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Part IIListening Comprehension (30 minutes) Section A Directions : In thi,s 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 asingle line through the centre. Questions 1 to 4 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 1. A) A driving test.C) Traffic routes.B) A video game.D) Cargo logistics.2. A) He found it instructive and realistic.B) He bought it when touring Europe.C) He was really drawn to its other versions.D) He introduced it to his brother last year.3. A) Traveling all over the country.B) Driving from one city to another.C) The details in the driving simulator.D) The key role of the logistics industry.4. A) Clearer road signs.B) More people driving safely.C) Stricter traffic rules.D) More self-driving trucks on the road.Questions 5 to 8 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 5. A) It isnt so enjoyable as he expected.B) It isnt so motivating as he believed.C) It doesnt enable him to earn as much money as he used to.D) It doesnt seem to offer as much freedom as he anticipated.6. A) Not all of them care about their employees behaviors.B) Few of them are aware of their employees feelings.C) Few of them offer praise and reward to their employees.D) Not all of them know how to motivate their employees.6 1 2020年12月大学英语六级试题第2套2020年12月大学英语六级试题第2套7. A) Job satisfaction. C) Autonomy. B) Self-awareness. D) Money. 8. A) The importance of cultivating close relationships with clients. B).The need for getting recommendations from their managers. C) The advantages of permanent full-time employment. D) The way to explore employees interests and talents. Sectjon B Dirctions : 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. Questions 9 to 11 are based on the passage you have just heard. 9. A) Consumers visualize their activities in different weather. B) Good weather triggers consumers desire to go shopping. C) Weather conditions influence consumers buying behavior. D) Consumers mental states change with the prices of goods. 10. A) Active consumption. C) Individual association. B) Direct correlation. D) Mental visualization. 11. A) Enabling them to simplify their mathematical formulas. B) Helping them determine what to sell and at what price. C) Enabling them to sell their products at a higher price. D) Helping them advertise a greater variety of products. Questions 12 to 15 are based on the passage you have just heard. 12. A) A naturally ventilated office is more comfortable. B) A cool office will boost employees productivity. C) Office air-conditioning should follow guidebooks. D) Air-conditioning improves ventilation in the office. 13. A) People in their comfort zone of temperature are more satisfied with their productivity. B) People in different countries vary in their tolerance to uncomfortable temperatures. C) Twenty-two degrees is the optimal temperature for office workers. D) There is a range of temperatures for people to feel comfortable. (I , 2 14. A) It will have no negative impact on work. B) It will be immediately noticeable. C) It will sharply decrease work efficiency. D) It will cause a lot of discomfort. 15. A) They tend to favor lower temperatures. B) They suffer from rapid temperature changes. C) They are not bothered by temperature extremes. D) They become less sensitive to high temperatures. Section C Directions: In thi,s 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. Questions 16 to 18 are based on the recording you have just heard. 16. A) It overlooked the possibility that emotions may be controlled. B) It ignored the fact that emotions are personal and subjective. C) It classified emotions simply as either positive or negative. D) It measured positive and negative emotions independently. 17. A) Sitting alone without doing anything seemed really distressing. B) Solitude adversely affected the participants mental well-being. C) Sitting alone for 15 minutes made the participants restless. D) Solitude had a reductive effect on high-arousal emotions. 18. A) It proved hard to depict objectively. B) It went hand in hand with sadness. C) It helped increase low-arousal emotions. D) It tended to intensify negative emotions. Questions 19 to 21 are based on the recording you have just heard. 19. A) It uses up much less energy than it does in deep thinking. B) It remains inactive without burning calories noticeably. C) It continues to burn up calories to help us stay in shape. D) It consumes :almost a quarter of the bodys total energy. 6 j 20. A) Much of the consumption has nothing to do with conscious activities. B) It has something to do with the difficulty of the activities in question. C) Energy usage devoted to active learning accounts for a big part of it. D) A significant amount of it is for performing difficult cognitive tasks. 21. A) It is believed to remain basically constant. B) It is a prerequisite for any mental activity. C) It is conducive to relieving mental exhaustion. D) It is thought to be related to food consumption. Questions 22 to 25 are based on the recording you have just heard. 22. A) Job candidates rarely take it seriously. B) Job seekers tend to have a ready answer. C) Job seekers often feel at a loss where to start in answering it. D) Job candidates can respond freely due to its open-ended nature. 23. A) Follow their career coaches guidelines. B) Strive to take control of their narrative. C) Do their best to impress the interviewer. D) Repeat the information on their resume. 24. A) To reflect on their past achievements as well as failures. B) To produce examples for different interview questions. C) To discuss important details they are going to present. D) To identify a broad general strength to elaborate on. 25. A) Getting acquainted with the human resources personnel. B) Finding out why the company provides the job opening. C) Figuring out what benefits the company is able to offer them. D) Tailoring their expectations to the companys long-term goal. 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 centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once. 6 4 Virtually every activity that entails or facilitates in-person human interaction seems to be in the midst of a total meltdown as the coronavirus (nl:lk) outbreak erases Americans desire to travel. Amtrak says bookings are down 50 percent and cancelations are up 300 percent. Hotels in San Francisco are experiencing 26 rates between 70 and 80 percent. Broadway goes dark on Thursday night. Universities, now emptying their campuses, have never tried online learning on this _JJ_. White-collar companies like Amazon, Apple, and the New York Times are asking employees to work from home for the 28 future. But what happens after the coronavirus? In some ways, the answer is: All the old normal stuff. The pandemic ( :k. $JrUt ) will take lives, 29 economies and destroy routines, but it will pass. Americans will never stop going to basketball games. They wont stop going on vacation. Theyll meet to do business. No decentralizing technology so far-not telephones, not television, and not the internet-has dented that human desire to shake hands, despite technologists to the contrary. Yet there are real reasons to think that things will not return to the way they were last week. Small 31 create small societal shifts; big ones change things for good. The New York transit strike of 1980 is _lL with prompting several long-term changes in the city, including bus and bike lanes, and women wearing sports shoes to work. The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 prompted the development of national health care in Europe. Here and now, this might not even be a question of _lL. Its not clear that the cruise industry will _l!_. Or that public transit wont go broke without _lL assistance. The infrastructure might not even be in place to do what we were doing in 2019. A) credentials I) scale B) credited J) strangle C) cumulative K) subtle D) disruptions L) summoned E) federal M) survive F) foreseeable N) vacancy G) predictions 0) wedge H) preference 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 . 6 5 Slow Hope A) Our world is full of-mostly untold-stories of slow hope, driven by the idea that change is possible. They are slow in their unfolding, and they are slow because they come with setbacks. B) At the beginning of time-so goes the myth-humans suffered, shivering in the cold and dark until the titan ( EA.) Prometheus stole fire from the gods. Just as in the myth, technology-first fire and stone tools, and later farming, the steam engine and industry, fossil fuels, chemicals and nuclear power-has allowed us to alter and control the natural world. The myth also reminds us that these advances have come at a price: as a punishment for Prometheus crime, the gods created Pandora, and they gave her a box filled with evils and curses. When Pandoras box was opened, it unleashed swarms of diseases and disasters upon humankind. C) Today we can no longer ignore the ecological curses that we have released in our search for warmth and comfort. In engineering and exploiting and transforming our habitat, we have opened tens of thousands of Pandoras boxes. In recent decades, environmental threats have expanded beyond regional boundaries to have global reach and, most hauntingly, are multiplying at a dizzying rate. On a regular basis, we are reminded that we are running out of time. Year after year, faster and faster, consumption outpaces the biological capacity of our planet. Stories of accelerated catastrophe multiply. We fear the breakdown of the electric grid, the end of non-renewable resources, the expansion of deserts, the loss of islands, and the pollution of our air and water. D) Acceleration is the signature of our time. Populations and economic activity grew slowly for much of human history. For thousands of years and well into early modem times, world economies saw no growth at all, but from around the mid-l 9th century and again, in particular, since the mid-20th, the real GDP has increased at an enormous speed, and so has human consumption. In the Middle Ages, households in Central Europe might have owned fewer than 30 objects on average; in 1900, this number had increased to 400, and in 2020 to 15,000. The acceleration of human production, consumption and travel has changed the animate and inanimate spheres. It has echoed through natural processes on which humans depend. Species extinction, deforestation, damming of rivers, occurrence of floods, the depletion of ozone, the degradation of ocean systems and many other areas are all experiencing acceleration. If represented graphically, the curve for all these changes looks rather like that well-known hockey stick: with little change over millennia ( f-Jf-) and a dramatic upswing over the past decades. E) Some of todays narratives about the future seem to suggest that we too, like Prometheus, will be saved by a new Hercules, a divine engineer, someone who will mastermind, manoeuvre and manipulate our planet. They suggest that geoengineering, cold fusion or faster-than-light spaceships might transcend once and for all the terrestrial constraints of rising temperatures, lack of energy, scarcity of food, lack of space, mountains of waste, polluted water-you name it. 6 6 F) Yet, if we envisage our salvation to come from a deus ex machina (NF-111 :t.;tf), from a divine engineer or a tech solutionist who will miraculously conjure up a new source of energy or another cure-all with revolutionary potency, we might be looking in the wrong place. The fact that we now imagine our planet as a whole does not mean that the rescue of our planet will come with one big global stroke of genius and technology. It will more likely come by many small acts. Global heating and environmental degradation are not technological problems. They are highly political issues that are informed by powerful interests. Moreover, if history is a guide, then we can assume that any major transformations will once again be followed by a huge set of unintended consequences. So what do we do? G) This much is clear: we need to find ways that help us flatten the hockey-stick curves that reflect our ever-faster pace of ecological destruction and social acceleration. If we acknowledge that human manipulation of the Earth has been a destructive force, we can also imagine that human endeavours can help us build a less destructive world in the centuries to come. We might keep making mistakes. But we will also keep learning from our mistakes. H) To counter the fears of disaster, we need to identify stories, visions and actions that work quietly towards a more hopeful future. Instead of one big narrative, a story of unexpected rescue by a larger-than-life hero, we need multiple stories: we need stories, not only of what Rob Nixon of Princeton University has called the slow violence of environmental degradation ( that is, the damage that is often invisible at first and develops slowly and gradually), but also stories of what I call slow hope . I) We need an acknowledgement of our present ecological plight but also a language of positive change, visions of a better future. In The Principle of Hope (1954-1959), Ernst Bloch, one of the leading philosophers of the future, wrote that the most tragic form of loss . is the loss of the capacity to imagine that things could be different . We need to identify visions