2018年12月大学英语六级考试真题第3套Listening Comprehension(30 minutes)特别说明六级考试每次仅考两套听力第三套听力试题同第一套或第二套试题一致Reading Comprehension(40 minutes)Section ADirections:In this section,there is a passage with ten blanks.You are required to select one word foreach blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage.Read thepassage through carefully before making your choices.Each choice in the bank is identifiedby a letter.Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with asingle line through the centre.You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.In what's probably the craziest headline I've ever written,I've reported that 26 in livestockprotection are happening with scientists painting eyes on the butts of cows.The experiment is basedupon the idea that farmers who're protecting their herd from lions would shoot and kill lions in aneffort to protect their livestock.While this makes a lot of sense,it results in many lion deaths that27 would have been unnecessary.Researchers in Australia have been 28 and testing a methodof 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 29 are far less likely to attack when theyfeel they are being watched.As conservation areas become smaller,lions are increasingly coming intocontact 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 actualheadway 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 lionssafe from being killed."Lions are 32 ambush (hunters,so when they feel their prey has 33 them,theyusually give up on the hunt.Researchers are 34 testing their idea on a select herd of cattle.Theyhave painted half of the cows with eyes and left the other half as normal.Through satellite tracking ofboth the herd and the lions in the area,they will be able to 35 if their psychological trickery willwork to help keep farmers from shooting lions.A)advancesI)otherwiseB)boundariesJ)predatorsC)challengingK)primarilyD)currentlyL)retortedE)determineM)spottedF)devisingN)testimoniesG)elsewhereO)wrestleH)neverthelessSection BDirections:In this section,you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it.Eachstatement contains information given in one of the paragraphs.Identify the paragraph fromwhich the information is derived.You may choose a paragraph more than once.Eachparagraph is marked with a letter.Answer the questions by marking the corresponding leteron 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 workwe can do when one of us gets on a plane,undistracted by phones,friends,or movies.We raceto 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 worksession in flight,we get nothing done.Even worse,after refreshing our email or reading thesame 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一more resilient(有复原力的)and determined in our work so we can accomplish all of thegoals we set for ourselves?Based on our current research,we have come to realize that theproblem is not our hectic schedule or the plane travel itself;the problem comes from amisconception 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 Marinepulling himself through the mud,a boxer going one more round,or a football player pickinghimself up off the ground for one more play.We believe that the longer we tough it out,thetougher we are,and therefore the more successful we will be.However,this entire conception isscientifically inaccurate.[D]The very lack of a recovery period is dramatically holding back our collective ability to beresilient and successful.Research has found that there is a direct correlation between lack ofrecovery and increased incidence of health and safety problems.And lack of recoverywhether by disrupting sleep with thoughts of work or having continuous cognitive arousal bywatching 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 at5pm,but then we spend the night wrestling with solutions to work problems,talking about ourwork over dinner,and falling asleep thinking about how much work we'll do tomorrow.In astudy just released,researchers from Norway found that 7.8%of Norwegians have becomeworkaholics(工作g狂).The scientists cite a definition of“workaholism”as“being overlyconcerned about work,driven by an uncontrollable work motivation,and investing so muchtime 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 Americanworkers,which prompted us to begin a study of workaholism in the U.S.Our study will use alarge corporate dataset from a major medical company to examine how technology extends ourworking hours and thus interferes with necessary cognitive recovery,resulting in huge healthcare costs and turnover costs for employers.[G]The misconception of resilience is often bred from an early age.Parents trying to teach their childrenresilience might celebrate a high school student staying up until 3am to finish a science fair project.What a distortion of resilience!A resilient child is a well-rested one.When an exhausted studentgoes to school,he risks hurting everyone on the road with his impaired driving;he doesn't have thecognitive resources to do well on his English test;he has lower self-control with his friends;and athome,he is moody with his parents.Overwork and exhaustion are the opposite of resilience andthe 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 performancezone,you need more time in the recovery zone,otherwise you risk burnout.Gathering yourresources to "try hard"requires burning energy in order to overcome your currently lowarousal level.It also worsens exhaustion.Thus the more imbalanced we become due tooverworking,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 tasklike answering emails or writing a paper,your brain will naturally recover,so that when you startagain later in the day or the next morning,you'll have your energy back.But surely everyonereading this has had times when you lie in bed for hours,unable to fall asleep because your brainis thinking about work.If you lie in bed for eight hours,you may have rested,but you can stillfeel exhausted the next day.That's because rest and recovery are not the same thing6