, machine translation is crude (5)to some degree. People have to go through what the translation apps have translated, which might take much time and energy.
All in all, everything has two sides. We should have a good attitude toward the machine translation, taking in its advantages and overcoming the disadvantages. Only in this way can our humans translate good works.
解析： (1)该句指出随着科技的发展，涌现出许多翻译软件。
(2)该句表明自己的观点：机器翻译既有优点，又有缺点。
(3)To begin with意为“首先”。
(4)deficiency意为“不足”
(5)to some degree意为“在某种程度上”。
词汇理解
Our ape-men forefathers had no obvious natural weapons in the struggle for survival in the open. They had neither the powerful teeth nor the strong claws of the big cats. They could not【C1】______with the bear, whose strength, speed and claws provided an impressive \’ small fire\’ weaponry. They could not even defend themselves by running swiftly like the horses, zebras or small animals. If the ape-men had attempted to compete on those terms in the open, they would have been【C2】______to failure and extinction. But they were【C3】______with enormous concealed advantages of a kind not possessed by any of their competitors. In the search of the picking of the forest, the ape-men had【C4】______efficient stereoscopic vision and a sense of colour that the animals of the grasslands did not possess. The ability to see clearly at close range permitted the ape-men to study practical problems in a way that lay far【C5】______the search of the original inhabitants of the grassland. Good long-distance sight was quite another matter. Lack of long-distance vision had not been a problem for forest-dwelling apes and monkeys because the higher the viewpoint, the greater the range of sight—so【C6】______they had had to do was climb a tree. Out in the open, however, this simple solution was not【C7】______. Climbing a hill would have helped, but in many places the ground was flat.
The ape-men【C8】______the only possible solution. They reared up as high as possible on their hind limbs and began to walk upright.
This vital change of physical position brought about considerable disadvantages. It was ex tremely unstable and it meant that the already slow ape-men became slower still. However, they persevered and their bone structure gradually became【C9】______to the new, unstable position that【C10】______them the name Homo erectus, upright man.
A) compare B) driven C) match D) endowed
E) doomed F) developed G) all H) adopted
I) earned J) generated K) familiarized L) adapted
M) available N) beyond O) bestowed
2.【C1】
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