2018年6月英语六级真题第3套

2018 年 6 月英语六级真题（第三套） Part I Writing (30 minutes) (请于正式开考后半小时内完成该部分，之后将进行听力考试) Directions:For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay on the importance of building trust between teachers and students. You can cite examples to illustrate yourviews. you should write at l east 150 words but no more than 200 words. Part II Listening Comprehension (30 minutes) 说明：2018 年 6 月大学英语六级考试全国共考了两套听力.本套的听力内容与第二套相同， 因此本套听力部分不再重复给出。 Part Ⅲ minutes) Reading Comprehension (40 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. ScientistsscanningandmappingtheGizapyramidssaythey'vediscoveredthatt heGreatPyramidof Gizaisnotexactlyeven.Butreallynotbymuch.Thispyramidistheoldestofthewo rld 'sSevenWonders.Thepyramid’sexactsizehas (26)_______ expertsforcenturies,asthe"morethan21acresofhard,whitecasingstones"thatorig inallycovereditwere(27)_______ longago.Reportinginthemostrecentissueofthenewsletter"AERAGRAM",which (28)_______ theworkoftheAncientEgyptResearchAssociates, engineer Glen Dash says his team used a new measuring approach that involved finding any surviving(29)_______ of the casing in order to determine where the original edge was. They found the eastside of the pyramid to be a(30)_______ of 5.5 inches shorter than the west side. The question that most(31)_______ him, however, isn’t how the Egyptians who designed and built the pyramid got it wrong 4,500 years ago, but how they got it so dose to(32)_______ . "We can only speculate as how the Egyptians could have laid out these lines with such(33)_______ using only the tools they had,"Dash writes. He says his (34)_______ is that the Egyptians laid out their design on a grid, noting that the great pyramid is oriented only (35)_______ away from the cardinal directions (its north-south axis runs 3 minutes 54 seconds west of due north,while its east-west axis runs 3 minutes 51 seconds north of due east)—an amount that’s "tiny but similar", archeologist Atlas Obscura points out. 注意：此部分试题请在答题卡 2 上作答。 A)chronicles B) complete C) established F) maximum G) momentum H) D) fascinates I) perfect E) hypothesis J)precision mysteriously K)puzzled L)remnants M)removed N)revelations 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 O)slightly 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. Peer Pressure Has a Positive Side [A] Parents of teenagers often view their children's friends with something like suspicion. They worry that the adolescent peer group has the power to push its members into behavior that is foolish and even dangerous. Such wariness is well founded: statistics show, for example, that a teenage driver with a same-age passenger in the car is at higher risk of a fatal crash than an adolescent driving alone or with an adult. [B] In a 2005 study, psychologist Laurence Steinberg of Temple University and his co-author, psychologist Margo Gardner, then at Temple, divided 306 people into three age groups: young adolescents, with a mean age of 14; older adolescents, with a mean age of 19; and adults, aged 24 and older. Subjects played a computerized driving game in which the player must avoid crashing into a wall that materializes, without warning, on the roadway. Steinberg and Gardner randomly assigned some participants to play alone or with two same-age peers looking on. [C] Older adolescents scored about 50 percent higher on an index of risky driving when their peers were in the room—and the driving of early adolescents was fully twice as reckless when other young teens were around. In contrast, adults behaved in similar ways regardless of whether they were on their own or observed by others. "The presence of peers makes adolescents and youth, but not adults, more likely to take risks ，" Steinberg and Gardner concluded. [D]Yet in the years following the publication of this study, Steinberg began to believe that this interpretation did not capture the whole picture. As he and other researchers examined the question of why teens were more apt to take risks in the company of other teenagers, they came to suspect that a crowd 's influence need not always be negative. Now some experts are proposing that we should take advantage of the teen brain's keen sensitivity to the presence of friends and leverage it to improve education. [E]In a 2011 study, Steinberg and his colleagues turned to functional MRI (磁共 振 ） to investigate how the presence of peers affects the activity in the adolescent brain. They scanned the brains of 40teens and adults who were playing a virtual driving game designed to test whether players would brake at a yellow light or speed on through the crossroad. [F ] The brains of teenagers, but not adults, showed greater activity in two regions associated with rewards when they were being observed by sameage peers than when alone. In other words,rewards are more intense for teens when they are with peers, which motivates them to pursue higherrisk experiences that might bring a big payoff (such as the thrill of just making the light before it turns red). But Steinberg suspected this tendency could also have its advantages. In his latestexperiment, published online in August, Steinberg and his colleagues used a computerized version of a card game called the Iowa Gambling Task to investigate how the presence of peers affects the way young people gather and apply information. [G]The results: Teens who played the Iowa Gambling Task under the eyes of fellow adolescents engaged in more exploratory behavior ， learned faster from both positive and negative outcomes ， and achieved better performance on the task than those who played in solitude. What our study suggests is that teenagers learn more quickly and more effectively when their peers are present than when they 're on their own，" Steinberg says. And this finding could have important implications for how we think about educating adolescents. [H]Matthew D. Lieberman, a social cognitive neuroscientist at the University of California, Los Angeles, and author of the 2013 book Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect，suspects that the human brain is especially skillful at learning socially significant information. He points to a classic 2004 study in which psychologists at Dartmouth College and Harvard University used functional MRI to track brain activity in 17 young men as they listened to descriptions of people while concentrating on either socially relevant cues ( for example ， trying to form an impression of a person based on the description) or more socially neutral information (such as noting the order of details in the description). The descriptions were the same in each condition, but people could better remember these statements when given a social motivation. [I]The study also found that when subjects thought about and later recalled descriptions in terms of theirinformational content, regions associated with factual memory, such as the medial temporal lobe, became active. But thinking about or remembering descriptions in terms of their social meaning activated the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex—part of the brain's social network—even as traditionalmemory regions registered low levels of activity. More recently, as he reported in a 2012 review, Lieberman has discovered that this region may be part of a distinct network involved in socially motivated learning and memory. Such findings, he says, suggest that "this network can be called on to process and store the kind of