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2015 年 12 月英语六级真题（第 3 套）
Part I Writing(30 minutes)
Directions:
For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay
based on the picturebelow.You should focus on the harm caused by misleading
information online.You arerequired to write at least 150 words but no more than
200 words.
Part IIListening Comprehension(30 minutes)
说明：2015 年 12 月六级真题全国共考了两套听力。本套（即第三套）的听力内容与第二套
的完全一样，只是选项的顺序不一样而已，故在本套中不再重复给出。
Part III Reading Comprehension(40 minutes)
Section A
Directions:
In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are
required to select one wordfor each 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
isidentified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for
each item on AnswerSheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You
may not use any of the words in thebank more than once
.
Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.
As it is, sleep is so undervalued that getting by on fewer hours has become
a badge of honor.Plus, we live in a culture that 36 to the late-nighter, from
24-hour grocery stores to onlineshopping sites that never close.It’s no
surprise, then, that more than half of American adults don’t getthe 7 to 9
hours of shut-eye every night as 3 7 by sleep experts.
Whether or not we can catch up on sleep—on the weekend, say—is a hotly
3 8 topic amongsleep researchers.The latest evidence suggests that while it
isn’t 3 9 , it might help.When Liu, theUCLA sleep researcher and professor of
medicine, brought40sleep-restricted people into the labfor a weekend of sleep
during which they logged about 10 hours per night, they showed41in theability
of
insulin
(胰 岛素) to process blood sugar.That suggests that catch-up sleep
may undo somebut not all of the damage that sleep42causes, which is
encouraging, given how many adults don’tget the hours they need each
night.Still, Liu isn’t43to endorse the habit of sleeping less andmaking up for
it later.
Sleeping pills, while helpful for some, are not44an effective remedy
either.“A sleeping pillwill45one area of the brain, but there’s never going
to be a perfect sleeping pill, because youcouldn’t really
replicate
(复制) the
different chemicals moving in and out of different parts of the brainto go
through the different stages of sleep,” says Dr.Nancy Collop, director of the
Emory UniversitySleep Center.
A) alternatively I) negotiated
B) caters J) pierce
C) chronically K) presumption
D) debated L) ready
E) deprivation M) recommended
F) ideal N) surpasses
G) improvements O) target
H) necessarily
Section B
Directions:
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 paragraphfrom which the information is
derived. You may choose a paragraph more than once.Each paragraph is
marked with aletter.Answer the questions by marking thecorresponding
letter on Answer Sheet2.
Climate Change May Be Real, But It’s Still Not Easy Being Green
How do we convince our inner caveman to be greener? We ask some outstanding
social scientists.
[A] The road to climate hell is paved with our good intentions.Politicians may
tackle polluters whilescientists do battle with carbon emissions.But the most
pervasive problem is less obvious: ourown behaviour.We get distracted before we
can turn down the heating.We break our promise notto fly after hearing about a
neighbour’s trip to India.Ultimately, we can’t be bothered to changeour
attitude.Fortunately for the planet, social science and behavioural economics
may be able todo that for us.
[B] Despite mournful polar beats and charts showing carbon emissions soaring,
most people find ithard to believe that global warming will affect them
personally.Recent polls by the Pew ResearchCentre in Washington, DC, found that
75-80 per cent of participants regarded climate change as animportant issue.But
respondents ranked it last on a list of priorities.
[C] This inconsistency largely stems from a feeling of powerlessness.“When we
can’t actually removethe source of our fear, we tend to adapt psychologically
by adopting a range of defencemechanisms,” says Tom Crompton, change
strategist for the environmental organisation WorldWide Fund for Nature.
[D] Part of the fault lies with our inner caveman.Evolution has programmed
humans to pay mostattention to issues that will have an immediate impact.“We
worry most about now because if wedon’t survive for the next minute, we’re
not going to be around in ten years’ time,” says ProfessorElke Weber of the
Centre for Research on Environmental Decisions at Columbia University in
NewYork.If the Thames were lapping around Big Ben, Londoners would face up to
the problem ofemissions pretty quickly.But in practice, our brain discounts the
risks—and benefits—associated with issues that lie some way ahead.
[E] Matthew Rushworth, of the Department of Experimental Psychology at the
University of Oxford,sees this in his lab every day.“One of the ways in which
all agents seem to make decisions is thatthey assign a lower weighting to
outcomes that are going to be further away in the future,” hesays.“This is a
very sensible way for an animal to make decisions in the wild and would
havebeen very helpful for humans for thousands of years.”
[F] Not any longer.By the time we wake up to the threat posed by climate
change, it could well betoo late.And if we’re not going to make rational
decisions about the future, others may have tohelp us to do so.
[G] Few political libraries are without a copy of
Nudge: Improving Decisions
About Health, Wealthand Happiness
, by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein.They
argue that governments shouldpersuade us into making better decisions—such as
saving more in our pension plans—by changingthe default options.Professor
Weber believes that environmental policy can make use of similartactics.If, for
example, building codes included green construction guidelines, most
developerswould be too lazy to challenge them.
[H] Defaults are certainly part of the solution.But social scientists are most
concerned about craftingmessages that exploit our group
mentality
(心态).“We
need to understand what motivatespeople, what it is that allows them to make
change,” says Professor Neil Adger, of the TyndallCentre for Climate Change
Research in Norwich.“It is actually about what their peers think ofthem, what
their social norms are, what is seen as desirable in society.” In other words,
ourinner caveman is continually looking over his shoulder to see what the rest
of the tribe are up to.
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