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2018
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 an essay on
how to academic study and
extracurricular
activities.
You should write at least
150
words but no more than
200
words.
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Part
II
Listening Comprehension
(30 minutes)
说明:
由于
2018
年
12
< br>月六级考试全国共考了
2
套听力,本套真题听力与前
p>
2
套内容完全一样,只是顺序不一
样,因此
在本套真题中不再重复出现。
Part III
Reading
Comprehension
(40 minutes)
Section A
Directions:
In this section,
there is a passage with ten blanks. You are
required to select one word for each blank from a
list
of choices given in a word bank
following the passage. Read the passage through
carefully before making your choices.
Each choice in the bank is identified
by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter
for each item on
Answer Sheet
2
with a single line through
the centre. You may not use any of the words in
the bank more than once.
Questions 26 to 35 are based on the
following passage.
In
what
’
s
probably
the
craziest
headline
I
’
ve
ever
written,
I
’
ve
reported
that
26
in
livestock
protection
are
happening with
scientists painting eyes on the butts of cows. The
experiment is based upon the idea that farmers
who
’
re
protecting
their herd from lions would shoot and kill lions
in an effort to protect their livestock. While
this makes a lot of
sense, it results
in many lion deaths that
27
would have been
unnecessary. Researchers in Australia have been
28
and
testing a method of
trickery to make lions think they are being
watched by the painted eyes on cow butts.
This idea is based on the principle
that lions and other
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are far less likely to
attack when they feel they are being
watched. As conservation areas become
smaller, lions are increasingly coming into
contact with human populations, which
are expanding to the
30
of these
protected areas.
Efforts like painting
eyes on cow butts may seem crazy at first, but
they could make actual headway in the fight for
conservation.
“
If
the method works, it could provide farmers in
Botswana
—
and
31
—
with a low-cost,
sustainable tool
to protect their
livestock, and a way to keep lions safe from being
killed.
”
Lions
are
32
< br>ambush
(埋伏)
hunters, so
when they feel their prey has
33
them, they
usually give up on the hunt.
Researchers are
34
testing their
idea on a select herd of cattle. They have painted
half of the cows with eyes and left the
other half as normal. Through satellite
tracking of both the herd and the lions in the
area, they will be able to
35
if their
psychological trickery will work to
help keep farmers from shooting lions.
A)advances
I
)
otherwise
B)boundaries
J)predators
C)challenging
K) primarily
D)currently
L
)
retorted
E)determine
M
)
spotted
F)devising
N) testimonies
G)elsewhere
O
)
wrestle
H)nevertheless
Section B
Directions:
In
this
section,
you
are
going
to
read
a
passage
with
ten
statements
attached
to
it.
Each
statement
contains
information given in one of the
paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from which the
information is derived. You may choose a
paragraph
more
than
once. Each
paragraph
is
marked with
a
letter.
Answer
the
questions
by
marking
the
corresponding
letter on
Answer Sheet 2
.
Resilience Is
About How Y
ou Recharge, Not How You
Endure
[A] As constant
travelers and parents of a 2-year-old, we
sometimes fantasize about how much work we can do
when
one of us gets on a plane,
undistracted by phones, friends, or movies. We
race to get all our ground work done: packing,
going through security, doing a last-
minute work call, calling each other, then
boarding the plane. Then, when we try to have
that amazing work session in flight, we
get nothing done. Even worse, after refreshing our
email or reading the same studies
over
and over, we are too exhausted when we land to
soldier on with
(继续处理)
the
emails that have inevitably still piled
up.
[B] Why should flying
deplete us? We
’
re just
sitting there doing nothing. Why
can
’
t we be tougher, more re
silient
(有
复原力的)
and
determined in our work so we can accomplish all of
the goals we set for ourselves? Based on our
current
research, we have come to
realize that the problem is not our hectic
schedule or the plane travel itself; the problem
comes
from a misconception of what it
means to be resilient, and the resulting impact of
overworking.
[C] We often take a
militaristic,
“
tough
< br>”
approach to resilience and
determination like a Marine pulling himself
through
the mud, a boxer going one more
round, or a football player picking himself up off
the ground for one more play. We
believe that the longer we tough it
out, the tougher we are, and therefore the more
successful we will be. However, this
entire conception is scientifically
inaccurate.
[D] The very lack of a
recovery period is dramatically holding back our
collective ability to be resilient and successful.
Research has found that there is a
direct correlation between lack of recovery and
increased incidence of health and safety
problems. And lack of
recovery
—
whether by
disrupting sleep with thoughts of work or having
continuous cognitive arousal
by
watching our phones
—
is
costing our companies $$62 billion a year in lost
productivity.
[E] And just because work
stops, it doesn
’
t mean we
are recovering. We
“
stop
”
work sometimes at 5 pm, but then we
spend the night wrestling with
solutions to work problems, talking about our work
over dinner, and falling asleep thinking
about how much work
we
’
ll do tomorrow. In a
study just released, researchers from Norway found
that 7.8% of Norwegians
have become
workaholics
(工作狂)
. The
scientists cite a definition of
“
workaholism
”
as
“
being overly concerned
about
work, driven by an uncontrollable
work motivation, and investing so much time and
effort in work that it impairs other
important life
areas.
”
[F] We
believe that the number of people who fit that
definition includes the majority of American
workers, which
prompted us to begin a
study of workaholism in the U.S.. Our study will
use a large corporate dataset from a major medical
company to examine how technology
extends our working hours and thus interferes with
necessary cognitive recovery,
resulting
in huge health care costs and turnover costs for
employers.
[G] The misconception of
resilience is often bred from an early age.
Parents trying to teach their children resilience
might celebrate a high school student
staying up until 3 am to finish a science fair
project. What a distortion of resilience! A
resilient child is a well-rested one.
When an exhausted student goes to school, he risks
hurting everyone on the road with his
impaired driving; he
doesn
’
t have the cognitive
resources to do well on his English test; he has
lower self-control with his
friends;
and at home, he is moody with his parents.
Overwork and exhaustion are the opposite of
resilience and the bad
habits we
acquire when we
’
re young
only magnify when we hit the workforce.
[H] As Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz have
written, if you have too much time in the
performance zone, you need more
time in
the recovery zone, otherwise you risk burnout.
Gathering your resources to
“
try
hard
”
requires burning
energy in
order to overcome your
currently low arousal level. It also worsens
exhaustion. Thus the more imbalanced we become due
to overworking, the more value there is
in activities that allow us to return to a state
of balance. The value of a recovery
period rises in proportion to the
amount of work required of us.
[I] So how do
we recover and build resilience? Most people
assume that if you stop doing a task like
answering emails
or writing a paper,
your brain will naturally recover, so that when
you start again later in the day or the next
morning, you
’
ll
have your energy back. But surely
everyone reading this has had times when you lie
in bed for hours, unable to fall asleep
because your brain is thinking about
work. If you lie in bed for eight hours, you may
have rested, but you can still feel
exhausted the next day.
That
’
s because rest and
recovery are not the same thing.
[J] If
you
’
re trying to build
resilience at work, you need adequate internal and
external recovery periods. As researchers
Zijlstra, Cropley and Rydstedt write in
their 2014 paper:
“
Internal
recovery refers to the shorter periods of
relaxation that
take place within the
frames of the work day or the work setting in the
form of short scheduled or unscheduled breaks, by
shifting attention or changing to other
work tasks when the mental or physical resources
required for the initial task are
temporarily depleted or exhausted.
External recovery refers to actions that take
place outside of work
—
e.g.
in the free time
between the work days,
and during weekends, holidays or
vacations.
”
If after work
you lie around on your bed and get
irritated by political commentary on
your phone or get stressed thinking about
decisions about how to renovate your home,
your brain has not received a break
from high mental arousal states. Our brains need a
rest as much as our bodies do.
[K] If
you really want to build resilience, you can start
by strategically stopping. Give yourself the
resources to be
tough by creating
internal and external recovery periods. Amy
Blankson describes how to strategically stop
during the day
by using technology to
control overworking. She suggests downloading the
Instant or Moment apps to see how many times
you turn on your phone each day. You
can also use apps like Offtime or Unplugged to
create tech free zones by strategically
scheduling automatic airplane modes.
The average person turns on their phone 150 times
every day. If every distraction
took
only 1 minute, that would account for 2.5 hours a
day.
[L]In addition, you can take a
cognitive break every 90 minutes to charge your
batteries. Try to not have lunch at your
desk, but instead spend time outside or
with your friends
—
not
talking about work. Take all of your paid time
off, which not
only gives you recovery
periods, but raises your productivity and
likelihood of promotion.
[M] As for us,
we
’
ve started using our
plane time as a work-free zone, and thus time to
dip into the recovery phase.
The
results have been fantastic. We are usually tired
already by the time we get on a plane, and the
crowded space and
unstable internet
connection make work more challenging. Now,
instead of swimming upstream, we relax, sleep,
watch
movies, or listen to music. And
when we get off the plane, instead of being
depleted, we feel recovered and ready to return
to the performance zone.
36. It has been
found that inadequate recovery often leads to poor
health and accidents.
37. Mental relaxation is much needed,
just as physical relaxation is.
38. Adequate
rest not only helps one recover, but also
increases one
’
s work
efficiency.
39.
The author always has a hectic time before taking
a flight.
40.
Recovery may not take place even if one seems to
have stopped working.
41. It is advised that technology be
used to prevent people from overworking.
42. Contrary to
popular belief, rest does not equal recovery.
43. The author
has come to see that his problem results from a
misunderstanding of the meaning of resilience.
44.
People
’
s distorted view
about resilience may have developed from their
upbringing.
45. People tend to think
the more determined they are, the greater their
success will be.
Section C
Directions:
T
here are 2 passages in this section.
Each passage is followed by some question or
unfinished statements. For
each
of
them
there
are
four
choices
marked
A),
B),
C)and
D).
You
should
decide
on
the
best
choice
and
mark
the
corresponding letter on
Answer Sheet 2
with a single
line through the centre.
Passage One
Questions 46 to 50 are based on the
following passage.
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