2018年12月大学英语六级考试真题piece及参考答案
Part I Writing (30 minutes)
For this part， you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay on how to balance academic study and extracurricular activities. You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words。substring
Part valveⅢ Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)
Section A
脸部美白的方法Directions: In this ction, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to lect 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. Plea mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not u any of the words in the bank more than once.
Questions 26 to 35 are bad 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 bad 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 n, it results in many lion deaths that 27 would have been unnecessary. Rearchers 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.
giveprioritytolakThis idea is bad on the principle that lions and other 29 are far less likely to attack when they feel they are being watched. As conrvation areas become smaller, lions are increasingly coming into contact with human populations, which are expanding to the 30 of the protected areas.
Efforts like painting eyes on cow butts may em crazy at first, but they could make actual headway in the fight for conrvation. “If the method works, it could provide farmer
s 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 ambush（埋伏）hunters, so when they feel their prey has 33 them, they usually give up on the hunt. Rearchers are 34 testing their idea on a lect 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.
allegorical
Section B
Directions:bate In this ction, 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 choo 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 You 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 curity, doing a last-minute work call, calling each other, then boarding the plane. Then, when we try to have that amazing work ssion in flight, we get nothing done. Even wor, 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 resilient（有复原力的） and determined in our work so we can accomplish all of the goals we t for ourlves? Bad on our current rearch, we have come to realize that the problem is not our hectic schedule or the plane travel itlf; 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” approach to resilience and determination like a Marine pulling himlf through the mud, a boxer going one more round, or a football player picking himlf 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. Rearch has found that there is a direct correlation between lack of recovery and incread incidence of health and safety problems. And lack of reco
very —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.
