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1、2014 年 12 月大Writing六級(一)(30minutes)Part IDirections: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay based on thcture below.Youshould start your essay wibrief description of thcture and then discuss whethertechnology isindispensable in education. You should give sound arguments to suppor

2、t your viewsand writeeast 150words but no moren 200 words.注意：此部分試題請在答題卡 1 上作答。Part SectionA Directions:Listening Comprehen(30minutes)his section, you will hear8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. Atof eachconversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both theconve

3、rsation and thequestions will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause.During the pause, you mustread the.four choimarked A ),B,C and D ), and decide which isthe best answer. Then mark thecorresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 wi the centre.注意：此部分試題請在答題卡 1 上作答。single line throu

4、gh1.A The mans tennis racket isgood enough. new shoes.a little while.BC DThe man should get a pair ofShe can wait for the man forPhysical exercise helps her stay in sh.2.A The woman will skipDr. Smiths lecture to help the man. to attend the lecture by Dr. Smith.ng lab demonstrations.B CDKathy is ver

5、y pleasedThe woman is good atThe man will do all he can to assist the woman.3.A Thewoman asked became richinvited histhe man to soon afterclassmatespany her to the party. graduation from college.to visit his big cottage.BC DSteveSteveThe speakers and Steve used to be classmates.4.A Ina bus. clinic.

6、boat.plane.B CDIn InIna aa5.A 10:10.B CD9: 50.9 : .A She does not like John at all.BC DJohn hasShe does John hasgot many admirers.not think John is handsome. just got a bachelors degree.7.A He hasbeen bumalongfor hours. he neck. accident.traffic jam.BC DHeHe Hehas got a sharp painisisinvolv

7、ed in a serioustrapped inis good ata terrible8.A Sherepairing things.B CDShe SheSheis a profesalmechaniC.hysical condition.shouldcannotimprove hgo withoutawashing machine.on the conversation you have just heard. to appear in court.Questions 9 to11 are based9.A Some witnesses failedB The case caused

8、debate among the public.C The accused was found guilty of stealing.DThe10.Aaccused refused to plead guilty in court. He was out of his mind.was unemployed.BC DHeHis wife desertedHis children werehim. sick.jail before.11.AHe had been inBC DHeHe Hewaswas hadunworthy of sympathy. unlikely to get mitted

9、 the same sort of crime.Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation12.A Irresponsible.you have just heard.B CDUnsatisfactory. Aggressive.Conservative.13.Aernal communication.BC DDistribution of brochures. Public relations.Product design.14.A Placing advertisementshe trade press.Drawing sketches

10、AdvertisingMakingevifor advertisement he national merls.15.A She has themotivation to do the job.B She knows the tricks of advertising.C She is not so easy to get along with.D She is not suitable for theSectionBition.Directions:his section, you will hear 3 short passages. Atof each passage, you will

11、hear somequestions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you heara question, youmust choose the best answer from the four choimarked A ), B ), C ) and D ).Then mark thecorresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 wiPassage Onesingle linethroughthecentre.Questions 16 to 19 are

12、 based on the passage you have just heard.16.A The cozy communal life.B CDThe cultural diversity. Innovative academic programs.Impressive school buildings.17.AIt is helpsis asvery benefi them soak upimportant asl to their academic progress. the surrounding culture.their learning experience.B CDIt It

13、Itensures their physical and mental health.It offers the most challenging academic programs. s the worlds best-known military vides numerous options for students. draws faculty from all around the world.They try to give students opportunities for experimen18.AB CDIIt It19.Aion.BC DTheyT

14、hey Theyare responsible merely to their Ministry of Education.striveensuretodevelop every students academic potential.t all students get roughly equal attention.Passage TwoQuestions 20 to22are based on the passage you have just heard.20.AIt will arrive at Boulogne alf past two.B CDIt ItItcrosses the

15、 English Channel twice aday. coast.minutes.isis Opnow aboulf way to the Frenchleaving Folkestone in about five21.Aitethe ships office. duty-free shop.of B deck.BC DNext to theAtthe rearhe front of A deck.22.AIt is isisis for the sole use of passengers travelling with cars.B CDIt ItItmu forforore spa

16、ciousn the lounge on C deck.the use of passengers travelling with children.senior passengers and people with VIP cards.Passage ThreeQuestions 23 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.23.AIt was named after its location.B CDIt ItItwas waswasnamed namednamedafter afterafterits discoverer.

17、a cave art expert.one of its paers.24.A Animal paing waspart of the spiritual life of the time.the ancient Cro-Magnon people.BC DDeer were worshiped byCro-Magnon people paed animals theyted and ate.They were beved to keep evils awayfrom cave dwellers.ings were created.25.A They know little about why

18、 the paB CDThey TheyTheyhave difficultylingare unable to draw suchwhen thepaings weredone.ings. ings.eresting and fine pameaning of the cave pahave misreted theSection CDirections.his section, youwill hearsage three times. When the passage is read forthetime,you should listen carefully for its gener

19、al idea. When the passage is read forthe second time, you arerequired to fillhe bls with the exact words you have just heard.Finally, when the passage is read forthe third time,注意：此部分試題請在答題卡 1 上作答。you should check what you have written.If you are attending a local college, espellyithout residence ha

20、lls, youll probablylive athome and commute to classes. This arrangemenacomfortable and familiar setting, and it means youlls a lot of26 Its cher. It providesget the kind of home cooking youre usedto insteadof the monotony (單調(diào))t27even the best institutional food.However, commuting students need to 28

21、toe involvedhe life of their college and totakespel steps to meet their fellow students. Often, this means a certain amount of initiativeon yourpart in29and talking to people in your classes whom you think you might like.One problemt commuting students sometimes face is their parents unwillingness t

22、o recognizettheyre adults. The30from high school to college is a big one, and if you live at homeyou need todevelop the same kind of independence youd have if you were living away. Home rulest mighvebeen 31when you were in high school dont apply. If your parents are32torenegotiate,you can speed the

23、pros along by letting your behavior showt you have theresponsibilityt goeswith maturity. Parents are more willing to33their children as adultswhen they behave like adults.If, however, theres so much friction at homet it34youracademic work, you might want toconsider sharing an apartment with one or m

24、ore friends. Sometimesthis isa happy solution when family35make everyone miserable.PartSectionReading Comprehen(40 minutes)ADirections:his section, there issage with ten blgiven in a word bs. You are required to select onefollowing the passage. Read theword for eachblfrom a list of choipassage throu

25、gh carefullybefore makingyour choi. Each choicehe bis identified bya letter. Please mark the correspondingletter for each item on ,Answer Sheet 2 wisingle linethrough the centre. You may not use any of thewordshe bmoren once.Questions 36 toChildren are theydont know45 are based on the following pass

26、age.natural-born scientists. They have 36minds, and they arent afraid to admitsomething. Most of them,37, lose this as they get older. Theyeself-consciousand dont want to appear stu. Instead of finding things out for themselves theymake38toften turn out to be wrong.So its not a case of getting kidse

27、rested in science. You jusve to avoid killing the39forlearningt they were born with. Its no coincidencet kids start deserting scienceonce itesformalised. Children naturally have a blurred approach to40knowledge. They seelearning aboutscience or biology or cooking as all part of the same act its all

28、learning. Itsonly because of thepracticalities of educationo spelist subjects. Youneed to have spet you have to start breaking down the curriculumlist teachers who 41what they know. Thus oncethey enter school, childrenbego define subjects and erect boundariest neednt otherwiseexist.Dividing subjects

29、o science, maths, English, etc. is something we do for 42.he enditsall learning, but many children todayscienceis for scientists, not for them.43themselves from a scientific education. They thinkOf course we need to spelise44. Each of us has only so much time on Earth, so we cantstudyeverything. At

30、5 years old, our field of knowledge and45is broad, covering anything fromlearningto walk to learning, to count. Gradually it narrows down so beone tiny little corner within science.thin science.注意：此部分試題請在答題卡 2 上作答。A accidentally F exclude K impartt by the time we are 45, it mightB acquiring G exerti

31、on L inquiringC aIformulasN provokingmptions H exploration M pasDconvenienceEeventuallyJ igniteSection BO unfortunayDirections:his section, you are going to readsage with ten sements attached to it.Eachsement contains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph fromwhich thein

32、formation is derived. You may choose a paragraph moren once. Each paragraph ismarked wi2.letter. Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter on ,Answer SheetMeaning Is Healthiern HappinessA Foreast the last decade, the happiness craze has been building.he last three monthsalone, over100

33、0 books on happiness were released on Amazon, including Happy Money,Happy-PeoplB One of the sorts of goodlls ForAll, and, for those just starting out, Happiness for Beginners.consistent claims of books like these isppiness is assoted willes, including-most promisingly-good health. Many studies have

34、notedn a happy mind and a healthy body-the happier we are, the better healththe connectionbetes we seem tohave. In an overview of 150 studies on this topic, researchers put it like this: Inductions of well-beinglead to healthy functioning, and inductions of ill-being lead tocompromised health.C But

35、a new study, just publishedhe Proceedings of the National Academy of Scien(PNAS)challenges the rosy picture. Happiness may not be as good for the body as researchers thought.Itmight even be bad.D Of course, its important todefine happiness. A few months ago, I wrote a piece calledTheresMore to Lifen

36、 Being Happy about a psychology studyt dugo whappiness reallymeansto people. It specifically explored the difference betlife.n a meaningful life and a happyEIt seems stranget there would be a difference at all. But the researchers, who looked ata largesle of people over a month-long period, foundppi

37、ness is assoted with selfishtakingbehavior andbehavior.ving a sense of meaning in life is assoted with selfless givingF Happiness without meaning characterizes a relatively shallow, self-absorbed or even selfish life, inwhich things go well, needs and desires are easily satisfied, and complicated re

38、lationshipsareavoided, the authors of the study wrote. If anything, pure happiness is linked to not helothersin need. Whieing happy is about feeling good, meaning is derived from contributingto others orto society in a bigger way. As Roy Baumeister, one of the researchers, told me, Partlywhat we do

39、ashuman beings is to take care of others and contribute to others. This makes lifemeaningful but it doesnot nesarily make us happy.GThe new PNAS study also sheds light on the difference betn meaning and happiness, but onthebiological level. Barbara Fredrickson, a psychological researcher at the Univ

40、ersity of NorthCarolina-Chl Hill, and Steve Cole, a genetics and psychiatry (學) researcher at UCLA,examined theself-reported levels of happiness and meaning in 80 research subjects.HHappiness was defined, ashe earr study, by feeling good. The researchers measuredhappiness byasking subjects questions

41、 like How often did you feel happy?, How often did youfeelerested inlife? and How often did you feel satisfied? The more strongly people endorsedthese measures ofhedonic ( happiness.I Meaning was defined as an orien的) well-being, or pleasure, the higher they scored onion to something biggern the sel

42、f. They measured meaningbyasking questions like How often did you feelt your life has a sense of direction or meaning something to contribute to society? The more論的) well-being-or, simply put, virtue-theto it?and How often did you feelt you hadpeopleendorsed these measures of eudaimonic (moremeaning

43、 they felt in life.J After noting the sense of meaning and happinesst each subjecd, Fredrickson and Cole,withtheir research colleagues, looked at the ways certain getheparticipants. Like neuroscientists who use fMRI (功能磁xpressed themselves in each of成像) scanning to determine howregionshe brain respo

44、nd to different stimuli, Cole and Fredrickson areerested in how thebody, at tetic level, responds to feelings of happiness and meaning.K Coles past work has linked various kinds of chronic adversity to a particular gene exprespattern.When people feel lonely, are grieving the loss of a loved one, or

45、are struggling to makeends meet,their bodies goo threat mode. This triggers the activation of a stress-related genepatternand a decreasestwo features: an increasehe activity of pro-inflammatory (促炎癥的) genesheactivity of genes involved in anti-viral responses.L Cole and Fredrickson foundt people who

46、are happy buve little to no sense of meaningheirlives have the same gene exprespatterns as people who are responding to and enduringchronicadversity.t is, the bodies of these happy people are preparing them for bacterialthreats byactivating the pro-inflammatory response. Chronic inflammation is, of

47、course,assotedwith majorillnesses like heart disease and various cancers.itive emotions-like the kind people experience during manic (狂喜的)sodes lly induced euphoria (欣快) from alcohol and drugs-are about as good for you asM Emptyorartifiadversity,says Fredrickson.N Its important to understandt for ma

48、ny people, a sense of meaning and happiness in lifeoverlap;many people score jolyhigh (or joly low) on the happiness and meaning measureshe study.But for many others,on happiness andhigh on meaning orthere is a dissonance (不一致)-they feelt they are lowt their lives are very high in happiness, but low

49、eaning.This last group,which has te exprespattern assoted widversity, formed 75 percentof studyparticipants. Only one quarter of the study participants had what the researchers calleudaimonicpredominance-t is, their sense of meaning outpaced their feelings of happiness.O This is too bad given the mo

50、re benefil gene exprespattern assoted withmeaningfulness.People whose levels of happiness and meaning line up, and people who have astrongsense of meaningbut are not nesarily happy, showed a de-activation of the adversity stressresponse. Their bodieswere not preparing them for the bacterial infectio

51、nst we get when weare alone orpeople.rouble, butfor the viral infections we get when surrounded by a lot of otherPFredricksons past research, described in her two books,itivity and Love 2.0, has mappedthebenefits ofrsonsitive emotions in individuals. She has foundtitive emotions broadenand help prot

52、ect people against adversity. So it warprising to hert hedonichis studywell-being, which is assoted withitive emotions and pleasure, did so badlycomparedwith eudaimonic well-being.Q Its not the amount of hedonic happinessts a problem. Fredricksonls me, Itstits notmatched by eudaimonic well-being. It

53、s great when bore in step. But if you have morehedonicwell-beingadversityemerged.n would be expected,ts when this gene patternts similar toR The terms hedonism and eudaimonism bring to mind the great philosophical debate, which has shdWestern civilization for over 2000 years, about the nature of the

54、 good life. Does happinessinfeeling good, as hedonists think, or inng and being good, as Aristotle and hisellectualdescendants, the virtue ethicists (學家), think? From the evidence of this study,it seems tfeeling good is not enough. People need meaning to thrive. he words of Carl Jung, The least ofth

55、ings wi meaning is worth more in life n the greatest of things without it. Jungs wisdomcertainly seems to apply to our bodies, if not also to our hearts and our minds.注意：此部分試題請在答題卡 2 上作答。46. The authors recent article examined how a meaningful life is different from a happy life.47. It should be not

56、edt many people feel their life is both happy and meaningful.48. According to one survey, there is a close relationship betand high scores on happiness.n hedonic well-being measures49. According to one of the authors of a new study, what makes life meaningful may not make peoplehappy.Experiments wer

57、e carried out to determine our bodys genetic expres happiness and meaning.A new study claims happiness may not contribute to health.of feelings ofAccording to the researchers, taking makes for happiness while giving adds meaning to life.Evidence from research showst it takes meaning for people to th

58、rive.54. With regard to gene exprespatterns, happy people with little or no sense of meaning inlife are foundto be similar to those suffering from chronic adversity.55. Most books on happiness today assertppiness is benefil to health.Section CDirections: There are 2 passageshis section. Each passage

59、 is followed by some questions orunfinishedsements. For each of them there are four choimarkedA ,B ,C and D ) . Youshould decide on thebest choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 wi line through the centre.Passage OneQuestions 56 to 60 are based on the following passage.singleNot

60、hing succeeds in business books like the study of sucs. The current business-book boomwaslaunched in 1982 by Tom Peters and Robert Waterman with In Search of Excellence. The trendhascontinued wisucof experts and would-be experts who promise to distil the essenceof excellenceo three (or five or seven