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2021年12月大学英语六级真题（第3套）
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2021年12月英语六级真题答案（第3套）

Part IWriting(30 minutes)
材料

Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay based on the short passage given below. In your essay, you are to comment on the phenomenon described in the passage and suggest measures to address the issue.

作答
参考范文
The digital age has brought about a revolution in how young people access information, with the internet becoming an indispensable part of their lives. However, this convenience comes with a significant challenge: the inability to discern between accurate and false information online. Young individuals often find themselves inundated with a plethora of data, some of which is misleading or fabricated. This inability stems from a lack of media literacy and critical thinking skills, which are essential in today's information-saturated environment. The consequences can be severe, ranging from the spread of misinformation to the erosion of trust in credible sources. To address this issue, it is imperative that educational institutions incorporate media literacy into their curricula. Additionally, technology companies have a role to play in developing algorithms that can better filter out false information. Parents and guardians should also engage in open dialogues with the youth about the importance of verifying information before accepting it as truth. By fostering a culture of skepticism and verification, we can empower the younger generation to navigate the digital world more responsibly.
Part IIListening(25分钟)

Section A

Directions: In this section, you will hear two long conversations. At the end of each conversation, you will hear four questions. Both the conversation and the questions will 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). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.
听力音频
1. What did Sarah think David was doing for the last two weeks?
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2. What happened to David on his way back from the hospital?
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3. What does Sarah say they should do with the damaged computer?
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4. What does Sarah say she is going to do?
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5. What does the man say about the woman?
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6. What does the woman say about her newly published book?
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7. What did the woman do before writing her new book?
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8. What does the woman say about her writing history books?
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Section B

Directions: 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 from the four choices marked A), B), C), and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.
听力音频
9. What does the passage say appears in almost all ads for Coca-Cola?
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10. Why did the Coca-Cola company decide to have special packaging designed?
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11. What do we learn about the Coca-Cola bottle designed by the Root Glass Company?
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12. What does research show about a conversation between strangers?
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13. What prevents people from starting a conversation with strangers?
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14. Why does a negative encounter with strangers stick in one's memory?
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15. What does the passage say the pleasure of connection seems to be?
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Section C

Directions: In this section you will hear 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 marked A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.
听力音频
16. What does the speaker say about the economy of the Caribbean islands?
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17. What is the main product of the Caribbean islands?
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18. What do we learn about the majority of people in the Caribbean islands?
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19. What will happen to children if they always get immediate satisfaction?
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20. What may prevent parents from raising confident and capable children?
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21. Why should children be encouraged to keep trying when they fail?
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22. What does the speaker say can easily prevent an interviewee from getting a job?
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23. What should the interviewee avoid doing in an interview?
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24. What kind of employees do companies like to recruit?
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25. What is especially important for those working in a small company?
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Part IIIReading Comprehension(40分钟)

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.

原文

If you think life is wonderful and expect it to stay that way, then you may have a good chance of living to a ripe old age, at least that is what the findings of a new study suggest. That study found that participants who reported the highest levels of optimism were far more likely to live to age 85 or . This was compared to those participants who reported the lowest levels of optimism. It is that the findings held even after the researchers considered factors that could the link, including whether participants had health conditions, such as heart disease or cancer, or whether they experienced depression.

The results add to a growing body of evidence that certain psychological factors may predict a longer life . For example, previous studies have found that more optimistic people have a lower risk of developing chronic diseases, and a lower risk of death. However, the new study appears to be the first to look at the relationship between optimism and longevity. The researchers that the link found in the new study was not as strong when they factored in the effects of certain health behaviors, including exercise levels, sleep habits and diet. This suggests that these behaviors may, at least in part, explain the link. In other words, optimism may good habits that bolster health.

It is also important to note that the study found only a , as researchers did not prove for certain that optimism leads to a longer life. However, if the findings are true, they suggest that optimism could serve as a psychological that promotes health and a longer life.

题目
Word Bank
A) affectB) beyondC) concededD) correlationE) fosterF) henceforthG) loftyH) noteworthyI) plausiblyJ) prematureK) reconciledL) spanM) specificallyN) spiralO) trait
答案与解析
26. 未作答
正确答案: B
27. 未作答
正确答案: H
28. 未作答
正确答案: A
29. 未作答
正确答案: L
30. 未作答
正确答案: J
31. 未作答
正确答案: M
32. 未作答
正确答案: C
33. 未作答
正确答案: E
34. 未作答
正确答案: D
35. 未作答
正确答案: O

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.

原文

Do music lessons really make children smarter?

A) A recent analysis found that most research mischaracterizes the relationship between music and skills enhancement.
B) In 2004, a paper appeared in the journal Psychological Science, titled "Music Lessons Enhance IQ." The author; composer and psychologist Glenn Schellenberg had conducted an experiment with 144 children randomly assigned to four groups: one learned the keyboard for a year, one took singing lessons, one joined an acting class, and a control group had no extracurricular training. The IQ of the children in the two musical groups rose by an average of seven points in the course of a year; those in the other two groups gained an average of 4.3 points.
C) Schellenberg had 1ong been skeptical of the science supporting claims that music education enhances children's abstract reasoning, math, or language skills. If children who play the piano are smarter, he says, it doesn't necessarily mean they are smarter because they play the piano. It could be that the youngsters who play the piano also happen to be more ambitious or better at focusing on a task. Correlation, after all, does not prove causation.
D) The 2004 paper was specifically designed to address those concerns. And as a passionate musician, Schellenberg was delighted when he turned up credible evidence that music has transfer effects on general intelligence. But nearly a decade later, in 2013, the Education Endowment Foundation funded a bigger study with more than 900 students. That study failed to confirm Schellenberg's findings, producing no evidence that music lessons improved math and literacy skills.
E) Schellenberg took that news in stride while continuing to cast a skeptical eye on the research in his field, Recently, he decided to formally investigate just how often his fellow researchers in psychology and neuroscience make what he believes are erroneous—or at least premature—causal connections between music and intelligence. His results, published in May, suggest that many of his peers do just that.
F) For his recent study, Schellenberg asked two research assistants to look for correlational studies on the effects of music education. They found a total of 114 papers published since 2000. To assess whether the authors claimed any causation, researchers then looked for telltale verbs in each paper's title and abstract, verbs like "enhance", "promote", "facilitate", and "strengthen". The papers were categorized as neuroscience if the study employed a brain imaging method like magnetic resonance, or if the study appeared in a journal that had "brain", "neuroscience", or a related term in its title. Otherwise the papers were categorized as psychology. Schellenberg didn't tell his assistants what exactly he was trying to prove.
G) After computing their assessments, Schellenberg concluded that the majority of the articles erroneously claimed that music training had a causal effect. The overselling, he also found, was more prevalent among neuroscience studies, three quarters of which mischaracterized a mere association between music training and skills enhancement as a cause-and-effect relationship. This may come as a surprise to some. Psychologists have been battling charges that they don't do "real" science for some time— in large part because many findings from classic experiments have proved unreproducible. Neuroscientists, on the other hand, armed with brain scans and EEGs(脑电图), have not been subject to the same degree of critique.
H) To argue for a cause-and-effect relationship, scientists must attempt to explain why and how a connection could occur. When it comes to transfer effects of music, scientists frequently point to brain plasticity — the fact that the brain changes according to how we use it. When a child learns to play the violin, for example, several studies have shown that the brain region responsible for the fine motor skills of the left hand's fingers is likely to grow. And many experiments have shown that musical training improves certain hearing capabilities, like filtering voices from background noise or distinguishing the difference between the consonants (辅音) 'b' and 'g'.
I) But Schellenberg remains highly critical of how the concept of plasticity has been applied in his field. "Plasticity has become an industry of its own," he wrote in his May paper. Practice does change the brain, he allows, but what is questionable is the assertion that these changes affect other brain regions, such as those responsible for spatial reasoning or math problems.
J) Neuropsychologist Lutz Jäncke agrees. "Most of these studies don't allow for causal inferences," he said. For over two decades, Jäncke has researched the effects of music lessons, and like Schellenberg, he believes that the only way to truly understand their effects is to run longitudinal studies. In such studies, researchers would need to follow groups of children with and without music lessons over a long period of time—even if the assignments are not completely random. Then they could compare outcomes for each group.
K) Some researchers are starting to do just that. The neuroscientist Peter Schneider from Heidelberg University in Germany, for example, has been following a group of children for ten years now. Some of them were handed musical instruments and given lessons through a school-based program in the Ruhr region of Germany called Jedem Kind ein Instrument, or "an instrument for every child," which was carried out with government funding. Among these children, Schneider has found that those who were enthusiastic about music and who practiced voluntarily showed improvements in hearing ability, as well as in more general competencies, such as the ability to concentrate.
L) To establish whether effects such as improved concentration are caused by music participation itself, and not by investing time in an extracurricular activity of any kind, Assal Habibi, a psychology professor at the University of Southern California, is conducting a five-year longitudinal study with children from low-income communities in Los Angeles. The youngsters fall into three groups: those who take after-school music, those who do after-school sports, and those with no structured after-school program at all. After two years, Habibi and her colleagues reported seeing structural changes in the brains of the musically trained children, both locally and in the pathways connecting different parts of the brain.
M) That may seem compelling, but Habibi's children were not selected randomly. Did the children who were drawn to music perhaps have something in them from the start that made them different but eluded the brain scanners? "As somebody who started taking piano lessons at the age of five and got up every morning at seven to practice, that experience changed me and made me part of who I am today," Schellenberg said. "The question is whether those kinds of experiences do so systematically across individuals and create exactly the same changes. And I think that is that huge leap of faith."
N) Did he have a hidden talent that others didn't have? Or more endurance than his peers? Music researchers tend, like Schellenberg, to be musicians themselves, and as he noted in his recent paper, "the idea of positive cognitive and neural side effects from music training (and other pleasurable activities) is inherently appealing." He also admits that if he had children of his own, he would encourage them to take music lessons and go to university. "I would think that it makes them better people, more critical, just wiser in general," he said.
O) But those convictions should be checked at the entrance to the lab, he added. Otherwise, the work becomes religion or faith. "You have to let go of your faith if you want to be a scientist."
题目
Match the statements with the paragraphs
36.Glenn Schellenberg's latest research suggests many psychologists and neuroscientists wrongly believe in the causal relationship between music and IQ.
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正确答案: E
37.The belief in the positive effects of music training appeals to many researchers who are musicians themselves.
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正确答案: N
38.Glenn Schellenberg was doubtful about the claim that music education helps enhance children's intelligence.
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正确答案: C
39.Glenn Schellenberg came to the conclusion that most of the papers assessed made the wrong claim regarding music's effect on intelligence.
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正确答案: G
40.You must abandon your unverified beliefs before you become a scientist.
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正确答案: O
41.Lots of experiments have demonstrated that people with music training can better differentiate certain sounds.
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正确答案: H
42.Glenn Schellenberg's findings at the beginning of this century were not supported by a larger study carried out some ten years later.
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正确答案: D
43.One researcher shares Glenn Schellenberg's view that it is necessary to conduct long-term developmental studies to understand the effects of music training.
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正确答案: J
44.Glenn Schellenberg's research assistants had no idea what he was trying to prove in his new study.
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正确答案: F
45.Glenn Schellenberg admits that practice can change certain areas of the brain but doubts that the change can affect other areas.
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正确答案: I

Section C

Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C), and D). You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.

Passage One

原文

The trend toward rationality and enlightenment was endangered long before the advent of the World Wide Web. As Neil Postman noted in his 1985 book Amusing Ourselves to Death, the rise of television introduced not just a new medium but a new discourse: a gradual shift from a typographic culture to a photographic one, which in turn meant a shift from rationality to emotions, exposition to entertainment. In an image-centered and pleasure-driven world, Postman noted, there is no place for rational thinking because you simply cannot think with images. It is text that enables us to "uncover lies, confusions and overgeneralizations, and to detect abuses of logic and common sense. It also means to weigh ideas, to compare and contrast assertions, to connect one generalization to another."

The dominance of television was not confined to our living rooms. It overturned all of those habits of mind, fundamentally changing our experience of the world. Conduct of politics, religion, business, and culture was reduced to entertainment, sensationalism, and commerce. "Americans don't talk to each other; we entertain each other," Postman wrote. "They don't exchange ideas; they exchange images. They do not argue with propositions; they argue with good looks, celebrities, and commercials."

At first, the web seemed to push against this trend. When it emerged towards the end of the 1980s as a purely text-based medium, it was seen as a tool to pursue knowledge, not pleasure. Reason and thought were most valued in this garden—all derived from the project of the Enlightenment. Universities around the world were among the first to connect to this new medium, which hosted discussion groups, informative personal or group blogs, electronic magazines, and academic mailing lists and forums. It was an intellectual project, not about commerce or control, created in a scientific research center in Switzerland. For more than a decade, the web created an alternative space that threatened television's grip on society.

题目
46. What did Neil Postman say about the rise of television?
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47. According to the passage, what is the advantage of text reading?
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48. How has television impacted Americans?
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49. What does the passage say about the World Wide Web?
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50. What do we learn about users of social media?
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Passage Two

原文

A recent study reveals a small but growing proportion of the workforce is affected to some degree by a sense of entitlement. Work is less about what they can contribute and more about what they can take. This can lead to workplace dysfunction and diminish job satisfaction. I'm not referring to employees who are legitimately dissatisfied due to issues like unfair pay; I'm talking about those who believe they deserve special treatment regardless of their abilities or performance.

As a result of the discrepancy between the privileges they feel entitled to and their inflated sense of self-worth, they tend to slack off instead of working hard for their employer. Many scholars believe this tendency begins in childhood, due to overindulgent parents, leading these individuals to expect the same kind of treatment throughout their adult lives. Despite their feelings, it's crucial for managers to find ways to keep them motivated.

The research team from several American universities surveyed over 240 individuals, including managers and team members. Employee entitlement was measured through statements like "I honestly feel I'm just more deserving than others," while employee engagement was assessed with statements like "I really throw myself into my work." The findings revealed that ethical leadership alleviates the negative effects of employee entitlement. Ethical leaders communicate clear expectations, hold employees accountable, and are committed to doing the right thing.

When confronted by an entitled team member, an ethical leader is disinclined to accommodate their demands. Instead, they point out the specific, objective criteria that must be met to receive rewards. This shift away from unrealistic expectations is successful because entitled employees feel more confident that ethical leaders will deliver on their promises, as they are perceived to be fair and trustworthy.

However, researchers caution that there is no single perfect remedy. While ethical leadership is a critical step in the right direction, it is essential to recognize that individual beliefs and motivations can vary greatly.

题目
51. What does a recent study find about a growing number of workers?
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52. Why don't some employees work hard according to many scholars?
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53. What is a manager supposed to do to enable workers to do a better job?
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54. What do the research findings reveal about ethical leaders?
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55. What kind of leaders are viewed as ethical by entitled employees?
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Part IVTranslation(30 minutes)
材料

Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to translate a passage from Chinese into English. You should write your answer on Answer Sheet 2.

延安位于陕西省北部，地处黄河中游，是中国革命的圣地。毛泽东等老一辈革命家曾在这里生活战斗了十三个春秋，领导了抗日战争和解放战争，培育了延安精神，为中国革命做出了巨大贡献。延安的革命旧址全国数量最大、分布最广、级别最高。延安是全国爱国主义、革命传统和延安精神教育基地。延安有 9个革命纪念馆，珍藏着中共中央和老一辈革命家在延安时期留存下来的大量重要物品，因此享有"中国革命博物馆城"的美誉。
作答
参考译文
Yan'an is located in the northern part of Shaanxi Province, in the middle reaches of the Yellow River, and is a sacred place for the Chinese revolution. Mao Zedong and other veteran revolutionaries lived and fought here for thirteen years, leading the Anti-Japanese War and the Liberation War, nurturing the Yan'an spirit, and making significant contributions to the Chinese revolution. Yan'an has the largest number, widest distribution, and highest level of revolutionary sites in the country. It is a national base for patriotism, revolutionary tradition, and Yan'an spirit education. Yan'an has 9 revolutionary memorial halls, housing a large number of important items left by the CPC Central Committee and veteran revolutionaries during their time in Yan'an, thus earning the reputation of 'China's Revolutionary Museum City'.

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