2014年12月六级考试真题（三）

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2014 年12 月大学英语六级考试真题(三)

Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay based on the picture below. You should start

your essay with a brief description of the picture and then discuss what qualities an employer should look for in job

applicants. You should give sound arguments to support your views and write at least 150 words but no more than

200 words.

说明：2014 年12 月大学英语六级真题全国共考了两套听力。本套（即第三套）的听力材料与第一套完全一样，

只是选项的顺序不同而已，故本套不再重复给出。

Section C

Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time,you should

listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the

blanks with the exact words you have just heard. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should

check what you have written.

If you're like most people, you've indulged in fake listening many times. You go to history class, sit in the third

row, and look squarely at the instructor as she speaks. But your mind is far away,26inthe clouds of pleasant

daydreams. Occasionally you come back to earth: The instructor writes an important term on the chalkboard, and you

27copy it in your notebook. Every once in a while the instructor makes a 28remark, causing others in the class to

laugh. You smile politely, pretending that you've heard the remark and found it mildly humorous. You have a vague

sense of 29that you aren't paying close attention, but you tell yourself that any material you miss can 30from a

friend's notes. Besides, the instructor's talking about road 31in ancient Rome, and nothing could be more boring. So

back you go into your private little world. Only later do you realize you've missed important information for a test.

Fake listening may be easily exposed, since many speakers 32facial cues and can tell if you're merely pretending

to listen. Your blank expression and the faraway look in your eyes are the cues that33your inattentiveness.

Even if you're not exposed, there's another reason to avoid fakery: It's easy for this34tobecome a habit. For some

people, the habit is so deeply rooted that they automatically start day dreaming when a speaker begins talking on

something35or uninteresting. As a result, they miss lots of valuable information.

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 center. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.

Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.

It was 10 years ago, on a warm July night, that a newborn lamb took her first breath in a small shed

in Scotland. From the outside, she looked no different from thousands of other sheep born on 36 farms. But Dolly, as

the world soon came to realize, was no 37 lamb. She was cloned from a single cell of an adult female sheep, 38 long-

held scientific dogma that had declared such a thing biologically impossible.

A decade later, scientists are starting to come to grips with just how different Dolly was. Dozens of animals have

been cloned since that first lamb_mice, cats, cows and, most recently, a dog—and it's becoming 39 clear that they

are all, in one way or another, defective.

It's 40 to think of clones as perfect carbon copies of the original. It turns out, though, that there are various degrees

of genetic 41 . That may come as a shock to people who have paid thousands of dollars to clone a pet cat only to

discover that the baby cat looks and behaves 42 liketheir beloved pet—with a different-color coat of fur, perhaps, or

a 43 different attitude toward its human hosts.

And these are just the obvious differences. Not only are clones 44 from the original template(模板) by time, but

they are also the product of an unnatural molecular mechanism that turns out not to be very good at making 45

copies. In fact, the process can embed small flaws in the genes of clones that scientists are only now discovering

注意：此部分试题请在答题卡 2上作答。

A．abstract F. identical K．overturning

B．completely. G. increasingly L． separated

C．deserted H．miniature M． surrounding

D. duplication I．Nothing N． systematically.

E. everything J. ordinary O． tempting

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.

Should Single-Sex Education Be Eliminated?

A）Why is a neuroscientist here debating single-sex schooling? Honestly, I had no fixed ideas on the topic when I started

researching it for my book, Pink Brain, Blue Brain. But any discussion of gender differences in children inevitably

leads to this debate, so I felt compelled to dive into the research data on single-sex schooling. I read every study I

could, weighed the existing evidence, and ultimately concluded that single-sex education is not the answer to gender

gaps in achievement--or the best way forward for today's young people. After my book was published, I met several

developmental and cognitive psychologists whose work was addressing gender and education from different angles,

and we published a peer-reviewed Education Forum piece in Science magazine with the provocative title, "The

Pseudoscience of Single-Sex Education."

B）We showed that three lines of research used to justify single-sex schooling--educational, neuroscience, and social

psychology--all fail to support its alleged benefits, and so the widely-held view that gender separation is somehow

better for boys, girls, or both is nothing more than a myth.

The Research on Academic Outcomes.

C） First, we reviewed the extensive educational research that has compared academic outcomes in students attending

single-sex versus coeducational schools. The overwhelming conclusion when you put this enormous literature

together is that there is no clear academic advantage of sitting in all-female or all-male classes, in spite of much

popular belief to the contrary. I base this conclusion not on any individual study, but on large-scale and systematic

reviews of thousands of studies conducted in every major English-speaking country.

D）Of course, there’re many excellent single-sex schools out there, but as these careful research reviews have

demonstrated, it's not their single-sex composition that makes them excellent. It's all the other advantages that are

typically packed into such schools, such as financial resources, quality of the faculty, and pro-academic culture, along

with the family background and pre-selected ability of the students themselves that determine their outcomes.

E）A case in point is the study by Linda Sax at UCLA, who used data from a large national survey of college freshmen to

evaluate the effect of single-sex versus coeducational high schools. Commissioned by the National Coalition of Girls'

Schools, the raw findings look pretty good for the funders--higher SAT scores and a stronger academic orientation

among women who had attended all girls' high schools (men weren't studied). However, once the researchers

controlled for both student and school attributes--measures such as family income, parents' education, and school

resources--most of these effects were erased or diminished.

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