2019年12月英语六级真题答案第三套

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2019 年 12 月英语六级真题及答案(第三套)

Part Ⅰ Writing (30 minutes)

　　Directions:For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay

on the importance of having a sense of community responsibility. You should

write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.

Part Ⅱ Listening Comprehension (25 minutes)

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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 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 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.

　　The number of devices you can talk to is multiplying—first it was your

phone, then your car, and now you can tell your kitchen appliances what to do.

But even without gadgets that understand our spoken commands, research suggests

that, as bizarre as it sounds, under certain 26 , people regularly ascribe

human traits to everyday objects.

　　Sometimes we see things as human because we are 27 . In one experiment,

people who reported feeling isolated were more likely than others to attribute

28 to various gadgets. In turn, feeling close to objects can 29 loneliness.

When college students were reminded of a time they had been 30 in a social

setting, they compensated by exaggerating their number of friends—unless they

were first given tasks that caused them to interact with their phone as if it

had human qualities. According to the researchers, the participants' phones 31

substituted for real friends.

　　At other times, we personify products in an effort to understand them.

One study found that three in four respondents yelled at their computer.

Further, the more their computer gave them problems, the more likely the

respondents were to report that it had its own “beliefs and 32 .”

　　So how do people assign traits to an object? In part, we rely on looks.

On humans, wide faces are 33 with dominance. Similarly, people rated cars,

clocks, and watches with wide faces as more dominant-looking than narrow-faced

ones, and preferred them—especially in 34 situations. An analysis of car sales

in Germany found that cars with gills ( 护栅 ) that were upturned like smiles

sold best. The purchasers saw this 35 as increasing a car's friendliness.

　　A) alleviate

　　B) apparently

　　C) arrogant

　D) associated

　　E) circumstances

　　F) competitive

　　G) conceded

　　H) consciousness

　　I) desires

　　J) excluded

　　K) feature

　　L) lonely

　　M) separate

　　N) spectacularly

　　O) warrant

　　Section B

　　 Directions: 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 marking the corresponding letter on Answer

Sheet 2.

　　 [A] Though he didn’t come from a farming family, from a young age Tim

Joseph was fascinated by the idea of living off the land. Reading magazines

like The Stockman Grass Farmer and Graze, he got hooked on the idea of grass-

fed agriculture. The idea that all energy and wealth comes from the sun really

intrigued him He thought the shorter the distance between the sun and the end

product, the higher the profit to the farmer.

　　[B] Joseph wanted to put this theory to the test. In 2009, he and his wife

Laura launched Maple Hill Creamery, an organic, all grass-fed yogurt company in

northern New York. He quickly learned what the market has demonstrated: Demand

for grass-fed products currently exceeds supply. Grass-fed beef is enjoying a

25-30% annual growth rate. Sales of grass-fed yogurt and kefir (发酵乳饮品) on

the other hand, have in the last year increased by over 38%. This is in

comparison with a drop of just under 1% in the total yogurt and kefir market

according to natural and organic market research company SPINS. Joseph’s top

priority became getting his hands on enough grass-fed milk to keep customers

satisfied, since his own 64-cow herd wasn’t going to suffice

　　[C] His first partnership was with Paul and Phyllis Amburgh, owners of the

Dharma Lea farm in New York. The Amburghs, too, were true believers in grass-

fed. In addition to supplying milk from their own 85-head herd, they began to

help other farmers in the area convent from conventional to certified organic

and grass-fed in order to enter the Maple Hill supply chain. Since 2010, the

couple has helped 125 small dairy farms convert to grass-fed, with more than

80% of those farms coming on board during the last two years.

　　[D] All this conversion has helped Maple Hill grow 40-50% every year since

it began with no end in sight. Joseph has learned that a farmer has to have a

certain mindset to successfully convert. But convincing open-minded dairy

people is actually not that hard, when you look at the economics. Grass-fed

milk can fetch up to 2.5 times the price of conventional milk. Another factor

is the squeeze that conventional dairy farmers have felt as the price of grain

they feed their cows has gone up, tightening their profit margins. By replacing

expensive grain feed with regenerative management practices, grass-fed farmers

are insulated from jumps in the price of feed. These practices include grazing

animals on grasses grown from the pastureland’s natural seed bunk, and

fertilized by the cows’ own fertilizer

　　[E] Champions of this type of regenerative grazing also point to its animal

welfare, climate and health benefits: Grass-fed animals live longer out of

confinement. Grazing herds stimulate microbial (微生物的) activity in the soil,

helping to capture water and separate carbon. And grass-fed dairy and meat have

been shown to be higher in certain nutrients and healthy fats.

　　 [F] In the grass fed system, farmers are also not subject to the wildly

fluctuating milk prices of the international commodity market. The

unpredictability of global demand and the lag-time it takes to add more cows to

a herd to meet demand can result in events like the recent cheese surplus.

Going grass-fed is a safe refuge, a way for family-scale farms to stay viable.

Usually a farmer will get to the point where financially, what they’re doing

is not working. That’s when they call Maple Hill. If the farm is well managed

and has enough land, and the desire to convert is sincere, a relationship can

begin. Through regular regional educational meetings, a large annual meeting,

individual farm visits and thousands of phone calls, the Amburghs pass on the

principles of pasture management. Maple Hill signs a contract pledging to buy

the farmer’s milk at a guaranteed base price, plus quality premiums and

incentives for higher protein, butter fat and other solids.

　　 [G] While Maple Hill's conversion program is unusually hands on and

comprehensive, it’s just one of a growing number of businesses committed to

slowly changing the way America farms. Joseph calls sharing his knowledge

network through peer-to-peer learning a core piece of the company’s culture.

Last summer, Massachusetts grass-fed beef advocate John Smith launched Big

Picture Beef, a network of small grass-fed beef farms in New England and New

York that is projected to bring to market 2,500 head of cattle from 125

producers this year. Early indications are that Smith will have no shortage of

farm members. Since he began to informally announce the network at farming

conferences and on social media, he’s received a steady stream of inquiries

from interested farmers.

　　[H] Smith says he’ll provide services ranging from formal seminars to on-

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