1、Part II Listening Comprehension(30 minutes)Section A Directions:In this section,you will hear two long conversations.At the end of each conversation,youwill hear four questions.Both the conversation and the question will be spoken only once.After you hear a question,you must choose the best answer f
2、rom the four choices markedA),B),C)and D).Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with asingle line through the centre.Questions 1 to 4 are based on the conversation you have just heard.1.A)Magazine reporter.C)Website designer.B)Fashion designer.D)Features editor.2.A)Designing sports cl
3、othing.C)Answering daily emails.B)Consulting fashion experts.D)Interviewing job-seekers.3.A)It is challenging.C)It is tiresome.B)It is fascinating.D)It is fashionable.4.A)Her persistence.C)Her competence.B)Her experience.D)Her confidence.Questions 5 to 8 are based on the conversation you have just h
4、eard.5.A)It is enjoyable.B)It is educational.C)It is divorced from real life.D)It is adapted from a drama.6.A)All the roles are played by famous actors and actresses.B)It is based on the real-life experiences of some celebrities.C)Its plots and events reveal a lot about Frankies actual life.D)It is
5、written,directed,edited and produced by Frankie himself.7.A)Go to the theater and enjoy it.B)Recommend it to her friends.C)Watch it with the man.D)Download and watch it.2019年12月英语六级考试试题第1套2019年12月英语六级考试试题第1套第 112页8.A)It has drawn criticisms from scientists.B)It has been showing for over a decade.C)I
6、t is a ridiculous piece of satire.D)It is against common sense.Section B Directions:In this section,you will hear two passages.At the end o f each passage,you will hear threeor f our questions.Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once.After you hear a question,you must choose the b
7、est answer from the four choices marked A),B),C)and D).Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single linethrough the centre.Questions 9 to 11 are based on the passage you have just heard.9.A)They are likely to get injured when moving too fast.B)They believe in team spirit for go
8、od performance.C)They need to keep moving to avoid getting hurt.D)They have to learn how to avoid body contact.10.A)They do not have many years to live after retirement.B)They tend to live a longer life with early retirement.C)They do not start enjoying life until full retirement.D)They keep themsel
9、ves busy even after retirement.11.A)It prevents us from worrying.B)It slows down our aging process.C)It enables us to accomplish more in life.D)It provides us with more chances to learn.Questions 12 to 15 are based on the passage you have just heard.12.A)It tends to dwell upon their joyous experienc
10、es.B)It wanders for almost half of their waking time.C)It has trouble concentrating after a brain injury.D)It tends to be affected by their negative feelings.13.A)To find how happiness relates to daydreaming.B)To observe how ones mind affects ones behavior.C)To see why daydreaming impacts what one i
11、s doing.D)To study the relation between health and daydreaming.第 212页14.A)It helps them make good decisions.B)It helps them tap their potentials.C)It contributes to their creativity.D)It contributes to clear thinking.15.A)Subjects with clear goals in mind outperformed those without clear goals.B)The
12、 difference in performance between the two groups was insignificant.C)Non-daydreamers were more focused on their tasks than daydreamers.D)Daydreamers did better than non-daydreamers in task performance.Section C Directions:In this section,you will hear three recordings of lectures or talks followed
13、by three or fourquestions.The recordings will be played only once.After you hear a question,you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A),B),C)and D).Then mark thecorresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.Questions 16 to 18 are based on the record
14、ing you have just heard.16.A)They are the oldest buildings in Europe.B)They are part of the Christian tradition.C)They are renovated to attract tourists.D)They are in worsening condition.17.A)They have a history of 14 centuries.B)They are 40 metres tall on average.C)They are without foundations.D)Th
15、ey consist of several storeys.18.A)Wood was harmonious with nature.B)Wooden buildings kept the cold out.C)Timber was abundant in Scandinavia.D)The Vikings liked wooden structures.Questions 19 to 21 are based on the recording you have just heard.19.A)Similarities between human babies and baby animals
16、.B)Cognitive features of different newly born mammals.C)Adults influence on children.D)Abilities of human babies.第 312页20.A)They can distinguish a happy tune from a sad one.B)They love happy melodies more than sad ones.C)They fall asleep easily while listening to music.D)They are already sensitive t
17、o beats and rhythms.21.A)Infants facial expressions.B)Babies emotions.C)Babies interaction with adults.D)Infants behaviors.Questions 22 to 25 are based on the recording you have just heard.22.A)It may harm the culture of todays workplace.B)It may hinder individual career advancement.C)It may result
18、in unwillingness to take risks.D)It may put too much pressure on team members.23.A)They can hardly give expression to their original views.B)They can become less motivated to do projects of their own.C)They may find it hard to get their contributions recognized.D)They may eventually lose their confi
19、dence and creativity.24.A)They can enlarge their professional circle.B)They can get chances to engage in research.C)They can make the best use of their expertise.D)They can complete the project more easily.25.A)It may cause lots of arguments in a team.B)It may prevent making a timely decision.C)It m
20、ay give rise to a lot of unnecessary expenses.D)It may deprive a team of business opportunities.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 foreach blank from a list o f choices given in a word
21、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
22、 once.第 412页When considering risk factors associated with senous chronic diseases,we often think about health indicators such as cholesterol,blood pressure,and body weight.But poor diet and physical inactivity also each increase the risk of heart disease and have a role to play in the development of
23、 some cancers.Perhaps worse,the 26 effects of an unhealthy diet and insufficient exercise are not limited to your body.Recent research has also shown that 27 in a high-fat and high-sugar diet may have negative effects on your brain,causing learning and memory 28 Studies have found obesity is associa
24、ted with impainnents in cognitive functioning,as 29 by a range of learning and memory tests,such as the ability to remember a list of words presented some minutes or hours earlier.There is also a growing body of evidence that diet-induced cognitive impainnents can emerge 30-within weeks or even days
25、.For example,one study found healthy adults 31 to a high-fat diet for five days showed impaired attention,memory,and mood compared with a low-fat diet control group.Another study also found eating a high-fat and highsugar breakfast each day for as little as four days resulted in problems with learni
26、ng and memory 32 to those observed in overweight and obese individuals.Body weight was not hugely different between the groups eating a healthy diet and those on high fat and sugar diets.So this shows negative 33 of poor dietary intake can occur even when body weight has not changed 34.Thus,body wei
27、ght is not always the best indicator of health and a thin person still needs to eat well and exercise 35 A)assessedI)excellingB)assignedJ)indulgingC)consequencesK)loopholesD)conspicuouslyL)rapidlyE)deficitsM)redundantF)designatedN)regularlyG)detrimental0)similarH)digestionSection B Directions:In thi
28、s section,you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it.Eachstatement contains information given in one of the paragraphs.Identif y 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 que
29、stions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.Increased Screen Time and Wellbeing Decline in Youth A Have young people never had it so good?Or do they face more challenges than any previous generation?Our current era in the West is one of high wealth.This means minors enjoy material 第
30、 512页benefits and legal protections that would have been the envy of those living in the past.But there is an increasing suspicion that all is not well for our youth.And one of the most popular explanations,among some experts and the popular media,is that excessive screen time is to blame.(This refe
31、rs to all the attention young people devote to their phones,tablets and laptops.)However,this is a contentious theory and such claims have been treated skeptically by some scholars based on their reading of the relevant data.B Now a new study has provided another contribution to the debate,uncoverin
32、g strong evidence that adolescent wellbeing in the United States really is experiencing a decline and arguing that the most likely cause is the electronic riches we have given them.The background to this is that from the 1960s into the early 2000s,measures of average wellbeing went up in the US.This
33、 was especially true for younger people.It reflected the fact that these decades saw a climb in general standards of living and avoidance of mass societal traumas like full-scale war or economic deprivation.However,the screen time hypothesis,advanced by researchers such as Jean Twenge,is that electr
34、onic devices and excessive time spent online may have reversed these trends in recent years,causing problems for young peoples psychological health.C To investigate,Twenge and her colleagues dived into the Monitoring the Future dataset based on annual surveys of American school students from grades
35、8,10,and 12 that started in 1991.In total,1.1 million young people answered various questions related to their wellbeing.Twenges teams analysis of the answers confinned the earlier,well-established wellbeing climb,with scores rising across the 1990s,and into the later 2000s.This was found across mea
36、sures like self-esteem,life satisfaction,happiness and satisfaction with individual domains like job,neighborhood,or friends.But around 2012 these measures started to decline.This continued through 2016,the most recent year for which data is available.D Twenge and her colleagues wanted to understand
37、 why this change in average wellbeing occurred.However,it is very hard to demonstrate causes using non-experimental data such as this.In fact,when Twenge previously used this data to suggest a screen time effect,some commentators were quick to raise this problem.They argued that her causal-sounding
38、claims rested on correlational data,and that she had not adequately accounted for other potential causal factors.This time around,Twenge and her team make a point of saying that they are not trying to establish causes as such,but that they are assessing the plausibility of potential causes.E First,t
39、hey explain that if a given variable is playing a role in affecting wellbeing,then we should expect any change in that variable to correlate with the observed changes in wellbeing.If not,it is not plausible that the variable is a causal factor.So the researchers looked at time spent in a number of a
40、ctivities that could plausibly be driving the wellbeing decline.Less sport,and fewer 第 612页meetings with peers correlated with lower wellbeing,as did less time reading print media(newspapers)and,surprisingly,less time doing homework.(This last finding would appear to contradict another popular hypot
41、hesis that it is our burdening of students with assignments that is causing all the problems.)In addition,more TV watching and more electronic communication both correlated with lower wellbeing.All these effects held true for measures of happiness,life satisfaction and self-esteem,with the effects s
42、tronger in the 8th and lOth-graders.F Next,Twenges team dug a little deeper into the data on screen time.They found that adolescents who spent a very small amount of time on digital devices-a couple of hours a week-had the highest wellbeing.Their wellbeing was even higher than those who never used s
43、uch devices.However,higher doses of screen time were clearly associated with lower happiness.Those spending 10-19 hours per week on their devices were 41 percent more likely to be unhappy than lower-frequency users.Those who used such devices 40 hours a week or more(one in ten teenagers)were twice a
44、s likely to be unhappy.The data was slightly complicated by the fact that there was a tendency for kids who were social in the real world to also use more online communication,but by bracketing out different cases it became clear that the real-world sociality component correlated with greater wellbe
45、ing,whereas greater time on screens or online only correlated with poorer wellbeing.G So far,so plausible.But the next question is,are the drops in average wellbeing happening at the same time as trends toward increased electronic device usage?It looks like it-after all,2012 was the tipping point wh
46、en more than half of Americans began owning smartphones.Twenge and her colleagues also found that across the key years of 2013-16,wellbeing was indeed lowest in years where adolescents spent more time online,on social media,and reading news online,and when more youth in the United States had smartph
47、ones.And in a second analysis,they found that where technology went,dips in wellbeing followed.For instance,years with a larger increase in online usage were followed by years with lower wellbeing,rather than the other way around.This does not prove causality,but is consistent with it.Meanwhile,TV u
48、se did not show this tracking.TV might make you less happy,but this is not what seems to be driving the recent declines in young peoples average happiness.HJ A similar but reversed pattern was found for the activities associated with greater wellbeing.For example,years when people spent more time wi
49、th friends were better years for wellbeing(and followed by better years).Sadly,the data also showed face-to-face socializing and sports activity had declined over the period covered by the survey.I There is another explanation that Twenge and her colleagues wanted to address:the impact of the great
50、recession of 2007-2009,which hit a great number of American families and might be 第 712页affecting adolescents.The dataset they used did not include economic data,so instead the researchers looked at whether the 2013-16 well being decline was tracking economic indicators.They found some evidence that