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2021年1月9日发(作者：徐松根)
2015年12月大学英语六级考试真题(第3套)
Part I Writing(30 minutes)Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to
write a short essay based on the should focus on the harm caused
by misleading information arerequired to write at least 150 words but
no more than 200 words.

Part Ⅱ Listening Comprehension (30 minutes)
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Section A
Directions: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long
the endof each conversation, one or more questions will be asked
about what was theconversation and the questions will be spoken only
each question there will bea the pause, you must read the
four choices marked A), B), D),and decide which is the best mark
the corresponding letter on AnswerSheet I with a single line through the centre.
has completely recovered.
went into shock after an operation.
is still in a critical condition.
is getting much better.
ng a breakfast.
g a hotel room.
a train ticket.
a compartment.
borrowers never returned the books to her.
man is the only one who brought her book back.
never expected anyone to return the books to her.
of the books she lent out came back without jackets.
left her work early to get some bargains last Saturday.
attended the supermarket's grand opening ceremony.
drove a full hour before finding a parking space.
failed to get into the supermarket last Saturday.
is bothered by the pain in his neck.
cannot do his report without a computer.
cannot afford to have a coffee break.
feels sorry to have missed the report.
top art students can show their works in the gallery.
gallery space is big enough for the man's paintings.
woman would like to help with the exhibition layout.
man is uncertain how his art works will be received.
woman needs a temporary replacement for her assistant.
man works in the same department as the woman does.
woman will have to stay in hospital for a few days.
man is capable of dealing with difficult people.
was better than the previous one.
distorted the mayor's speech.
exaggerated the city's economic problems.
reflected the opinions of most economists.
Questions 9 to 12 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
inform him of a problem they face.
request him to purchase control desks.
discuss the content of a project report.
ask him to flX the dictating machine.
quote the best price in the market.
manufacture and sell office furniture.
cannot deliver the steel sheets on time.
cannot produce the steel sheets needed.
marking down the trait price.
accepting the penalty clauses.
allowing more time for delivery.
promising better after- sales service.
the customer a ten percent discount.
compensation from the steel suppliers.
the Buying Department to change suppliers.
the contract with the customer.
Questions 13 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
roker.
ist.
atician.
ist.
e computer programming.
n certain natural phenomena.
t global population growth.
e national financial health.
different educational backgrounds.
ng attitudes toward nature.
theory and its applications.
current global economic n B
Directions : In this section, you will hear 3 short the end of each
passage, you will hearsome the passage and the questions will be
spoken only youhear a question, you must choose the best answer from the
four choices marked A), B), D ).Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer
Sheet 1 with a single linethrough the centre.
Passage One
Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.
lay great emphasis on hard work.
name 150 star engineers each year.
require high academic degrees.
have people with a very high IQ.
years of job training.
emotional intelligence.
ctive academic qualifications.
on to the advance of science.
interpersonal relationships.
working experience.
ticated equipment.
motivation.
Passage Two
Questions 19 to 21 are based on the passage you have just heard.
19.A.A diary.
B.A fairy tale.
C.A history textbook.
D.A biography.
was a sports fan.
loved adventures.
disliked school.
liked hair-raising stories.
age people to undertake adventures.
ize his colorful and unique life stories.
people's environmental awareness.
t people to America's national parks.
Passage Three
Questions 22 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.
first infected victim.
B.A coastal village in Africa.
doctor who lust identified it.
D.A river running through the Congo.
exhibit similar symptoms.
can be treated with the same drug.
have almost the same mortality rate.
have both disappeared for good.
inhaling air polluted with the virus.
contacting contaminated body fluids.
drinking water from the Congo River.
eating food grown in Sudan and Zalre.
strains will evolve from the Ebola virus.
ists will eventually fred cures for Ebola.
r Ebola epidemic may erupt sooner or later.
infected, one will become immune to n C
Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three the passage
is read for the irst time, you should listen carefully for its general
the passage is read forthe second time, you are required to fill in the blanks with
the exact words you have y, when the passage is read for the third
time, you should check what youhave written.
The ideal companion machine would not only look, feel, and sound friendly but would
also beprogrammed to behave in an agreeable 26 that make
interaction with other peopleenjoyable would be simulated as closely as possible,
and the machine would 27 charming,stimulating, and informal
conversational style would make interaction comfortable, andyet the machine would
remain slightly 28 and therefore its first encounter it might
besomewhat hesitant and unassuming, but as it came to know the user it would progress
to a more 29 and intimate machine would not be a passive 30 but would
add its ownsuggestions, information, and opinions; it would sometimes 31
developing or changing the topicand would have a personality of its own.
The machine would convey presence: We have all seen how a computer's use of personal
namesoften 32 people and leads them to treat the machine as if it were almost
features areeasily written into the introducing 33
forcefulness and humor, the machine could bepresented as a vivid and unique
character.
Friendships are not made in a day, and the computer would be more acceptable as a
friend if it 34 the gradual changes that occur when one person is getting to know
an 35 timeit might also express the kind of affection that stimulates
attachment and intimacy.
Part m Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)Section A
Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten are required
to select one wordfor each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following
the thepassage through carefully before making your choices. Each
choice in the bank isidentified by a mark the corresponding letter
for each item on AnswerSheet 2 with a single line through the may not
use any of the words in thebank more than once.
Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.
As it is, sleep is so undervalued that getting by on fewer hours has become a badge
of , we live in a culture that 36 to the late-nighter, from 24-hour
grocery stores to onlineshopping sites that never 's no surprise, then, that
more than half of American adults don't getthe 7 to 9 hours of shut- eye every night
as 37 by sleep experts.
Whether or not we can catch up on sleep--on the weekend, say--is a hotly 38 topic
amongsleep latest evidence suggests that while it isn't 39 , it
might Liu, theUCLA sleep researcher and professor of medicine, brought
40 sleep-restricted people into the labfor a weekend of sleep during which they
logged about 10 hours per night, they showed 41 in theability of insulin (胰
岛素) to process blood suggests that catch-up sleep may undo some
but not all of the damage that sleep 42 causes, which is encouraging, given how
many adults don'tget the hours they need each , Liu isn't 43 to
endorse the habit of sleeping less andmaking up for it later.
Sleeping pills, while helpful for some, are not 44 an effective remedy either.
sleeping pillwill 45 one area of the brain, but there's never going to be a
perfect sleeping pill, because youcouldn't really replicate (复制 ) the different
chemicals moving in and out of different parts of the brainto go through the different
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Section B
Directions: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements
attached to atement contains information given in one of the
fy the paragraphfrom which the information is may
choose a paragraph more than paragraph is marked with a letter. Answer
the questions by marking thecorresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.
Climate change may be real, but it's still not easy being green
How do we convince our inner caveman to be greener? We ask some outstanding social
scientists.
[A] The road to climate hell is paved with our good cians may tackle
polluters whilescientists do battle with carbon the most pervasive
problem is less obvious: ourown get distracted before we can turn down
the break our promise notto fly after hearing about a neighbour's trip
to tely, we can't be bothered to changeour ately for the
planet, social science and behavioural economics may be able todo that for us.
[B] Despite mournful polar beats and charts showing carbon emissions soaring, most
people find ithard to believe that global warming will affect them
polls by the Pew ResearchCentre in Washington, DC, found that 75-80 per cent of
participants regarded climate change as animportant respondents ranked
it last on a list of priorities.
[C] This inconsistency largely stems from a feeling of can't
actually removethe source of our fear, we tend to adapt psychologically by adopting
a range of defencemechanisms,says Tom Crompton, change strategist for the
environmental organisation WorldWide Fund for Nature.
[ D] Part of the fault lies with our inner ion has programmed humans
to pay mostattention to issues that will have an immediate impact.
about now because if wedon't survive for the next minute, we're not going to be around
in ten years' time,says ProfessorElke Weber of the Centre for Research on
Environmental Decisions at Columbia University in the Thames were lapping
around Big Ben, Londoners would face up to the problem ofemissions pretty
in practice, our brain discounts the risks--and benefits-- associatedwith issues
that lie some way ahead.
[E] Matthew Rushworth, of the Department of Experimental Psychology at the
University of Oxford,sees this in his lab every day.
agents seem to make decisions is thatthey assign a lower weighting to outcomes that
are going to be further away in the future,
for an animal to make decisions in the wild and would have
been very helpful for humans for thousands of years.
[F] Not any the time we wake up to the threat posed by climate change,
it could well betoo ff we're not going to make rational decisions about
the future, others may have tohelp us to do so.
[G] Few political libraries are without a copy of Nudge: Improving Decisions About
Health, Wealthand Happiness, by Richard Thaler and Cass argue that
governments shouldpersuade us into making better decisions--such as saving more in
our pension plans--by changingthe default sor Weber believes that
environmental policy can make use of , for example, building codes
included green construction guidelines, most developerswould be too lazy to
challenge them.
[H] Defaults are certainly part of the social scientists are most
concerned about craftingmessages that exploit our group mentality (,~, ~ ).need
to understand what motivatespeople, what it is that allows them to make change,
says Professor Neil Adger, of the TyndallCentre for Climate Change Research in
actually about what their peers think ofthem, what their social norms
are, what is seen as desirable in society.
continually looking over his shoulder to see what the rest of the tribe are up to.[ I ]
The passive attitude we have to climate change as individuals can be altered by
counting us in--and measuring us against--our peer are primitive
and elemental,
together, fishschool together, cattle herd together...just
perceiving norms is enough to cause people to adjusttheir behaviour in the direction
of the crowd.
[J] These norms can take us beyond good ni conducted a study in
San Diego inwhich coat hangers bearing messages about saving energy were hung on
people's ofthe messages mentioned the environment, some financial
savings, others social was the ones that mentioned the actions
of neighbours that drove down power use.
[K] Other studies show that simply providing the facility for people to compare their
energy use withthe local average is enough to cause them to modify their
Conservatives plan toadopt this strategy by making utility companies
print the average local electricity and gas usage onpeople's bills.
[L] Social science can also teach politicians how to avoid our collective capacity
for nmental campaigns that tell us how many people
drive SUVs unwittingly (不经意的) imply that this behaviour is widespread and thus
ni recommends somecareful framing of the message.
normalising the undesirable behaviour, the messageneeds to marginalise it, for
example, by stating that if even one person buys yet another SUV, itreduces our
ability to be energy-independent.
[M] Tapping into how we already see ourselves is most successful
environmental strategywill marry the green message to our own sense of
your average trade unionmember, chances are they will be politically motivated and
be used to collective action--muchlike Erica Gregory.A retired member of the Public
and Commercial Services Union, she is settingup one of 1,i00 action groups with the
support of Climate Solidarity, a two-year environmentalcampaign aimed at trade
unionists.
[N] Erica is proof that a great-grandmother can help to lead the revolution if you
get the psychologyright--in this case, by matching her enthusiasm for the
environment with a fondness for organisinggroups.
she says of the campaign.
something in is expecting up to 20 people at the firstmeeting she has called,
at her local pub in the Cornish village of Polperro.
[O] Nick Perks, project director for Climate Solidarity, believes this sort of
activity is where the futureof environmental action lies.
society structures or networks is a more effective way of creating change.., and
obviously trade unions are one of the biggest civil societynetworks in the UK,he
says. The
with another such network--the Women's er Rachel Taylor
joined the campaign with the aim of making new friends.A year on, the meetings have
madelasting changes to what she throws away in her of an
incentive if you'redoing it with other people,she tes you more if
you know that you've got toprovide feedback to a group.
[P]The power of such simple psychology in fighting climate change is attracting
attention across thepolitical the US, the House of Representatives
Science Committee has approveda bill allocating $$10 million a year to studying
energy-related the UK, new studiesare in development and social
scientists are regularly spotted in British government e help of
psychologists, there is fresh hope that we might go green after all.
people find they are powerless to change a situation, they tend to live with
it.
be effective, environmental messages should be carefully framed.
is the government's responsibility to persuade people into making
environment-friendly decisions.
cians are beginning to realise the importance of enlisting psychologists'
help in fighting climatechange.
find effective solutions to climate change, it is necessary to understand what
motivates people to make change.
their evolution, humans have learned to pay attention to the most urgent issues
instead of long-term concerns.
study shows that our neighbours' actions are influential in changing our
behaviour.
e clear signs of global warming, it is not easy for most people to believe
climate change will affect their own lives.
should take our future into consideration in making decisions concerning
climate change before it is too late.
ng social networks can be more effective in creating change in people's
n C
Directions: There are 2 passages in this passage is followed by some
questions orunfinished each of them there are four choices marked
A), B), ).You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding
letter on AnswerSheet 2 with a single line through the centre.
Passage One
Questions 56 to 60 are based on the following passage.
More than a decade ago, cognitive scientists John Bransford and Daniel Schwartz,
both then atVanderbilt University, found that what distinguished young adults from
children was not the ability toretain facts or apply prior knowledge to a new
situation but a quality they called for
researchers asked fifth graders and college students to create a recovery plan to
protectbald eagles from extinction. Shockingly, the two groups came up with plans
of similar quality(although the college students had better spelling skills ). From
the standpoint of a traditionaleducator, this outcome indicated that schooling had
failed to help students think about ecosystems andextinction, major scientific
ideas.
The researchers decided to go deeper, asked both groups to generate
questionsabout important issues needed to create recovery this task, they
found large e students focused on critical issues of
interdependence between eagles and their hab/tats (栖息地).Fifth graders tended to
focus on features of individual eagles (
eat?
cornerstone of had learned how to learn.
Museums and other institutions of informal learning may be better suited to teach
this skill than elementary and secondary the Exploratorium in San
Francisco, we recently studied howlearning to ask good questions can affect the
quality of people's scientific found that when
we taught participants to ask if?and can?questions that nobody present
would knowthe answer to and that would spark exploration, they engaged in better
inquiry at the next exhibit--asking more questions, performing more experiments and
making better interpretations of their ically, their questions became
more comprehensive at the new than merely askingabout something they
wanted to try, they tended to include both cause and effect in their
juicy questions appears to be a transferable skill for deepening collaborative
inquiry into thescience content found in exhibits.
This type of learning is not confined to museums or institutional al
learningenvironments tolerate failure better than s many teachers
have too little time to allowstudents to form and pursue their own questions and
too much ground to cover in the ple must acquire this skill
society depends on them being able to make criticaldecisions about
their own medical treatment, say, or what we must do about global energy needs
that, we have a robust informal learning system that gives no grades,
takes all comers,and is available even on holidays and weekends.
is traditional educators' interpretation of the research outcome mentioned
in the first paragraph ?
ts are not able to apply prior knowledge to new problems.
e students are no better than fifth graders in memorizing facts.
ion has not paid enough attention to major environmental issues.
ion has failed to lead students to think about major scientific ideas.
what way are college students different from children?
have learned to think critically.
are concerned about social issues.
are curious about specific features.
have learned to work independently.
is the benefit of asking questions with no ready answers?
arouses students' interest in things around them.
cultivates students' ability to make scientific inquiries.
trains students' ability to design scientific experiments.
helps students realize not every question has an answer.
is said to be the advantage of informal learning?
allows for failures.
is entertaining.
charges no tuition.
meets practical needs.
does the author seem to encourage educators to do at the end of the passage?
students to think about global issues.
more interactive classroom activities.
full use of informal learning resources.
e collaborative inquiry in the e Two
Questions 61 to 65 are based on the following passage.
an old saying in the space world: amateurs talk about technology,
professionals talkabout insurance.
George Whitesides, chief executive ofspace-tourism fu'm Virgin Galactic, was
placing his company in the latter insurance willbe cold comfort
following the failure on October 31st of VSS Enterprise, resulting in the death of
onepilot and the severe injury to another.
On top of the tragic loss of life, the accident in California will cast a long shadow
over the future of space tourism, even before it has properly begun.
The notion of space tourism took hold in 2001 with a $$ 20 million flight aboard a
Russianspacecraft by Dennis Tito, a millionaire engineer with an adventurous
haft a dozen holiday-makers have reached orbit since then, for similarly
astronomical price tags. But more recently,companies have begun to plan more
affordable
Galactic had, prior to this week's accident, seemed closest to
startingregular company has already taken deposits from around 800
would-be space tourists,including Stephen Hawking.
After being dogged by technical delays for years, Sir Richard Branson, Virgin
Galactic's founder,had recently suggested that a SpaceShipTwo craft would carry its
first paying customers as soon asFebruary 2015. That now seems an impossible timeline.
In July, a sister craft of the crashedspaceplane was reported to be about
other half will have to walt, as authorities ofAmerica's Federal
Aviation Administration ( National Transportation Safety Board work out:what
went wrong.
In the meantime, the entire space tourism industry will be on tenterhooks (坐立
不安 ).The 2004Commercial Space Launch Amendments Act, intended to encourage
private space vehicles andservices, prohibits the transportation secretary (and
thereby the regulating the design oroperation of private spacecraft, unless
they have resulted in a serious or fatal injury to crew means
that the FAA could suspend Virgin Galactic's licence to could also insiston
checking private manned spacecraft as thoroughly as it does commercial
that may:make suborbital travel safer, it would add significant cost
and complexity to an emerging industry thathas until now operated largely as the
playground of billionaires and dreamy engineers.
How Virgin Galactic, regulators and the public respond to this most recent tragedy
will determinewhether and how soon private space travel can transcend that
is no doubt that space flight entails risks, and to pioneer a new
mode of travel is to face those risks, and to reduce the benefit of hard- won
experience.
is said about the failure of VSS Enterprise?
may lead to the bankruptcy of Virgin Galactic.
has a strong negative impact on space tourism.
may discourage rich people from space travel.
has aroused public attention to safety issues.
do we learn about the space-tourism firm Virgin Galactic?
has just built a craft for commercial flights.
has sent half a dozen passengers into space.
was about ready to start regular business.
is the first to launch
is the purpose of the 2004 Commercial Space Launch Amendments Act?
ensure space travel safety.
limit the FAA's functions.
legalize private space explorations.
promote the space tourism might the FAA do after the recent
accident in California?
more rigid safety standards.
certifying new space-tourist agencies.
its 2004 Commercial Space Launch Amendments Act.
d Virgin Galactic's licence to take passengers into space.
does the author think of private space travel?
is worth promoting despite the risks involved.
should not be confined to the rich only.
should be strictly regulated.
is too risky to carry on.
Part IV Translation(30 minutes)Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30
minutes to translate a passage from Chinese should write your answer
on Answer Sheet 2.
在帮助国际社会于2030年前消除极端贫困过程中，中国正扮演着越来越重要的角色。
自2 0世纪70年代未实施改革开放以来，中国已使多达四亿人摆脱了贫困。在未来五年中，
中国将向其他发 展中国家在减少贫困、发展教育、农业现代化、环境保护和医疗保健等方面
提供援助。
中国在 减少贫困方面取得了显著进步，并在促进经济增长方面做出了不懈努力，这将鼓励其
他贫困国家应对自身 发展中的挑战。在寻求具有自身特色的发展道路时，这些国家可以借鉴
中国的经验。
2015年l2月大学英语六级考试真题答案与详解
(第3套)
Part I Writing
审题思路
这是一篇六级考试中常见的图画作文。本篇话题是“误导性信息”，题干中明确要求focus on
the harmcaused by misleading information onlin e，所以文章重点应该放在harm“危害”
这个词上面。简单描述图片之后，可以从网络信息带给我们 的好处过渡到主题词misleading
information“误导性信息”，之后重点讨论误 导性信息的严重危害，内容层层递进。在论述
时可以举例加以佐证。文章最后采用建议式的结尾方式，针 对之前提到的危害提出解决措施。
写作提纲
一、描述图片内容，并介绍图片令人关注的关键信息(the most striking feature)

三、提出建议：采取措施来防止我们被垃圾信息误导，并提出个人见解— —学习识别信息的
真实性(someeffective measures be taken，learning to identify the authenticity of
information)
范文点评

扩展内容
主题词汇 < br>convenience便利性hinder阻碍webpage网页violate违反spread传 播regulate规范judge
判断harmful impacts不利影响tell the right from the wrong辨别是非severe
consequences严重后果critical thinking批判性思考
句式拓展
with the development of society and technology，an increasing number of
problems are brought to ourattention，one of which is that?随着社会和技术的发展，
越来越多的问题日益引起我们的关注，其中一个就是??
the misleading news isn't corrected may bea trust crisis between?
and?如果误导性信息没有及时被改正，将会造成??与??之间的信任危机.
Part ⅡListening Comprehension
1.W：I Was shocked to hear of your wife’s she going to be all right?
M：A—t first,the doc—tors weren't sure,but she's really improved.一She’II be
home next week.
Q：What do we learn about the man’s wife from the conversation?
D)。未听先知.四个选项的主语均为S he，且出现了recovered，operation，critical
condition，getting much better，故推测本题考查的内容与某位女士的身体状况相关。
详解.对话中，女士说她对听说男 士的妻子生病感到十分震惊，并询问是不是好转了；男士
说最初连大夫都没把握，但现在他的妻子已经好 多了，下周就会出院：由此可知，男士妻子
的身体状况已经有了很大的好转，故答案为D)。
2.M：Excuse I get a ticket for a sleeping compartment on this train?
W： are four price is 60 pounds per person，including a confrontal
breakfast.
Q：What is the man doing?
C) 。未听先知.四个选项都是以动词的.ing形式开头，故推测本题考查的内容与动作行为相
关。 详解.对话一开头，男士就明确说要买一张火车卧铺票；女士告诉他票价为60英镑，其中包
含一顿 免费欧式早餐。可见，男士正在做的事情是购买火车票，故答案为C)。
3.M：Janet，here’s the book I borrowed from you，but I'm SO sorry that I can’t
find its jacket.
W；It doesn’t ,you are one of the few people who actually return books
to me.
Q：What does the woman imply?
A)。未听先知.四个选项中 均出现了book(S)一词，且出现了borrowers，returned，lent out
等词，故推测本题考查的内容与借书、还书相关。
详解.对话中，男士把女士的书还给 她，但对找不到书的封皮表示抱歉；女士表示没有关系，
还说，除了男士之外，几乎没有人借了她的书后 会归还。由此可知，大多数从女士那里借书
的人都没有把书还给她，故答案为A)。
4.M：Lisa，have you been to the new supermarket yet?
W：Yes，and n0.I went there last Saturday for their grand opening sale,but I drove
around the parking lot f0r nearly an h0ur,looking for a space before I finally gave
up and came home.
Q：What does the woman mean?
D)。未知先知.四个选项主语都是She，且出现了bargains，superma rket’s，parking等
词，故推测本题考查的内容与女士去超市购物相关。
详解. 对话中，男士问女士有没有去过新开的那家超市；女士先说去了，又说没去，说去了
是因为她的确在上周 六超市开业那天到了超市门口，说没去是因为她在停车场转了一个小
时，也没找到停车的地方，只好又开 走了。由此可知，女士上周六没能进到超市里面，故答
案为D)。
5.W：You’ve been sitting at the computer for ’s take a coffee break，
shall we?
M：1 wish I know,I'm up to my neck in work.I've got to finish this report.I
don't want to missthe deadline.
Q：What does the man mean?
C)。未知先知.四个选项主语都是He，且出现了both ered，report，computer，coffee break，