2018年12月大学英语六级考试真题(第3套)及答案解析.pdf

2018 年年 12 月大学英语六级考试真题（第月大学英语六级考试真题（第 3 套）套）Part IWriting(30 minutes)Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay on how to balance work and leisure. You shouldwrite at least 150 words but no more than 200 words._Part IIListening Comprehension(30 minutes)说明：由于 2018 年 12 月六级考试全国共考了 2 套听力，本套真题听力与前 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 IIIReading Comprehension(40 minutes)SectionADirections: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a listof 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 onAnswer Sheet 2with 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 whats probably the craziest headline Ive ever written, Ive reported that26in livestock protection arehappening with scientists painting eyes on the butts of cows. The experiment is based upon the idea that farmers whoreprotecting their herd from lions would shoot and kill lions in an effort to protect their livestock. While this makes a lot ofsense, it results in many lion deaths that27would have been unnecessary. Researchers in Australia have been28andtesting 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 other29are far less likely to attack when they feel they are beingwatched. As conservation areas become smaller, lions are increasingly coming into contact with human populations, whichare expanding to the30of these protected areas.Efforts like painting eyes on cow butts may seem crazy at first, but they could make actual headway in the fight forconservation. “If the method works, it could provide farmers in Botswanaand31with a low-cost, sustainable toolto protect their livestock, and a way to keep lions safe from being killed.”Lions are32ambush （埋伏） hunters, so when they feel their prey has33them, they usually give up on the hunt.Researchers are34testing their idea on a select herd of cattle. They have painted half of the cows with eyes and left theother half as normal. Through satellite tracking of both the herd and the lions in the area, they will be able to35if theirpsychological trickery will work to help keep farmers from shooting lions.A)advancesI）otherwiseB)boundariesJ)predatorsC)challengingK) primarilyD)currentlyL）retortedE)determineM）spottedF)devisingN) testimoniesG)elsewhereO）wrestleH)nevertheless- 1 -Section BDirections: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Each statement containsinformation given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from which the information is derived. You may choose aparagraph more than once. Each paragraph is marked with a letter. Answer the questions by marking the correspondingletter onAnswer Sheet 2.Resilience IsAbout How You Recharge, Not How You EndureAAs constant travelers and parents of a 2-year-old, we sometimes fantasize about how much work we can do whenone 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 havethat amazing work session in flight, we get nothing done. Even worse, after refreshing our email or reading the same studiesover and over, we are too exhausted when we land to soldier on with（继续处理）the emails that have inevitably still piledup.B Why should flying deplete us? Were just sitting there doing nothing. Why cant we be tougher, more resilient（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 currentresearch, we have come to realize that the problem is not our hectic schedule or the plane travel itself; the problem comesfrom 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 himself throughthe mud, a boxer going one more round, or a football player picking himself up off the ground for one more play. Webelieve that the longer we tough it out, the tougher we are, and therefore the more successful we will be. However, thisentire 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 safetyproblems.And lack of recoverywhether by disrupting sleep with thoughts of work or having continuous cognitive arousalby watching our phonesis costing our companies $62 billion a year in lost productivity.EAn。