2014年12月英语六级真题及答案(含听力原文)第三套

2014年12月大学英语六级考试真题(三)Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay based on the picture below. You should start your essay with a brief description of the picture and then discuss what qualities an employer should look for in job applicants. You should give sound arguments to support your views and write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。说明：2014年12月大学英语六级真题全国共考了两套听力。本套（即第三套）的听力材料与第一套完全一样，只是选项的顺序不同而已，故本套不再重复给出。Section CDirections: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time,you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks with the exact words you have just heard. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。 If you're like most people, you've indulged in fake listening many times. You go to history class, sit in the third row, and look squarely at the instructor as she speaks. But your mind is far away,26inthe clouds of pleasant daydreams. Occasionally you come back to earth: The instructor writes an important term on the chalkboard, and you 27copy it in your notebook. Every once in a while the instructor makes a 28remark, causing others in the class to laugh. You smile politely, pretending that you've heard the remark and found it mildly humorous. You have a vague sense of 29that you aren't paying close attention, but you tell yourself that any material you miss can 30from a friend's notes. Besides, the instructor's talking about road 31in ancient Rome, and nothing could be more boring. So back you go into your private little world. Only later do you realize you've missed important information for a test. Fake listening may be easily exposed, since many speakers 32facial cues and can tell if you're merely pretending to listen. Your blank expression and the faraway look in your eyes are the cues that33your inattentiveness. Even if you're not exposed, there's another reason to avoid fakery: It's easy for this34tobecome a habit. For some people, the habit is so deeply rooted that they automatically start day dreaming when a speaker begins talking on something35or uninteresting. As a result, they miss lots of valuable information.Part Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)Section ADirections: 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 center. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage. It was 10 years ago, on a warm July night, that a newborn lamb took her first breath in a small shedin Scotland. From the outside, she looked no different from thousands of other sheep born on 36farms. But Dolly, as the world soon came to realize, was no 37lamb. She was cloned from a single cell of an adult female sheep,38long-held scientific dogma that had declared such a thing biologically impossible. A decade later, scientists are starting to come to grips with just how different Dolly was. Dozens of animals have been cloned since that first lamb_mice, cats, cows and, most recently, a dog-and it's becoming 39clear that they are all, in one way or another, defective. It's 40to think of clones as perfect carbon copies of the original. It turns out, though, that there are various degrees of genetic41. That may come as a shock to people who have paid thousands of dollars to clone a pet cat only to discover that the baby cat looks and behaves 42liketheir beloved pet-with a different-color coat of fur, perhaps, or a 43different attitude toward its human hosts. And these are just the obvious differences. Not only are clones 44from the original template(模板) by time, but they are also the product of an unnatural molecular mechanism that turns out not to be very good at making 45copies. In fact, the process can embed small flaws in the genes of clones that scientists are only now discovering注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。Aabstract F. identical Koverturning Bcompletely.G. increasinglyL separatedCdeserted HminiatureM surroundingD. duplicationINothingN systematically.E. everythingJ. ordinary O temptingSection BDirections: 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 marki