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1、2018年12月大学英语六级考试真题（第 2套）Part IWriti ng(30mi nutes)Directions:For this part, you are allowed 30 minu tes to write an essay onhow tobalanee job responsibilitiesand personal interests. You should write at least 150Liste ning Comprehe nsionwords but no more tha n 200 words.Part II (30 min utes)Section A
2、Directions:In this sect ion,you will hear two long con versatio nsAt the end of eachconversation,you will hear four questions.Both the conversationand the questionswill be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). The
3、n mark the corresponding letteron An swer Sheet 1 with a si ngle line through the cen tre.Questions1 to 4 are based on the conversation you have just heard.B)Keep away from the statue.D)Put on a smile for the photo.B)Publishinga collectionof hisD)Beco ming a professi onal1. A)Stop worryi ng about hi
4、m.C) Take a picture of him.2. A)Gaining great fame on the Internet. photos.C)Collect ing the best photos in the world. photographer.3. A)Surfi ng various websites and collecti ng photos.B) Edit ing his pictures and post ing them on li ne.C) Follow ing similar acco unts to compare no tes.D) Study ing
5、 the pictures in popular social media.4. A)They are far from satisfactory.B) They are mostly take n by her mom.C) They make an impressive album.D) They record her fond memories.Questi ons 5 to 8 are based on the con versati on you have just heard.5. A)A journal report ing the latest progress in phys
6、ics.B) A n in troductory course of moder n physics.C) An occasi on for physicists to excha nge ideas.D) A series of in terviews with outsta nding physicists.B)The origi n of the uni verse.D)Particle theory.B)Whether the uni verse will turn6. A)The future of the physical world.C)Sources of radiati on
7、.7. A)How matter collides with an ti-matter.barren.C)Why there exists anti-matter. D)Whythere is a universe at all.8. A)Matter and anti-matter are opposites of each other.B) Anti-matter allowed humans to come into existence.C) The universe formed due to a sufficient amount of matter.D) Anti-matter e
8、xists in very high-temperature environments.Section BDirections: In this section, you will hear two passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear three or four questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer fro
9、m the four choices marked A), B), C)and D). Then mark the corresponding letter onAnswer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.Questions 9 to 11 are based on the passage you have just heard.9. A)She found herself speaking a foreign language.B) She woke up speaking with a different accent.C) S
10、he found some symptoms of her illness gone.D) She woke up finding herself in another country.10. A)It is usually caused by a stroke or brain injury.B) It has not yet found any effective treatment.C) It leaves the patient with a distorted memory.D)It often happens to people with speech defects.11. A)
11、British. B)Irish. C)Russian.D)Australian.Questions 12 to 15 are based on the passage you have just heard.12. A)Water sports.B)Racing in rivers.C)Stories about women swimmers.D)Books about swimming.13. A)She succeeded in swimming across the English Channel.B) She published a guide to London' s be
12、st swimming spots.C) She told her story of adventures to some young swimmers.D) She wrote a book about the history of swimwear in the UK.14. A)They loved vacationing on the seashore.B) They had a unique notion of modesty.C) They were prohibited from swimming.D) They were fully dressed when swimming.
13、15. A)She designed lots of appropriate swimwear for women.B) She once successfully competed against men in swimming.C) She was the first woman to swim across the English Channel.D) She was an advocate of women ' s right to swim in public pools.Section CDirections: In this section, you will hear
14、three recordings of lectures or talks followed by three or four questions. The recordings will be played only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices markedA) , B), C)and D).Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through
15、 the centre.Questions 16 to 18 are based on the recording you have just heard.16. A)Build a machine that can detect lies.B) Develop a magnetic brain scanner.C) Test the credibility of court evidence.D)Win people ' s complete trust in them.17. A)They are optimistic about its potential.B) They are
16、 sceptical of its reliability.C) They think it is but business promotion.D) They celebrate it with great enthusiasm.18. A)It is not to be trusted at all.B) It does not sound economical.C) It may intrude into people' s privacy.D) It may lead to overuse in court trials.Questions 19 to 21 are based
17、 on the recording you have just heard.19. A)Most of its residents speak several languages.B) Some of its indigenous languages are dying out.C) Each village there speaks a totally different language.D) Its languages have interested researchers the world over.20. A)They are spread randomly across the
18、world.B) Some are more difficult to learn than others.C) More are found in tropical regions than in the mild zones.D) They enrich and impact each other in more ways than one.21. A)They used different methods to collect and analyze data.B) They identified distinct patterns of language distribution.C)
19、 Their conclusions do not correspond to their original hypotheses.D) There is no conclusive account for the cause of language diversity.Questions 22 to 25 are based on the recording you have just heard.22. A)Its middle-class is disappearing.B) Its wealth is rationally distributed.C) Its population i
20、s rapidly growing.D) Its cherished dream is coming true.23. A)Success was but a dream without conscientious effort.B)They could realize their dreams through hard work.C)A few dollars could go a long way.D) Wealth was shared by all citizens.24. A)Better working conditions. B)Better-paying jobs.C)High
21、 social status.D) Full employment.25. A)Reduce the administrative costs.B) Adopt effective bus in ess models.C) Hire part-time employees only.D) Make use of the latest tech no logy.Part IIIRead ing Comprehe nsion(40 min utes)Section ADirections:In this sect ion, there is a passage with ten bla nks.
22、You are requiredto 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 bya letter. Please mark the corresponding letterfor each item onAnswer Sheet 2 wit
23、h a single line through the centre. You maynot use any of the words in the bank more tha n once.Questio ns 26 to 35 are based on the follow ing passage.Surfing the Internet duri ng class does n't just steal focus from the educator;it also hurts stude nts who're already struggli ng to 26 the
24、material. A newstudy from Michiga n State Uni versity, though, argues that all stude nts in cludi nghigh achievers see a decli ne in performa nee whe n they browse the Internet duri ngclass for non-academic purposes.To measure the effects of Intern et-baseddistract ionsduri ng class, researchers2750
25、0 stude nts tak ing an in troductory psychology class at Michiga n StateUni versity. Researchers used ACT scores as a measure of in tellectual 28 .Because previous research has show n that people with high in tellectual abilities are better at 29 out distract ions, researchers believed stude nts wit
26、h highACT scores would not show a 30 decrease in performa nee due to their use of digital devices. But stude nts who surfed the web duri ng class did worse on their exams regardless of their ACTscores, suggesting that even the academically smartest stude nts are harmed whe n they're distracted i
27、n class.College professors are in creas in gly 31 alarm bells about the effectssmartpho nes, laptops, and tablets have on academic performa nee. One 2013 study of college students found that 80%of students use their phones or laptops during class,device 11 times in a 32 class. digital devices duri n
28、g class causeswith the average student checking their digitalA quarter of stude nts report that their use of their grades to 33 .Professors sometimes implement policies designed to 34 students'use ofdigital devices, and some instructors even confiscate (没收)tablets and phones.In a world where peo
29、ple are in creas in gly depe ndent on their phon es, though, such strategies often fail. One international study found that 84% of people say they could n't go a day without their smartph on es. Un til stude nts are able to 35 the pull of social networking, texting, and endlessly surfing the web
30、, they may continue to struggle in their classes.A) aptitudeI ) obscureB) eradicati onJ)obsessC) evaluatedK)raisi ngD) evaporatedL ) resistE) filteri ngM significantF) graspN) sufferG) legacyO ) typicalH) mi ni mizeSection BDirections:In this sect ion, you are going to read a passage with ten statem
31、e ntsattached to it. Each statement contains informationgiven 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 onAnswer Sh
32、eet 2 .A Pion eeri ng Woma n of Science Re-Emerges after 300 YearsA Maria Sibylla Merian, likemany European women of the 17th century,stayedbusy managing a household and rearing children. But on top of that, Merian, aGerma n-bor n woma n who lived in the Netherla nds, also man aged a successful care
33、er as an artist, bota ni st, n aturalist and en tomologist(昆虫学家)B “ She was a scientist on the level with a lot of people we spend a lot of time talking about, ” said Kay Etheridge, a biologist at Gettysburg College inPennsylvania who has been studying the scientific history of Merian ' s work.
34、“ She did n't do as much to cha nge biology as Charles Darwin, but she was sig ni fica nt.”C At a time when natural history was a valuable tool for discovery, Merian discovered facts about pla nts and in sects that were not previously known. Her observati ons helped dismiss the popular belief th
35、at in sects spontan eously emergedfrom mud. The kno wledge she collected over decades did n't just satisfy those curious about n ature, but also provided valuable in sights into medici ne and scie nee. She was the first to bring together in sectsand their habitats,in cludi ngfood they ate,into a
36、 sin gle ecological compositi on.D After years of pleas ing a fasci nated audie nee across Europe with books of detailed descripti ons and life-size pain ti ngs of familiar in sects, in 1699 shesailed with her daughter n early 5,000 miles from the Netherla nds to South America to study insects in th
37、e jungles of what is now known as Suriname. She was 52 years old. The result was her masterpiece, Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium.E In her work, she revealed a side of nature so exotic, dramatic and valuable to Europeans of the time that she received much acclaim. But a century later, her fin
38、dings cameunder scientific criticism. Shoddy （粗糙的） reproductions of her work along with setbacks to women's roles in 18th- and 19th-century Europe resulted in her efforts being lar gely forgotten.“It was kind of stunning when she sort ofdropped off into oblivion（遗忘）,” said Dr. Etheridge.“Victori
39、ans startedputting women in a box, and they're still trying to crawl out of it. ”F Today, the pioneering womanof the sciences has re-emerged. In recent years, feminists, historians and artists have all praised Merian's tenacity （坚韧）, talent and inspirational artistic compositions. And now bi
40、ologists like Dr. Etheridge are digging into the scientific texts that accompanied her art. Three hundred years after her death, Merian will be celebrated at an international symposium in Amsterdam this June.G And last month, Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium was republished. It contains 60 pla
41、tes （插图） and original descriptions, along with stories about Merian's life and updated scientific descriptions. Before writing Metamorphosis, Merian spent decades documenting European plants and insects that she published in a series of books. She began in her 20s, making textless, decorative pa
42、intings of flowers with insects.“Then she got really serious,” Dr. Etheridge said. Merianstarted raising insects at home, mostly butterflies and caterpillars.“She wouldsit up all night until they came out of the pupa（蛹） so she could draw them, ”she said.H The results of her decades' worth of car
43、eful observations were detailed paintings and descriptions of European insects, followed by unconventional visuals and stories of insects and animals from a land that most at the time could only imagine. It's possible Merian used a magnifying glass to capture the detail of the split tongues of s
44、phinx moths （斯芬克斯飞蛾） depicted in the painting. She wrote that the two tongues combine to form one tube for drinking nectar （花蜜） . Somecriticized this detail later, saying there was just one tongue, but Merian wasn't wrong. She may have observed the adult moth just as it emerged from its pupa. Fo
45、r a brief moment during that stage of its life cycle, the tongue consists of two tiny half-tubes before merging into one.I It maynot have been ladylike to depict a giant spider devouring a hummingbird, but when Merian did it at the turn of the 18th century, surprisingly, nobody objected. Dr. Etherid
46、ge called it revolutionary. The image, which also contained novel descriptions of ants, fascinated a European audience that was more concerned with the exotic story unfolding before them than the gender of the person who painted it.J “All of these things shook up their nice, neat little view, ” Dr.
47、Etheridge said. But later, people of the Victorian era thought differently. Her work had been reproduced, sometimes incorrectly. A few observations were deemed impossible.“ She'd been called a silly woman for saying that a spider could eat a bird,” Dr.Etheridge said. But Henry Walter Bates, a fr
48、iend of Charles Darwin, observed it and put it in book in 1863, proving Merian was correct.K In the same plate, Merian depicted and described leaf-cutter ants for the first time. “ In Ameri ca there are large ants which can eat whole trees bare as a broom handle in a single night,” she wrote in the description. Merian noted howthe ants took the leaves below ground to their young. And she wouldn't have known this at the time, but the ants use the leaves to farm fungi（菌类） undergroundto feed their developing